{"id":1282,"date":"2014-09-25T19:27:22","date_gmt":"2014-09-26T00:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=1282"},"modified":"2014-09-25T19:27:22","modified_gmt":"2014-09-26T00:27:22","slug":"russian-queerfest-interrupted-by-homophobic-attackers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/1282","title":{"rendered":"Russian Queerfest interrupted by homophobic attackers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By John Mack Freeman<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The International Queer Culture Festival that was being held in St. Petersburg this week was attacked by a gang of homphobic thugs. The event was attended by over 160 people. After dealing with a last minute venue change, the new location was raided by attackers. Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinknews.co.uk\/2014\/09\/20\/russia-queerfest-culture-festival-sprayed-with-gas-by-homophobic-thugs\/\">PinkNews<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Organiser Polina Andrianova told <a href=\"http:\/\/www.glaad.org\/blog\/photos-st-petersburg-queerfest-faces-venue-closures-and-harassment-carries\">GLAAD<\/a>: \u201cAbout 20 hooligans sprayed guests with green substance and some sort of putrid gas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt one point, two foreign guests were being pulled into the venue by the security while being pulled out by their feet by the perpetrators.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe police, who carried themselves professionally, were taking numerous statements by the victims, while St Petersburg ombudsman urged more people to document violations.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By John Mack Freeman The International Queer Culture Festival that was being held in St. Petersburg this week was attacked by a gang of homphobic thugs. The event was attended by over 160 people. After dealing with a last minute venue change, the new location was raided by attackers. Via PinkNews: Organiser Polina Andrianova told [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":1283,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carousel","category-glbt-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}