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Recalling the events of 2012


JANUARY
  • Figure skater Johnny Weir married his Russian boyfriend
  • The Pope declared same-sex marriage a threat for humanity
  • Saint-Petersburg's City court declared just and unjust the ban on gay pride on the same day
  • The President of Ecuador appointed an open lesbian for the post of Health minister

FEBRUARY
  • Kostroma City Legislature quietly approved the law that banned "Homopropaganda"
  • Russian Foreign Office defends homophobic laws - "we care for children"
  • Gay icon Whitney Houston passed away. She was 48 years old
  • Gay drama "Keep the lights on" won the Teddy grand-prix of the Berlin Cinema Festival

  • Thai gay couple made the world's longest kiss

MARCH
  • Anti-gay law signed by the Governor of Saint-Petersburg
  • Alexander Lukashenko: "Better to be a dictator than a "queer"
  • New Nazis in Chile cruelly battered gay and carved a swastika
  • Unidentified people assaulted the arts exhibition of LGBT painters in Petersburg
  • Novosibirsk deputies submitted the drat law "Don't say gay" to the State Duma

APRIL
  • Following the cruel death of a young gay, Chile adopted the law that banned discrimination
  • The Highest Council of the Russian Orthodox Church declared gays and lesbians as "enemies of the faith"
  • Deputy Head of the All-Russian TV and Radio Company: "Hearts of gays should be burned and buried"
  • Public opinion fund (FOM): 86% of Russians "do not know" any gay and 51% of respondents condemn gays

MAY
  • Saint-Petersburg Labour Day (May 1) Procession: LGBT Activists Arrested Roughly
  • UN Human Rights High Commissioner: We have to fight against hatred and not with homosexual love
  • Trans-sexual Genna Talakova did not get to the finals of the Miss Universe but in any case she won
  • Gay superhero of People X comics proposed marriage to his boyfriend

JUNE
  • The US Supreme Court equalized the rights of gay couples with straight ones
  • Super hero's coming out: The Green Lantern turned out to be a gay
  • Russian heterosexuals got united into Alliance to support gays
  • Dutch gays and lesbians can marry in church
  • German Foreign ministry warned LGBT tourists to be cautious in Russia

JULY
  • News anchor Anderson Cooper: The fact is that I'm gay
  • Rapper Frank Ocean revealed that his first love was a man
  • Saint-Petersburg: European March "No to Homophobia" Motto Banned by Authorities
  • Russian Health minister: Protect Children from Pathological Homosexuality
  • For the first time American military were allowed to join Gay-pride in army uniforms

AUGUST
  • Six open lesbians became the Olympics champions
  • Madonna backed Russian gay community during her show in Saint-Petersburg while Milonov threatened to complain to the General Prosecutor's Office
  • Moscow City Court: No Gay Prides for 100 years
  • Brasil: First gay marriage contracted without involvement of the court
  • The words "gay" and "goluboy" under censure on Russian federal TV

SEPTEMBER
  • Mr. Gay Denmark made Coming out as a queer muslim
  • Arkhangelsk authorities silenced gays: The Constitution is not in effect due to "homopropaganda"
  • Brandi Carlile married her girlfriend
  • Francois Hollande from the UN rostrum called for universal decriminalization of homosexuality

OCTOBER
  • Nationalists attacked gay club in Moscow on the Coming out day
  • PAÑÅ noted "violation of LGBT rights" in its resolution on Russia
  • Tom Ford and his partner Richard Buckley became daddies - got a son
  • Orlando Cruz, the 4th on the World's Boxing Rating, made Coming out

NOVEMBER
  • Draft law on legalization of same-sex marriage was approved in France
  • Maine, Maryland and Washington finally legalized same-sex marriage
  • Minnesota said No to homophobic amendment
  • Suicide of a gay from Russia in Zurich should be investigated: Amnesty International
  • UN Committee against torture: Russian authorities must publicly condemn violation against gays and lesbians

DECEMBER
  • Dmitry Medvedev on draft federal law "Don't say gay": Not all areas of life should be regulated by law
  • Kaliningrad region authority approved in the first reading amendments that ban homopropaganda
  • Milonov was given "Golden Enema" prize for "tireless propaganda of homosexuality"
  • Moldova enforced fines for discrimination of homosexuals
  • State Duma's Council postponed vote on prohibition of homopropaganda on the federal level

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