The organizers say they will appeal.
Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov had opposed the march on the grounds that most people oppose "such public expressions of sexual tendencies."
(Interfax, ITAR-TASS)
Demonstrators outside a gay club in Moscow in early May (AFP) May 26, 2006 - A Moscow court today upheld the decision of the Moscow mayor's office to ban a gay pride parade in the Russian capital.
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