Related: This trans woman sparked Kuwait's biggest LGBTQ movement “In Russia, this situation is compounded by an increase in violence and intimidation of the community by local authorities and other actors, and proposals for constitutional amendments that, if adopted, would lead to an increasingly less inclusive national legal framework,” LeClaire said. She says they’re living in a hostile environment. Ambassador Alison LeClaire, who represents Canada in Russia, criticized the lack of protections for LGBTQ Russians in a video online. The British embassy in Moscow hung their own rainbow flag out front.
But it wasn’t just American officials in Russia publicly supporting LGBTQ rights.
