"…We do not to spit in the faces and not hunting gays! We don’t think that homosexual is a disease, which comes apart from peoples will. Not without reason God punished Sodom, he wouldn’t punish people for having a disease" - said head of Jew community of Saint-Petersburg Mark Grubarg on press-conference in Synagogue of Saint-Petersburg.
It was his answer to students question Grubard and chief rabbi Menehem-Mendel Pevzner didn’t say a word about grooving reformation in the Judaism which doesn’t take gays as sinners. Many rabbis from different countries even marry gays and lesbians, including Moscow.
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Tuesday 20 November 2007
Monday 15 October 2007
Survey: sex is at the bottom of Russian priorities
2007/10/15. According to a survey conducted by 'Levada-Center', Russians rate sexual problems in 20th place. Sexual and relationship problems, fashion, theatre and classical music are low interest subjects at the end of a list of 23 important life questions. These statistics are provided from a survey conducted by 'Levada Analytical Centre' from 21st-25th Sepember 2007. That survey shows that Russians are mostly interested in cinema, nature and news. Finding 'sex' in last place on the list is questionable. In the middle of last week the Deputy of the Minister of Culture, Pavel Pazigailo, author of the 'sex and pornography law', said that out of every 1000 letters received by the Ministry 900 demand limits to eroticism in the media. It's strange that on one hand sex is not interesting for Russians but on the other hand they want it removed from public media.
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Tuesday 21 August 2007
Russian basketball team competes in an international championship in London
14 Russian lesbians arrived in London for the championship which was held from the 21st to 29th August. Both male and female teams from different countries competed.
The lesbian team 'A-Mega' from Saint Petersburg received a special invitation from the 'London Cruisers' team. Both teams met for the first time at the GLBT 'Our Games' in the summer of 2006.
In 2006 there were only 5 players but now it's a packed team of 11 players. After returning
from the championship 'A-Mega' began training for the GLBT 'Eurogames' to be held in Barcelona.
You can contact the 'A-Mega' trainer Inessa Gromova by email ness@a-mega.com.
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The lesbian team 'A-Mega' from Saint Petersburg received a special invitation from the 'London Cruisers' team. Both teams met for the first time at the GLBT 'Our Games' in the summer of 2006.
In 2006 there were only 5 players but now it's a packed team of 11 players. After returning
from the championship 'A-Mega' began training for the GLBT 'Eurogames' to be held in Barcelona.
You can contact the 'A-Mega' trainer Inessa Gromova by email ness@a-mega.com.
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Wednesday 8 August 2007
Gay.Ru is the most quoted gay-site in Russia
Gay.ru is rated number 1 as the most quoted site by Russian gay blogs. According to search engine Yandex, Gay.ru is rated number 25 in all Russian blogs. In the last 6 months it has moved up the ratings and it is now behind Radio ‘Exo Moskvi’. Gay.ru is more popular than well known sites such as ‘Sport-express’ and ‘Strana.ru’. The next closest gay page is rated number 282.
Gay.ru is also rated number 1 by Russian gay pages with an extremely high quote rate.
This year we celebrated our 10th anniversary. In 1997 we were named the most informative gay page in Russia by ‘Planet Internet’ magazine. In 1998 we featured among the best internet projects by the same magazine. In 2000 Gay.ru was included in the list of best projects with sexual content and the same year we received the award for Best Website We have also been named in ratings done by KommersantMoney (2000), Afisha (2000,2001,2004), Om (2004) and others.
Gay.ru has been a member of IGLA-Europe since 2001, IGLIO (youth gay and lesbian organization) since 2003 and a member of International Forum HKO working on preventing AIDS in Russia since 2003.
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Gay.ru is also rated number 1 by Russian gay pages with an extremely high quote rate.
This year we celebrated our 10th anniversary. In 1997 we were named the most informative gay page in Russia by ‘Planet Internet’ magazine. In 1998 we featured among the best internet projects by the same magazine. In 2000 Gay.ru was included in the list of best projects with sexual content and the same year we received the award for Best Website We have also been named in ratings done by KommersantMoney (2000), Afisha (2000,2001,2004), Om (2004) and others.
Gay.ru has been a member of IGLA-Europe since 2001, IGLIO (youth gay and lesbian organization) since 2003 and a member of International Forum HKO working on preventing AIDS in Russia since 2003.
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Wednesday 6 June 2007
The history of Gay.Ru
Gay.Ru, a non-for-profit Moscow-based gay, lesbian and transgender group has existed since 1996. It started as a discussion group under the name Fido7.Ru.Sex.Gay in the amateur messaging network FIDO. This was the first ever forum where Russian-speaking gays could discuss their problems.
Over five years Gay.Ru has developed into an established and recognized Russian gay and lesbian center (Russian National GLBT Center "Together"). It acts as the clearing house for lesbian and gay groups scattered across the country. We keep contacts with all existing gay, lesbian, and AIDS organizations in Russia and maintain on-going correspondence and reporting to international gay and lesbian organizations, including ILGA, IGLYO and ILGHRC. We collect and publish all information on gay and lesbian activities in all republics of the former USSR, we disseminate information on lesbian and gay rights in domestic and international context, legal developments as applied to gay issues, legislation and case law of international courts. We have established a sort of a virtual gay community where people can find support and assistance. We are supported in our endeavors by the prominent Russian scholar and researcher in the area of sexuality and homosexuality Professor Igor S. Kon.
Our web-site features more than 80,000 articles and documents in Russian and 500 in English and updates daily. Gay.ru is visited by more than three million visitors yearly or over 40,000 hits a day, including weekends. We made Gay.Ru a place where our gay, lesbian, and questioning visitors can find such vitally important information as psychological aspects of coming out, coping with homophobia, safer-sex techniques; read life stories of fellow gays and lesbians and receive a response to their questions.
Gay.Ru has never received an official registration with the competent Russian authorities till 2002. On two occasions, in 1999 and in 2000, our lawyer Nikita Ivanov filed the required foundation documents for the registration of a non-profit association under the name Rainbow Sphere with the Moscow city department of justice, but both times the registration was refused on allegedly formal grounds. Finally, in 2002 we obtained an official registration as "Просветительский центр Я+Я", whis is promoted in English as Russian National GLBT Center "Together".
Our recent projects within Gay.ru include a daily updated news feed offering international gay news in Russian to our readers, "lesbi.ru" - our sister site for the lesbian women, "365.gay.ru" - a calendar to commemorate dates of the gay history, "moscow.gay.ru" - a guide to gay Moscow, and many more.
We have a permanent office in Moscow, 15 employees and more than 50 volunteers both in Russia and abroad. Our web activities are self-sustainable, we use the profit from Internet e-business (such as web design, hosting and banner exchange networks) and mail order sales to fund our web-site.
2000-2007,
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Over five years Gay.Ru has developed into an established and recognized Russian gay and lesbian center (Russian National GLBT Center "Together"). It acts as the clearing house for lesbian and gay groups scattered across the country. We keep contacts with all existing gay, lesbian, and AIDS organizations in Russia and maintain on-going correspondence and reporting to international gay and lesbian organizations, including ILGA, IGLYO and ILGHRC. We collect and publish all information on gay and lesbian activities in all republics of the former USSR, we disseminate information on lesbian and gay rights in domestic and international context, legal developments as applied to gay issues, legislation and case law of international courts. We have established a sort of a virtual gay community where people can find support and assistance. We are supported in our endeavors by the prominent Russian scholar and researcher in the area of sexuality and homosexuality Professor Igor S. Kon.
Our web-site features more than 80,000 articles and documents in Russian and 500 in English and updates daily. Gay.ru is visited by more than three million visitors yearly or over 40,000 hits a day, including weekends. We made Gay.Ru a place where our gay, lesbian, and questioning visitors can find such vitally important information as psychological aspects of coming out, coping with homophobia, safer-sex techniques; read life stories of fellow gays and lesbians and receive a response to their questions.
Gay.Ru has never received an official registration with the competent Russian authorities till 2002. On two occasions, in 1999 and in 2000, our lawyer Nikita Ivanov filed the required foundation documents for the registration of a non-profit association under the name Rainbow Sphere with the Moscow city department of justice, but both times the registration was refused on allegedly formal grounds. Finally, in 2002 we obtained an official registration as "Просветительский центр Я+Я", whis is promoted in English as Russian National GLBT Center "Together".
Our recent projects within Gay.ru include a daily updated news feed offering international gay news in Russian to our readers, "lesbi.ru" - our sister site for the lesbian women, "365.gay.ru" - a calendar to commemorate dates of the gay history, "moscow.gay.ru" - a guide to gay Moscow, and many more.
We have a permanent office in Moscow, 15 employees and more than 50 volunteers both in Russia and abroad. Our web activities are self-sustainable, we use the profit from Internet e-business (such as web design, hosting and banner exchange networks) and mail order sales to fund our web-site.
2000-2007,
http://english.gay.ru
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