St. Petersburg Prosecutors Order Independent Bookstore to Remove LGBTQ+ Books

St. Petersburg Prosecutors Order Independent Bookstore to Remove LGBTQ+ Books

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Prosecutors inspected the Subscription Publications bookstore in St. Petersburg. As a result, an employee...

Law enforcers inspected the independent bookstore Subscriptions in St. Petersburg. They seized several dozen books from the store that found “signs of LGBT ideology”. What do visitors to the famous bookstore think about this? New Europe spoke with readers of Subscription Publications and recalls the store's story. Photo: Alexander Koryakov/Commercial/Sipa USA/Vida Press. Security forces came to the independent book Subscriptions in St. Petersbur…

In St. Petersburg, prosecutors inspected the independent bookstore Subscriptions, after which employees were given a list of 48 books that should be removed from the shelves, Rotunda reports, citing the store's founder Mikhail Ivanov and his employees. Among those included in the list are the book “About Women” by philosopher Susan Sontag and a collection of essays “7 texts about feminism. Disarming gender” with activist Daria Serenko among the …

Prosecutors came to check the Subscription Publications bookstore in St. Petersburg. A possible reason for the audit was books by Ad Marginem. Mikhail Kotomin, the editor-in-chief of the publishing house, does not know what books we are talking about. According to Mash, the reason for the investigation was a complaint about LGBT* literature.