Russian metropolis plans then bans first satisfaction parade because toddlers could see

A poster that includes Russia's President Vladimir Putin and Russia's leading Minister Dmitry Medvedev. (JOHN MACDOUGALL/AFP/GettyImages)

The mayor of a town in Russia agreed to hang a satisfaction parade, but later banned it fearing that babies may see it.

LGBT+ rights activist Nikolay Alexeev has headed a crusade for "freedom of assembly for LGBT americans" in 380 cities in Russia, and the town of Strezhovoy was to be the first to agree.

Alexeev posted on the Russian social media website VK on July 12: "The authorities of the metropolis of Strezhevoy in the Tomsk vicinity have just agreed to dangle a homosexual parade march!

"The action will take area on July 24! Strezhevoy may additionally develop into the first metropolis in Russia where the gay parade procession will take region with the approval of the authorities."

despite the fact on July 14 he posted once again to assert that the mayor had backtracked, making increasingly tricky calls for including changing the route and time of the parade before banning it completely.

He wrote: "As soon as I comply with their insanely inconvenient offers, corresponding to abandoned suburbs, villages and settlements, which, as they accept as true with, i cannot settle for, a ban comes automatically."

town of Strezhovoy in Russia was to dangle to first satisfaction celebrations authorized through authorities. (Wikimedia Commons)

He posted images of letters bought from the mayor which, in keeping with native e-book VTOMSKE, mentioned that the parade had been banned "so as to give protection to children from information that promotes the rejection of normal family values."

The letter persisted: "assistance from open sources offers the administration of Strezhevoy to believe that the true intention of maintaining public hobbies could be the promoting of non-normal sexual family members, the formation of the attractiveness of non-ordinary sexual members of the family."

Alexeev referred to he would attraction the decision in court, and take the concern to the eu court of Human Rights (ECHR).

The "advertising of homosexuality" is illegal in Russia and is generally ordinary as the nation's "homosexual propaganda" legislations, which became added in 2013.

The cited goal of the legislation is to protect infants from being exposed to "homonormativity."