Russia bans another gay website, one dedicated to HIV education

Russian censors have blocked another gay website, this time one that is a portal for LGBTI health and HIV information. Parni PLUS (Guys Plus) announced it had received the notice from the Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media known as Roskomnadzor.

It said a local court ruled that the website ‘contains information challenges family values hat promote unconventional sexual relations’. The Burlinsky District Court in the outlying Altai Territory, which borders Mongolia and Kazakhstan, made the ruling on 26 January, 2018. But Parni Plus was only notified of that decision on 28 April. That left it no time to appeal the decision.

The court ruled Parni PLUS’ content violated Russia’s infamous 2013 ‘gay propaganda’ law. In its notice to the website Roskomnadzor said it had 24 hours to remove the prohibited content from the website or restrict access to it. But the order does not say exactly which content broke the law. Read more via Gay Star News