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German Sterligov bans gays from his Russian store chains. An 
influential multi-millionaire store owner has banned homosexuals 
as the state declines to take action.

Causing disconcert are the actions of ‘devoutly’ religious 
Russian millionaire, German Sterligov who has plastered signs in 
front of chain stores that he owns banning homosexual customers 
from entering his business.

Reads a sign to one of Sterligov’s natural food stores, ‘Bread 
and Salt,’ in central Moscow, ‘No entry for f***ots’.

The banning comes despite a report via news.com.au pointing out 
that Russia decriminalized homosexuality in 1993, two years 
after the fall of the Soviet Union.

Despite Russian law prohibiting sexual discrimination, 
prejudices still run deep with much of the gay community 
existing underground.

Previous reports tell of Sterligov, 50, an orthodox Jew becoming 
a millionaire after opening a mercantile exchange shortly before 
the Soviet Union’s demise.

>From there, the nationalist businessman turned devoutly 
religious before retreating with his family to rural Russia to 
sell organic farm produce. The former protege of Russia’s young 
market economy dropped out of the business world and started 
raising sheep and other livestock on two farms.

‘Our planet is full of filth and sick humans,’ Sterligov told 
Reuters Television at a country fair outside Moscow.

Adding, ‘In front of our eyes is the historical experience of 
Sodom and Gomorrah when God burned these towns.’

Addressing the farm fair, Sterligov praised President Donald 
Trump, who since taking office has revoked his predecessor 
Barack Obama’s landmark guidance to public schools allowing 
transgender students to use the bathroom of their choice.

‘We thank him. May God give him health,’ Sterligov said.

Responding to retail chain’s disregard for the law and 
antagonistic rebuke, Yulia Gorbunova, a Human Rights Watch 
researcher, said the retailer’s measure sent a dangerous message 
in a country where homophobia remains prevalent.

‘It seems like they are promoting homophobia in an already 
homophobic society and it only leads to rising tensions,’ she 
told Reuters Television. ‘The state certainly has a 
responsibility to stop that and step in.’

Alyona, a young assistant in one of Sterligov’s Moscow stores, 
said she shared the chain’s stance on homosexuals ‘as a true 
Christian’.

‘It’s our guarding talisman,’ she said.

Define Christianity?

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has denied he discriminates 
against sexual minorities. Nevertheless it is not necessarily 
understood if any measures have been adopted against the overt 
discrimination of gay customers at Sterligov’s stores and how 
this too might foster other outlets to adopt similar measures?

Noted a previous report via the moscowtimes after German added a 
sign at one of his stores in St Petersburg in April: ‘LGBT 
activists from advocacy group “Vykhod” (Coming Out) have already 
appealed to local police officers to remove the sign. The 
group’s lawyers are currently considering whether to press 
charges of “inciting hatred” against the shop, the activists 
wrote on Facebook.’

https://scallywagandvagabond.com/2017/05/german-sterligov-bans-
gays-russia-store-chain-homosexuals/
   

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