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Century-old Russian bookstore fined $10,000 for selling ‘LGBT propaganda’ (tvpworld.com)

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The Kuibyshevsky District Court in St. Petersburg found the Podpisniye Izdaniya bookstore guilty of violating Russia’s harsh anti-LGBT laws for selling works by authors such as Susan Sontag and Olivia Laing, media reports said.

The writers’ works explore themes related to identity and sexuality.

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[–] froufox@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 1 month ago

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