Need some pink pistols over there for those skinheads.
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MOSCOW (AFP) - Russia's homosexual community plans to push ahead with a gay pride march in the capital on Sunday despite opposition from city authorities and far-right extremists, an organiser said Saturday.
Meanwhile, a group of hardline Orthodox Christians and Russian nationalists said they would organise a counter-protest about two kilometres (1.25 miles) away from the gay pride march under the label "for a real love." Some 500 people demonstrated on Saturday in central Moscow against homosexuality.
Gay pride organiser Nikolai Alexeyev told journalists on Saturday that marchers would deliver a letter to Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov asking that the demonstration and others like it be authorised. The mayor had earlier called gay pride "the work of Satan."
The march has been banned by city authorities and clashes are feared with extreme-rightists similar to those that occurred in May last year.
"We invite all those who support the cause of sexual minorities to meet in front of Moscow city hall at noon Moscow time (0800 GMT)," Alexeyev said.
He was accompanied by members of the European Parliament, the Strasbourg assembly of the European Union, as well as Italian, German and Austrian lawmakers. Far-right parliament member Alexei Mitrofanov was also present.
Sophie Int Veld, Dutch member of the European Parliament, said gay rights was above all question of civil rights.
"Why does the European Commission talk about the economy, but not human rights in Russia?" she said. "There are not different conceptions of human rights in Russia. The rights of homosexuals are rights universally recognised."
Moscow police said late Saturday they would take all legal measures to prevent any attempts at provocation.
"The organisers of this type of event do not protect the rights of sexual minorities, but use the citizens with non-traditional orientations for their own purposes, provoking trouble in the capital," said police spokesman Viktor Biryukov.
At last year's parade, also held in defiance of a ban, more than 100 people were arrested and dozens of gay rights campaigners were attacked by skinheads shouting "Moscow is not Sodom."
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