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This last trait has, it seems, even infiltrated student groups with a supposed commitment to charity. Thanks to the lofty claims these organizations parade on posters, purchasers are led to believe that all proceeds from the highly priced tickets are donated. However, with an interpretation of honesty that Bill Clinton...
Not so at Alexeyev's march. There, an estimated 30 protesters unwrapped rainbow banners and chanted for less than half a minute before Moscow riot police rounded up and arrested everyone involved. Alexeyev, who came to the parade accompanied by a man in a bride's dress, was swiftly carried...
The fear is pervasive. In Moscow, Viktor, 28, says, "My family does not know I am gay. I am open about it to anyone that asks, but I would never tell my parents. I don't know what my mother would do, but I know my father openly hates homosexuals...
If Alexeyev had hoped that the Eurovision finals would help his cause, he was wrong. The events were treated with an awkward silence from Eurovision organizers. The Dutch team had threatened to pull out of the competition if the parade was banned, but the team did not qualify for the...
Nevertheless, Alexeyev tries to find a silver lining to the suppression of his march. "We changed the location of the march at the last minute so that we wouldn't be attacked by anti-gay groups like previous years," he says. "This is the first year that no one was...