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22 February 2006, 17:51Luzhkov calls a gay parade in Moscow inadmissible even if permitted by Paris and Berlin mayors
Berlin, February 22, Interfax - Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov has again spoken strongly against holding a gay parade in the Russian capital.
An Interfax correspondent reports that at the press conference held by the mayors of Paris, London, Berlin and Moscow on Wednesday, a German journalist stated that the prosecution of homosexuality had been prohibited in Germany since 1993, and at least two of Luzhkov’s counterparts (Paris Mayor Bertrand Delanoe and Berlin Mayor Klaus Wowereit - IF) ‘are open homosexuals’, while Luzhkov was against holding a gay parade.
In his response the mayor of Moscow said, first, that he did not receive any proposal for holding a gay parade and, secondly, even if he received it he would just ban it, as he did not want ‘to provoke society which is against such a phenomenon in life’.
Luzhkov explained that both the leadership of all the confessions and the public came out against the holding a parade of gays and lesbians in the Russian capital. ‘If it was held in Moscow its participants would expose themselves to a great danger, as many could become victims of the negative attitude of the Muscovites’, the mayor stated.
‘Therefore, I will not permit such parades’, Luzhkov said. He also expressed his own attitude, saying, ‘My philosophy is my negative attitude to these phenomena, as I believe them to be unnatural to the human nature, though I try to be tolerant to whatever develops in human society’. |
