Teenage Suicide: Go do it!

St. Petersburg just passed a law banning “Gay Propaganda.” It legalizes fines for anyone promoting alternative lifestyles to minors. It seems minor, but some studies show that an accepting environment decreases the chance of a teenage suicide in the GLBT community by up to 20%.

This law makes that illegal.

It’s not the first move towards discrimination in Russia. Russia actually put together a bill in 2008 to ban goth/emo people from entering public buildings and to ban certain bands (My Chemical Romance, etc) from performing/selling their music in Russia. However, anyone can dance to this: