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Odoreida

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Fri Mar 10, 2017, 10:13 PM Mar 2017

Russian mayor declares his town a 'gay-free zone' and expels LGBT activists trying to gain entry

Russian mayor declares his town a 'gay-free zone' and expels LGBT activists trying to gain entry
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4300638/Russian-mayor-declares-town-gay-free-zone.html

A Russian mayor has declared his town - bordering the European Union - a 'gay-free zone' with officials in other districts close to Vladimir Putin's home city of St Petersburg enthusiastically following suit.

'They won't get here, even from the West,' boasted Sergey Davydov, who runs Svetogorsk, which is on the frontier with Finland.

His prejudiced stance has led to online ridicule from critics, with the former military commissar being branded a 'clown' and an 'idiot' for supposing he has no homosexual people among a population of 15,000.

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More of Russia being Russia.

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Russian mayor declares his town a 'gay-free zone' and expels LGBT activists trying to gain entry (Original Post) Odoreida Mar 2017 OP
He is said to have put in the ban when a local bakery sold penis-shaped lollipops CurtEastPoint Mar 2017 #1
Yeah because when I think of vacation destinations, Svetogorsk is usually first on my list! Initech Mar 2017 #2
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