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Jurist Russia court announces ‘LGTBQA+ propaganda’ case against bookstore

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The Saint Petersburg court announced a case Tuesday against the bookstore “Подписные издания” (Subscription publications) on charges of “LGBTQA+ propaganda.” No information is available yet regarding the reasons for the charges.

On its website, the bookstore shares that it has been open since 1926, with photos that capture the involvement of the store since then with the people of the cultural capital of Russia. Besides selling books, the bookstore has two cafes and its stationery line, hosts events, manages a children’s literature club, produces lists of children’s books and a literature newspaper, and publishes novels.

The bookstore has already been fined 800,000 rubles (approximately $10,000) in May under the “LGBTQA+ propaganda” charges for selling books authored by Susan Sontag, known to defend women’s rights, journalists Valery Panyushkin and Sergey Parkhomenko, who are identified as “foreign agents,” and more. The court also demanded the removal of the aforementioned literature.

The charge of “LGBTQA+ propaganda” against the bookstore is the latest issue in the journal of human rights violations under Putin’s regime. After labeling the LGBTQA+ movement as “extremist” in 2023, the government dedicated a huge amount of resources to punishing anything that resembled it. Companies like Apple have been fined several times for failing to remove undesired content. Bookstores and publishers have been targets of searches, detention, and fines. LGBTQA+ activists have been fined for social media promotions, with at least one sentence being issued for “LGBTQA+ propaganda.” Fines are also given out for messages in Telegram chats, with some people even being detained for posts in Russian social media VKontakte.

On Wednesday, a woman in illegally annexed Crimea was fined 100,000 rubles (approximately $1300) under “LGBTQA+ propaganda” charges for a meme showing men in wedding dresses. The meme depicted men who say “let’s split the bill,” “I waited for you to make a first move,” “why should I be the one to invite [a girl] on a first day?,” and “prove to and show me that you need me” as men in wedding dresses, establishing a connection between the phrases and self emasculation.

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