ST. PETERSBURG - Police in St.Petersburg have launched an inquiry into local parents' claims that the law banning homosexual propaganda was violated during Madonna's concert on August 9, the city police told Interfax on Monday, Aug. 13.
Madonna gave a concert in St. Petersburg on August 9 as part of her
world tour. Before the concert she asked the audience to raise their
hands with pink bracelets in support of sexual minorities.
The singer said she was fighting for the right to be free, that she
had travelled across the world seeing that people are becoming
increasingly intolerant and that the situation can be changed by love,
not cruelty.
Activists of the Parents’ Control organization turned to police after
the concert and demanded that Madonna be prosecuted for violating the
city law banning homosexual propaganda.
The parents and other activists attached photos and video as evidence
of homosexual propaganda even though there were minors in the audience,
the press service of the author of the law on gay propaganda, deputy of
the local legislature Vitaly Milonov, told Interfax on Friday.
Activists want to sue Madonna, not the organizers, the press service said.
