Russia’s Anti-Gay Bill Author: LGBT Activists Deserve Violence
The author of Russia’s now infamous and extremely controversial "homosexual propaganda" bill, which aims to silence the country’s LGBT community, says that some LGBT activists are to blame for violent attacks against them, Russia’s St. Petersburg Times reports.
The newspaper reports on an incident where Libertarian Party activist Dmitry Chizhevsky lost one of his eyes after an attack on an LGBT community center on Nov 3. Chizhevsky blames politicians, like Yelen Mizulina, Irina Yarovaya and Vitaly Milonov, the author of the anti-gay bill, for LGBT violence by inciting hatred towards the LGBT community.
But Milonov sees things differently and replied to Chizhevsky’s accusations by saying LGBT organizations were responsible for the attack, claiming the incident may "have been an act of provocation to compromise anti-LGBT activists," the St. Petersburg Times writes. Milonov says some anti-gay activists are provoked by LGBT activists’ "continuously eccentric escapades, rudeness and acts of provocation."
"Unfortunately, not everybody manages to stay calm, some behave inappropriately," Milonov told the Fontanka.ru website on Nov. 6, according to the St. Petersburg Times. "But to say that some of our activists went with pneumatic guns to a homosexual den... It’s a great pity that the guy got it in the eye, but I think it was a planned act of provocation."
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