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Moscow mayor against Gay Pride parade · 2007-03-03 15:50
Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov publicly spoke against homosexuality calling it "wrong and unusual" in a London news conference attended by his Paris and Berlin counterparts, both of them gay.
Luzhkov, in the U.K. capital for a meeting of the leaders of Europe's four largest cities, also repeated his opposition to a Gay Pride parade planned for May 27 in Moscow. He has called such a march "satanic". Last year's Moscow Gay Pride parade, held in defiance of a ban, was broken up by police.
"Through the gay parade you promote some uncertain people and it becomes an invitation to acquire this quality of the sexual minorities," Luzhkov said at the briefing with the mayors of London, Paris and Berlin.
The Moscow mayor, in office since 1992, conceded that Paris Mayor Bertrand Delanoe and Berlin Mayor Klaus Wowereit disagreed with his views when they met with London Mayor Ken Livingstone, a longtime supporter of gays and lesbians, Mosnews informs.
The mayors discussed the issue "in a peaceful and calm way," Delanoe said. "We have to look at equality of rights, and that leads us to combat every form of discrimination or stigmatizing of individuals because of their sex, their religion, color of their skin or their personal identity," he said.
Livingstone and Wowereit didn't comment publicly on Luzhkov's views.
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