Recalling the events of 2012
JANUARY
FEBRUARY
MARCH
APRIL
MAY
JUNE
JULY
AUGUST
SEPTEMBER
OCTOBER
NOVEMBER
DECEMBER
English translation presented by Yerdna Bananes
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31 Mar. 2018
Putin decorated Milonov - Orthodox crusader against gay people - with the Order of Saint Vladimir for "Good, Honor and Glory"
13 Sep. 2015
Female team from Moscow won the IGLFA European Championship III
18 Jun. 2015
Moscow’s Chief Rabbi about gays: "would not hang myself, but would support those who do so"
9 Jun. 2015
[VIDEO] Those who violated the Silence Day action promised to do the same to everyone who supports LGBT
20 Apr. 2015
Tomsk to have the first "Siberian Athens" - LGBT competition in 3 sports
19 Apr. 2015
Single pickets in Saint Petersburg to support LGBT teenagers
17 Apr. 2015
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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
English translation presented by Yerdna Bananes
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