The organizers of the gay parade in Arkhangelsk sued the city administration

The day before, the activists of the Moscow gay pride received official refusals from the Arkhangelsk administration in the coordination of three public events in the city center, the website Gayrussia.ru reports.

Already today, the organizers filed a complaint with the Oktyabrsky District Court of Arkhangelsk at the city hall. LGBT activists intend to appeal all three prohibitions of the administration: to hold the Arkhangelsk gay parade in support of tolerant relations and compliance with the rights and freedoms of persons of homosexual orientation and gender minorities in Russia, planned on August 2; a rally with the aim of a wide public distribution of the decision of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation in the case of verification of the constitutionality of the Federal Law on the prohibition of propaganda of non -traditional sexual relations among minors; A rally call for legalization in Russia of same -sex marriages planned on August 3 and 4.

Recall that the mayor of Arkhangelsk Viktor Pavlenko in early July publicly stated that he would allow sex minorities to hold the procession on the day of the celebration of the 85th anniversary of the Airborne Forces “as a discharge”. Taking advantage of the “generosity” of the head of the city, the LGBT activists applied to the Arkhangelsk administration with a request to allow them to “ go through the procession on August 2 from 13 to 14 hours on the roadway of the North Dvina embankment ” . Filed an activists of the application and for two more events. But, despite the promises and guarantees of the mayor of the city, the organizers received official refusals. In them, the authorities referred to the federal law on the ban on the propaganda of non -traditional sexual relations, inviting the organizers themselves to find a place to hold their shares.

As the founder of the Moscow Gay-Praida, Nikolai Alekseev , told Gayrussia.ru, they will seek recognition of the decisions of the Arkhangelsk city hall illegal and are ready to bring the case to the European Court of Human Rights, if necessary.

Over the past three years, the Arkhangelsk administration has already banned several dozen public events of the LGBT community, each time referring to regional or federal laws on the ban on gay propaganda. Several complaints about these refusals are already waiting for their consideration in the European Court of Human Rights.