About Quote by Franklin Graham

LGBT people are at the heart of President Vladimir Putin's crackdown on democracy.

— Kerry Kennedy

Putin needed an enemy, an Other, against which to mobilize. LGBT people are really convenient: we're sort of the ultimate foreign agent.

— Masha Gessen

Before any American points a finger at President Putin and calls him nasty names, they should recognize that a lot of Americans agree with…

— Henry Rollins

I think the Russian government is right to be concerned with propaganda on teenagers who are at the age of struggling through sexual identity…

— Bryan Fischer

It's not dissimilar to what we see with the president of Russia, who uses a minority there, the lesbian, gay, bisexual community ... and…

— Thomas Mulcair

“The Russian anti-gay campaign, which associates European and American power with the hidden hand of the gay international, was targeted to the Muslim world…

— Timothy Snyder

Russia isn't only oppressive toward gay people, it is hard on everyone, particularly women.

— Courtney Act

There's another piece of legislation in Russia that would make "allowing for nontraditional sexual relations" a cause for removing parental rights, and remove children…

— Masha Gessen

The problem of sexual minorities in Russia has been deliberately made controversial in Russia. There is no such problem in Russia.

— Vladimir Putin

In Russia all people enjoy the equal rights, including homosexuals.

— Vladimir Putin

What's going on in Russia is not that the public is homophobic, but that the Kremlin has unleashed a war. You don't fight a…

— Masha Gessen

Vladimir Putin is a human rights abuser, responsible for deaths in Ukraine, Georgia and Syria, not to mention curious murders of his political opponents…

— Jake Tapper