Source: HRO.org (info), 09/02/12 

· St. Petersburg & Leningrad region  · Sexual minorities 

The well-known British actor and writer Stephen Fry has condemned the passing by the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg of a bill that seeks to ban what the bill calls “propaganda of homosexuality and paedophilia”. In his Twitter account (8 February) Stephen Fry describes the initiators and supporters of the bill as “fantastical monsters” and asks whether, for example, talking about Tchaikovsky will now be banned. [Read more]