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Squares - our palettes
On Gogolevsky Boulevard in Moscow, activists hung photos of the exhibition "To be themselves: Stories of LGBT Teenage." This was reported on the photo exhibition page.
“Initially, this was supposed to happen in the Punetum cultural center on Tverskaya, then in the Red Square gallery at the electric factory, but the police both fraught with the event,” the message says. Passers -by stop, look, read.
On the eve of LGBT activists announced the intention to hold a street photo exhibition on Saturday in the center of Moscow . “If a photo exhibition cannot be held in galleries - it will be everywhere!” The organizers write. “Photos and stories of adolescents will be published on our website, already printed photos - posted in urban space. In addition, we will print photos on stickers - and then the whole city will turn into our gallery.”
"At the exhibition, you can see photos and get acquainted with the stories of those who were not afraid to tell about their lives. Today, Russian LGBT teenage are often forced to live a double life, it is more difficult for them to find friends, they often become victims of violence," the exhibition announced. Photos of minor adolescents will be with closed faces, those over 18 years old - with open.
The opening of a photo exhibition in the Red Square gallery at the electric factory was torn by the opening of a photo exhibition on Friday. On Wednesday and Thursday, the police came to the mother of the curator of the exhibition of Tari Polyakova. The owner of the gallery spent almost the whole day in the police department. There they demanded to abandon the exhibition, threatening problems with the law. As a result, the organizers were forced to cancel the discovery. Earlier, due to the pressure of the authorities, they were refused by another private gallery.
In April 2014, in Moscow, “Orthodox activists” and the police thwarted the show “Children-404” about LGBT teenage . In September, Mger turned to Roskomnadzor and the Prosecutor General’s Office demanding to block the LGBT teenage communities in social networks.
On March 25, the Oktyabrsky District Court of St. Petersburg in the absence of the defendants satisfied the prosecutor’s claim for blocking the Children-404 community on the VKontakte social network. Now Roskomnadzor should include the group’s website in the register of prohibited sites and block the page.
