The Russian authorities need to address a deteriorating situation of widespread and concerted abuse against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people and activists. The authorities’ failure to act, and some officials’ homophobic comments, expose LGBT people to further harassment and violence and embolden the attackers. Movements like Occupy Peadophilia use the ‘protection of children’ as a mask for their homophobic and criminal attacks on the LGBT community. These attacks are hate crimes and are occurring beneath the context of complete impunity. The violence needs to be denounced publicly by Russian authorities and the situation needs to be fixed immediately.
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