BY MICHAEL K. LAVERS
Washington Blade
Retired tennis champion Martina Navratilova on Monday blasted Russian lawmakers who unanimously passed a bill last week that would ban the “promotion of homosexuality” to minors.
“It is kind of frightening that people could agree that much on that,” she told the Washington Blade during a telephone interview from Paris, noting the 436-0 margin by which the measure passed in the Russian Duma. “It just goes to show how totalitarian that country is because you can have a vote on that.”
Individuals would face fines of between 4,000 and 5,000 rubles ($124-$155,) and government officials would face fines of between 40,000 and 50,000 rubles ($1,241-$1,551) under the proposal. Media organizations and other groups would face a fine of up to 1 million rubles ($31,000) or suspension of their activities for up to 90 days.
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