A court in the central Russian city of Nizhny Novgorod has jailed a woman for wearing rainbow earrings, the human rights group Egida reported late Wednesday, marking the second case of its kind after Russia banned the so-called “LGBT movement” as an “extremist” organization in November. According to Egida, law enforcement agents tasked with combating “extremism” detained the woman after a group of “aggressive people” approached her and her friend at a local cafe and filmed them on camera.
I keep being berated as “chauvinist” to stand in solidarity with [not ] country’s queer liberation movement to
So I don’t know how I’m supposed to feel without offending someone somewhere with my “paternal” concerns.