LGBTQ media outlet Parni+ and the Moscow Community Centre have been declared extremist organisations.

The Zavodskoy District Court of the Oryol region has granted the Justice Ministry’s claim and banned Parni+ as an extremist organisation. The queer media outlet reports this itself.

“According to the case materials: if LGBTQ people talk about themselves, then they are ‘promoting visibility’; if they talk about discrimination, then they are ‘setting themselves against the state’; if they use inclusive language, then they are ‘undermining traditional values.’ They are trying to label the visibility, voice and experience of the LGBTQ community as ‘extremism,’” Parni+ notes.

The media outlet said it will continue its work.

16:31 The Moscow City Court has declared the Moscow Community Centre for LGBT+ Initiatives an extremist organisation. This was reported by the centre itself.

The community centre will also continue its work.

• In recent months, the Justice Ministry has demanded a ban on several LGBTQ+ organisations. These include the largest interregional movement, the Russian LGBT Network; the trans support project Centre T; the Callistro movement in Yaroslavl (a city north-east of Moscow); the Irida organisation in Samara (a large city on the Volga river); and the T9 NSK project in Novosibirsk (the biggest city in Siberia).
• The Exit group in St Petersburg and the Resource Centre for LGBT in Yekaterinburg (an industrial city in the Urals) have already been labelled extremist.

The news headline was changed after the information about the Moscow Community Centre decision appeared