Last year around this time, we posted Sergey Chernov’s interview with filmmaker John Cameron Mitchell when he was a guest at the Side by Side International LGBT Film Festival in Saint Petersburg. The focus of their conversation was the vigorous attempt on the part of the local authorities to close the festival down. Yesterday we received [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘homophobia’
July 17, 2009
Petersburg TV: Homosexuality Is An “Abomination”
TV’s ‘Bridge of Freedom’ Describes Gays as ‘Abomination’
By Sergey Chernov
St. Petersburg Times
July 14, 2009
A chief editor at a local television channel called homosexuality an “abomination” in a caustic reply to an open letter written by an insulted viewer. The viewer, St. Petersburg resident Maria Yefremenkova, had earlier held a one-woman protest against what she described [...]
October 6, 2008
John Cameron Mitchell: OMON Backwards Spells ‘HOMO’
Last week, in continuation of what threatens to become a proud Petersburg tradition, city fire inspectors closed down The Place and Sochi, two nightclubs that had been scheduled to host the Side by Side International LGBT Film Festival. In the wake of these events and as the festival went underground (another proud Petersburg tradition) at [...]
October 2, 2008
Official Gay Bashing in Petersburg: LGBT Film Festival Closed by Fire Inspectors
Gay Festival Hit by Fire Inspection
The St. Petersburg Times
Issue #1413 (77)
Friday, October 3, 2008
By Sergey Chernov
Staff Writer
Two popular local nightclubs are facing closure after they agreed to hold a gay and lesbian film festival on their premises. The Place and Sochi, two venues popular with students, the art crowd and expats, were targets of unscheduled [...]
