Security forces carried out a raid at a party in Kamensk-Uralsky, a city in Sverdlovsk region in the Urals. This was reported by TASS, citing a source within the security services.
“In Kamensk-Uralsky, in the Second Workers’ Settlement, on Second Polevaya Street, in the early hours of Saturday, the ‘Russian Community’ and law enforcement stopped LGBT obscurantism. For an ‘exciting journey into the past’ at a ‘90s-themed’ party, the organisers had invited drag performers,” TASS quoted its source as saying.
In total, security officers detained 26 people. They were released after fingerprinting and inspection. A protocol was drawn up against the “organiser” for “LGBTQ propaganda” (Article 6.21 of the Administrative Offences Code).
The TASS source added that “the issue of initiating a criminal case” under the article on organising the activities of an extremist organisation (Part 1, Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code) is under consideration.
Asya Sokolova for OVD-Info
The adoption of the “LGBT propaganda” law marked not only widespread censorship but also intensified repression against LGBTQ people and the organisations that support them. With the designation of the “International LGBT Movement” as an “extremist organisation,” this pressure has increased once again.
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