Police raid Moscow gay clubs, photograph passports of patrons inside

I wonder if the alleged leftists of Lemmy will keep cheering to this.

As a "leftist" why should I cheer for an oppressive oligarchy? That makes no sense.
I think it's very sad what's happening there. And so wrong. LGBTQI people don't harm anyone.
- It’s a reference to the fascists on hexbear and their friends, who all call themselves left and make up a large part of Lemmy. For them, left is anything that’s anti-USA.
- They mean the tankies, of whom there is a large population on Lemmy. They indeed do not make sense.
  They're less of them on beehaw than elsewhere. Moreso to be found in lemmygrad and lemmy.ml.
Could you elaborate?
- He's talking about the tankies that keep defending a fascist regime with a colonialist imperialistic mindset. My prediction is that either they are raging homophobes themselves like papa Stalin or they will ignore it.
- I guess he thinks left=stanilist.
  Sounds like people who think that socialism is when the government does stuff.
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgiC8YfytDw
- There are a lot of people/instances/admins on lemmy who love everything authoritarian fascist Putin does, but call themselves left.
You could actually look and see that it’s firmly condemned.
https://hexbear.net/post/1232126
- I avoid visiting fascist sites, I had enough of that when I selfhosted, and before I blocked hexbear, and saw the cheerleading for civilians being bombed in Ukraine. But good to know they are not totally lost.
- People in the commends saying they miss the URSS like it used to be better then? What lol
- You could actually look and see that it’s firmly condemned.
  Yeah but I'm doomer lolling so hard at the "is this brand new or was Russia always queerphobic".
  We've been warning about this for years, but they've been way too busy being too edgy and contrarian to notice.
- Why can't I see any comments there? I can see the posts, but it says they all have 0 comments?

Russia outlaws ‘international LGBT public movement’ as extremist - 30 Nov 2023 - The Guardian

Russia’s supreme court has outlawed what it called an “international LGBT public movement” as extremist, in a landmark ruling that representatives of gay and transgender people warn will lead to arrests and prosecutions of the already repressed LGBTQ+ community.

Human rights activists have said the vague wording of the ruling that targets the “international LGBT public movement” allows Russian authorities to persecute any individual or organisation it considers to be part of the “movement”.

“Even though there is no such thing as an international LGBT movement, it is clear that all legal activities of LGBT organisations will be impossible in Russia,” said Igor Kochetkov, the head of the rights group Russian LGBT Network.

I bet Putler just wanted new people he can throw into the meatgrinder

🤖 I'm a bot that provides automatic summaries for articles: ::: spoiler Click here to see the summary Police in Moscow have raided several gay clubs, local media report, a day after Russia's Supreme Court moved to outlaw the "LGBT movement".

Club goers were briefly held and their passports were photographed during the raids late on Friday, Telegram channel Ostorozhno Novosti said.

"In the middle of the party, the music was stopped, and [police] began going into the lounges", one eyewitness told the outlet, adding that foreigners were also present at the gathering in central Moscow.

The raids came a day after Russia's Supreme Court declared what it described as the "LGBT public movement" an extremist organisation and banned its activities across the country.

In recent years the country's LGBT community has come under increasing pressure from the authorities, says the BBC's Steve Rosenberg in Moscow.

Earlier this month, one Russian TV channel discoloured a rainbow in a South Korean pop video, to avoid being accused of violating the "gay propaganda" law.

Saved 51% of original text. :::