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Moldovan police stood by and watched as nationalists attacked gay pride marchers last weekend. Oh, please! Don't act like you're surprised to hear of anti-gay repression in a post-Soviet state. [UK Gay News]

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There's some gay drama in Moldova, where Chisinau mayor Dorin Chirtoaca has banned this Sunday's gay pride march. Like resistant and tenacious activists, however, the homos refuse to go-go: "According to the new Moldovan law on public manifestations, local authorities have no right to prohibit a public manifestation, [organizers] say. If the authorities have proof that there could be serious trouble at an event like Gay Pride march, then it is the decision of a court of law as to any ban." [UK Gay News]

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Moldovan Govt. Must Ensure Gay Rights

Blasted For Pride Ban

There's some gay drama in the small European nation of Moldova, where authorities stopped a gay pride event in 2006. Claiming such an event would cause a public disruption, officials sent coppers to break up the queer fun, which included laying flowers at the Monument to the Victims of Repression.

Gay rights activists brought the government to court, but lost. Now, after reviewing the facts, the Parliamentary Assembly of of the Council of Europe resolved that the government must "ensure full respect of the fundamental rights of all minorities".

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