01:08UK: Valery Gergiev faces London's music
UK: Valery Gergiev faces London's music
Russian conductor Valery Gergiev was faced with a gay rights protest as he conducted a concert in London on Thursday evening.
Hundreds of LGBT activists gathered outside the Barbican concert hall, where Gergiev, who allegedly supports Russia's laws which ban the propagation of "non-traditional" sexual relationships to under-eighteens, was conducting the London Symphony Orchestra
Gergiev, who is the artistic director of the world famous Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg, has recently been targeted by gay rights advocates after the conductor signed a bill supporting Putin's new legislation in June.
In a statement he said: "I have said before that I do not discriminate against anyone, gay or otherwise, and never have done, and as head of the Mariinsky Theatre this is our policy."
The protest took place on the anniversary of the 1917 Russian revolution.
01:08UK: Valery Gergiev faces London's music
Russian conductor Valery Gergiev was faced with a gay rights protest as he conducted a concert in London on Thursday evening.
Hundreds of LGBT activists gathered outside the Barbican concert hall, where Gergiev, who allegedly supports Russia's laws which ban the propagation of "non-traditional" sexual relationships to under-eighteens, was conducting the London Symphony Orchestra
Gergiev, who is the artistic director of the world famous Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg, has recently been targeted by gay rights advocates after the conductor signed a bill supporting Putin's new legislation in June.
In a statement he said: "I have said before that I do not discriminate against anyone, gay or otherwise, and never have done, and as head of the Mariinsky Theatre this is our policy."
The protest took place on the anniversary of the 1917 Russian revolution.