‘I think this PR campaign is associated with the forthcoming election to the Moscow City Duma...’ said a famous Russian scientist Igor Kon in comments to Gay.ru on calls from Oleg Mitvol, Prefect of Moscow’s Northern District, to shut down gay clubs.
‘...Aggressive homophobic rhetoric is a substitute for political fighting and a means to distract voters from the real problems of city life’ said Kon whose scientific works on problems of gender and sexuality are highly reputed by the global scientific community.
This comment comes in the aftermath of support Mitvol’s initiative received from conservative politicians amid the plans to shut down gay clubs. In the Prefect’s opinion the clubs visited by homosexuals ‘promote moral decay and become the source of disturbances’.