Screenshot of a video from the DW YouTube channel. Fair use. Apart from that, because of the Supreme Court's decision, the oldest gay club, called The Central Station, is shutting down in Saint Petersburg. As one of the clubs visitors told the telegram channel Caution, Moscow:.
In the middle of the party, they stopped the music and [police] began to enter the halls. There were also citizens of other countries at the party.
On the way out they took photographs of passports without permission to do so. The scheme was familiar; this is how similar clubs in Saint Petersburg were closed. Someone was panicking. This is not a simple post, this is a cry for help.
We do not have money to have all these people. Please help. Many Russian opposition media have colored their logos in rainbow colors. Some of them lost subscribers because of this step of solidarity. Lentach, [a channel that's more humor focussed than opposition media], lost the highest number of subscribers: 27 We have you, and you have us, and there are a huge number of people around who accept and love you β just as you are.
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