Petition re Russia

We have just begun an exciting venture to campaign to support All Out - a global gay rights campaigning organisation - with their petition in response to Russia's new anti-gay legislation and the anti-gay attacks.

From the 3rd September all of the world's leaders will be in Russia for the G20 summit. All of the world's eyes will be on Russia for a period. It is the perfect moment to send solidarity and support to the people of Russia and to put pressure on Russia's leaders to revoke their homophobic law. All Out are actively organising around this date and we want to support their campaign and petition. Their petition currently has 350,000 signatures. It is our ambition to push the petition to over 1 MILLION signatures.

We are asking all the bars, clubs...etc in the Gay Village to also show their support and get involved by promoting the campaign and getting their clientele to sign the petition online by either telling them or advertising it on their Facebook/Twitter/Instagram/Pinterest.

We are inviting staff, customers, online audience and/or passer-bys to paint a pink triangle (pointing up) on their cheek (or other body parts) and to share a picture on social media using the hashtags #SIGNOFLOVE and #RUSSIA4LOVE and we are inviting you to join us and do the same. If anyone would like us to share their photo they can also tag us with @LushArndale (Twitter and Instagram) or post it on our Facebook page and we will showcase it.

If you would like to support the petition   allout.org/en/actions/russia-attacks

Charles Haydn-Slater
Lush Manchester Arndale

Published: 5-Sep-2013: (2045)