Crime Quote by Yakov Smirnoff

It is well known that homosexuality is a criminal offense in the United States, in four US states. If it is good or bad,…

— Vladimir Putin

I would like to draw your attention to the fact that in Russia, unlike in one third of the world's countries, being gay is…

— Vladimir Putin

The law in Russia bans "propaganda of homosexuality," which is defined as dissemination of information that can cause harm to the spiritual or physical…

— Masha Gessen

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

Imagine trying to be a gay actor, a gay anything in modern Russia? Where to be positively oneself, to be affectionate in public with…

— Ian Mckellen

Russia, at the start of the 21st century, at least in its larger cities, very much resembled the United States of the early 1990s:…

— Masha Gessen

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

— Courtney Act

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

— Vladimir Putin

I think that a person cannot be criminally or otherwise prosecuted, his or her rights cannot be infringed upon the grounds of nationality, ethnicity…

— Vladimir Putin

Thank you for your kind invitation. However, as a gay man, I must decline. I am deeply troubled by the current attitude toward and…

— Wentworth Miller

Russian law on banning nontraditional relationships basically says you cannot have any portrayal, neutral or positive, of homosexual relationships or nontraditional families, period. And…

— Masha Gessen

Until the year 1967, it was a crime, for which you could be put in prison, to make homosexual love to someone in your…

— Patrick Macnee