An Image of a gay couple locked in a tender embrace in Russia won the prestigious World Press Photo award on Thursday, highlighting the plight of ***ual mi**rities in the country. AFP's Istanbul-based photographer Bulent Kilic won first and third prizes in the Spot News category, Singles, for two haunting images taken in Turkey and Syria. Danish photographer Mads Nissen shot his evocative winning picture of "Jon and Alex" in a bare room in Saint Petersburg, with only a brown curtain as a backdrop. Russia's gay, lesbian, bi***ual and transgender community has come under increasing attacks in Russia, with the government earlier this year passing a controversial law banning transvestites and trans***uals from driving.
02-13-2015, 12:55 PM
Image of Russian gay couple wins World Press Photo
An Image of a gay couple locked in a tender embrace in Russia won the prestigious World Press Photo award on Thursday, highlighting the plight of ***ual mi**rities in the country. AFP's Istanbul-based photographer Bulent Kilic won first and third prizes in the Spot News category, Singles, for two haunting images taken in Turkey and Syria. Danish photographer Mads Nissen shot his evocative winning picture of "Jon and Alex" in a bare room in Saint Petersburg, with only a brown curtain as a backdrop. Russia's gay, lesbian, bi***ual and transgender community has come under increasing attacks in Russia, with the government earlier this year passing a controversial law banning transvestites and trans***uals from driving.
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