Communist MP Calls For Gay Clubs To Be Closed In Russia

Gay clubs should be banned under a new Russian bill seeking to penalize LGBT ‘propaganda’, Nina Ostanina, a member of the country’s lower house of parliament, has said.

Nina Ostanina is member of the parliamentary opposition Communist Party and has become a prominent voice on "family values" issues. She previously identified as a "progressive."

“Gay clubs are places where one usually can find [LGBT] people… I consider them establishments that promote untraditional sexual relations,” Ostanina, the head of the parliamentary committee on family matters, told news agency RIA Novosti.

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