Russian LGBT Activist Under House Arrest is Facing New Charges

Expand Illustration reading, "Family is where love is. Support LGBT+ families.” © 2019 Yulia Tsvetkova Russian feminist and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) activist Yulia Tsvetkova, already under house arrest for two months on bogus charges of pornography distribution, faces new charges of allegedly violating Russia’s “gay propaganda” law. In the new charges, police claim Tsvetkova, 26, violated the country’s notorious “gay propaganda” law by posting on social media her drawing, depicting two same-sex couples with children and the caption “Family is where love is. Support LGBT+…

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