by Rex Wockner
International News Briefs
A libel case against Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov over his having called gays "homos" was dismissed Oct. 2.
After a three-hour hearing the Tverskoi District Court said there was a lack of evidence in the case filed by Moscow Pride organizers.
Speaking on TV in June against the planned gay pride parade, Luzhkov said Russian society "does not accept all these homos."
Luzhkov has banned the pride parade for four years and has sent riot police to aggressively arrest those who ignored the bans.
He has said the bans are for gays' own good so that "radical Christians" don't have a chance to "kill them," but he also reportedly has called gay pride parades "demonic," "satanic" and "weapons of mass destruction."
