Yulia Tsvetkova, an artist and activist in Russia’s Far East, runs social media pages focusing on women’s art and LGBT issues. Her posts prompted officials to charge her with “propaganda of nontraditional sexual relations among minors” and distributing pornography, an offense for which she could face years in prison
Many marchers wore rainbow T-shirts, and beat drums and blew whistles. Others carried rainbow flags and signs that read “United In Differences” and chanted “Death to fascism, freedom to the people!”