From here:

A gay air steward for the Russian carrier Aeroflot was forced to marry a woman in order to keep his job, campaigners say.

GayRussia.eu reported that campaigners had filed notice of a demonstration after gay employee Maxim Kupreev suffered unusual kind of discrimination by his employer.

When Kupreev, 25, tried to found a gay support network at the airline, he was seemingly ordered to marry.

The gay steward tied the knot with his school friend Sofia Mikhailova so he could keep his job at the end of last year, reportedly to minimise publicity for his attempted LGBT network.

What did Sofia Mikhailova get out of this arranged marriage, one wonders. Airmiles? An upgrade to Aeroflot first class with unlimited inflight borsch soup (I had it almost every day when I was in Russia; it’s not that bad – really)?

I know: free stock in Aeroflot.