Popular St. Petersburg Bookstore Fined $10K for ‘LGBT Propaganda’

Popular St. Petersburg Bookstore Fined $10K for ‘LGBT Propaganda’

Podpisniye Izdaniya was accused of violating Russia’s anti-LGBT laws for selling books by authors like Susan Sontag and Olivia Laing.

St Petersburg bookshop fined for spreading 'LGBT propaganda'

A century-old bookstore in St Petersburg is the latest business to run afoul of Russian’s ‘LGBT propaganda’ laws. A judge has ordered Podpisniye Izdaniya to pay a fine of 800,000 rubles, around AUD$15,600. The bookstore reportedly copped the fine for stocking works by a range of authors including Susan Sontag and Oliver Laing. When police searched the bookshop in April they were ordered to remove 48 titles. The ruling comes as authorities crackd…