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Friday, August 22, 2008 Updated at 22 August 2008 1:08 Moscow Time.

The Moscow Times » Issue 2246 » News in Brief

News in Brief

24 July 2001No Gay Parade MOSCOW (AP) — The Mayor’s Office on Monday harshly rebuffed requests for a permission to hold a Gay Pride parade, saying such an event would amount to ""propaganda of dissipation."" With various festive parades a typical sight in Moscow during holidays, the office of Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov said it has been flooded by requests to allow a Gay Pride parade. The latest one asked for a parade to be held on City Day this fall, when various other groups march across downtown Moscow. Luzhkov’s press service issued a stern statement saying that ""the city government will not allow holding this march in Moscow on City Day or on any other day because such demonstrations outrage the majority of the capital’s population, are in effect propaganda of dissipation and force upon society unacceptable norms of behavior."" Homosexuality was a crime punishable by prison time in the Soviet era. Gay culture grown in Moscow and other large cities in the past decade, but remains frowned upon by most of the population.

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