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Moscow’s mayor vowed Monday never to allow a gay-rights parade, calling such events “satanic,” but activists said they would defy a city ban.
Yury Luzhkov and city authorities barred activists from staging a parade last year, citing the threat of violence. Activists ignored the ban and were attacked by right-wing protesters and detained by police.
Luzhkov lambasted gay and lesbian groups at a Kremlin event Monday. Meanwhile, Russian gay activists said they were challenging the city’s ban in an appeal to the European Court for Human Rights, and pledged to hold a similar march in late May.
