Gay L.A. Councilmembers are calling on the federal government to expand asylum for LGBT Russians, Frontiers reports:
Against
the backdrop of increasing pressure from angry LGBT and human rights
activists around the world to move or boycott the Winter Olympics in
Sochi, Russia, over that country's harsh “gay propaganda” law, the two
newly elected gay members of the Los Angeles City Council introduced a
resolution Friday calling on the federal government to aggressively
expand America's asylum programs to help persecuted LGBT people in
Russia.
This resolution supplants the previous resolution
offered last February by then-Councilmember Bill Rosendahl to sever or
suspend L.A.'s 'sister city' ties with homophobic St. Petersburg, where
the anti-gay law originated.
