Recalling the events of 2012
JANUARY
FEBRUARY
MARCH
APRIL
MAY
JUNE
JULY
AUGUST
SEPTEMBER
OCTOBER
NOVEMBER
DECEMBER
English translation presented by Yerdna Bananes
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
