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Attacks on Moscow Gay Club Continue

Attacks on Moscow Gay Club Continue

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Unknown assailants sprayed a harmful gas inside the Central Station club Saturday night, just a week after gunshots were fired there.

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There was a gas attack on the Moscow gay nightclub Central Station, just a week after gunshots were fired at the club, continuing a series of attacks on the popular nightspot.

"Unknown malefactors sprayed some harmful gas inside the club" Saturday night, when about 500 people were present, website Queer Russia reports, in a translation from a Russian-language news source. Some patrons sought medical attention, while club staffers were able to clear the fumes within a few minutes by using a smoke removal machine.

Two men fired gunshots at Central Station November 16, but no one was injured. The gas attack "is the fourth provocation against the club arranged by unknown persons," said general director Andrey Leschinsky, according to Queer Russia. "We believe that they are connected with the building owner." The attackers are "trying to express their extremist views against [the] LGBT community," he added.

Club management has filed a complaint with police. There has been a surge in violence against LGBT people and their gathering places since Russia's adoption last summer of a nationwide ban on "propaganda of nontraditional sexual relations," which effectively prohibits any positive discussion of LGBT issues or identities in venues accessible to minors.

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Trudy Ring is The Advocate’s senior politics editor and copy chief. She has been a reporter and editor for daily newspapers and LGBTQ+ weeklies/monthlies, trade magazines, and reference books. She is a political junkie who thinks even the wonkiest details are fascinating, and she always loves to see political candidates who are groundbreaking in some way. She enjoys writing about other topics as well, including religion (she’s interested in what people believe and why), literature, theater, and film. Trudy is a proud “old movie weirdo” and loves the Hollywood films of the 1930s and ’40s above all others. Other interests include classic rock music (Bruce Springsteen rules!) and history. Oh, and she was a Jeopardy! contestant back in 1998 and won two games. Not up there with Amy Schneider, but Trudy still takes pride in this achievement.
Trudy Ring is The Advocate’s senior politics editor and copy chief. She has been a reporter and editor for daily newspapers and LGBTQ+ weeklies/monthlies, trade magazines, and reference books. She is a political junkie who thinks even the wonkiest details are fascinating, and she always loves to see political candidates who are groundbreaking in some way. She enjoys writing about other topics as well, including religion (she’s interested in what people believe and why), literature, theater, and film. Trudy is a proud “old movie weirdo” and loves the Hollywood films of the 1930s and ’40s above all others. Other interests include classic rock music (Bruce Springsteen rules!) and history. Oh, and she was a Jeopardy! contestant back in 1998 and won two games. Not up there with Amy Schneider, but Trudy still takes pride in this achievement.