Il tribunale di Mosca multa un uomo per aver pubblicato una foto tratta dal video musicale dei Queen “I Want to Break Free”, dichiarandola propaganda LGBT
https://meduza.io/news/2026/01/31/rossiyskiy-sud-priznal-fotografiyu-gruppy-queen-propagandoy-lgbt
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Moscow resident David Gevondyan was fined under the “LGBT propaganda” law for a photo depicting the members of the band Queen dressed in women’s clothing during the filming of the music video for the song “I Want to Break Free.” Verstka found this information in the Moscow City Court’s ruling, which heard Gevondyan’s appeal.
Mediazona reported in March that the Nagatinsky District Court reviewed four administrative charges filed against 21-year-old Gevondyan for “LGBT propaganda” and imposed a fine of 100,000 rubles for each. The rulings stated that the charges were based on images of “men dressed in women’s clothing and accessories (children’s hair clips),” “men dressed in women’s clothing,” and men kissing.
Gevondyan attempted to appeal the court’s decision. In his appeal, he specifically argued that the photo of men dressed in women’s clothing did not constitute “LGBT propaganda,” but rather a still from the filming of the music video for Queen’s song “I Want to Break Free,” which featured members of the band.
The court rejected this argument, declaring that “posting a photo of Queen members dressed in women’s clothing on a website has no musical connotation, given the overall message being disseminated.”
In addition to “LGBT propaganda,” David Gevondyan was charged with promoting extremism. The report, cited by Mediazona, stated that he posted on VKontakte “the flag of the Ukrainian organization ‘Ukrainian Insurgent Army’ with the caption ‘Russia and a car brand are brothers forever’ and an image of two hanged men.” For promoting extremism, Gevondyan was sentenced to 10 days of administrative arrest.
Should have posted “Easy”, the Faith No More version.
The corruption / s
If only putin had come to terms with his sexuality so many problems with Russia and the world now that he cReated would not exist.
The wild part is they fined someone over a decades old pop video and called it propaganda.
This isn’t about protecting kids or morality. It’s about reminding people that even nostalgia is now subject to state approval. When a Queen video can get you in trouble, the message is simple. Nothing is neutral anymore.
That’s not law and order. That’s control through paranoia.
If I remember the video correctly (yes, I watched it on MTV when I was still young!), there is the band dressed in woman’s clothes doing household chores like vacuum cleaning and dusting. My understanding was always that this tells the story of a relationship that was more about providing household services and became stale otherwise. This also fits into the lyrics of the song.
To be fair, Queen did also a lot of what might be labelled “gay propaganda” (for good or for worse) but that song was certainly the least of them all.
Our future if we don’t make this Europe better.