Calls for Manchester to end its twinning city link with St Petersburg, Russia.
A petition calling on Manchester City Council to end its ‘twinned city’ link with St Petersburg, Russia has been launched by change.org, the online lobbying organisation. Twenty years after homosexuality was decriminalised in Russia, anti-gay legislation is making a rapid comeback, with St Petersbur
A petition calling on Manchester City Council to end its ‘twinned city’ link with St Petersburg, Russia has been launched by change.org, the online lobbying organisation.
Twenty years after homosexuality was decriminalised in Russia, anti-gay legislation is making a rapid comeback, with St Petersburg becoming the latest city to ban ‘homosexual propaganda’.
The petition, which so far has over 4,000 signatories, suggests that instead of twinning the two cities, links should be established between the gay community in Manchester and the gay community in St. Petersburg as a sign of solidarity and that, perhaps, Manchester City Council could help to facilitate this.
To sign the petition, CLICK HERE:
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