The city celebrates the Manchester Gay Pride festival, a major annual event to rival Sydney’s Mardi Gras. Picture: Nathan Cox/Getty Images

The newspaper, Komsomolskaya Pravda, told its readers women in the northern English city have rolls of fat “hanging from their bodies” but still stuff themselves into tight clothes on a night out, The Sun reports.

One Russian visitor is quoted saying: “Their women are so fat, they look disgusting to their men.

“You see, they eat so much fast food and potatoes.

“And they drink beer from huge glasses. Here is the result.”

The vibrant northern English city of Manchester has been slammed in Russia’s biggest newspaper because, among other reasons, its women are ‘so fat’.Source:Supplied

Top columnist Alisa Titko’s disturbing anti-gay diatribe — also peppered with criticisms of women — claimed Manchester was an example of a city that Moscow should not emulate.

“It is true that there are many fat people in Manchester,” she said after a recent visit.

“Local young women don’t mind when fat hangs down from their stomach and body and does not fit into their jeans.

“Whatever, when they go to a nightclub they put on tight fit leggings and mini-dresses.

“Of course, it is hardly possible that men turn gay because girls are too fat and non-sexual.

“But it can influence it too.”

Komsomolskaya Pravda columnist Alisa Titko is no fan of Manchester, or its proud LGTB communities. Picture: TwitterSource:Twitter

She claimed Manchester showed why people were wrong to call for Moscow to be “more tolerant to couples with non-traditional sexual orientation”.

She told readers: “In Manchester there is a whole part of the city for gay people. Nobody told me about it, I have found it myself when I was walking around the town.

“There is even a plate there saying ‘Gay Village’.

“It is the most popular place for such couples, there are cafes and clubs there with small rainbow flags.

“Of course, a young man with a girl can also go into the gay club but they should know that if somebody approaches them, it maybe not just for a chat but for something more deep.”

She continued by saying in the evening, gay and lesbian locals were having fun both indoors and out — and weren’t afraid to hide their feelings.

The city celebrates the Manchester Gay Pride festival, a major annual event to rival Sydney’s Mardi Gras. Picture: Nathan Cox/Getty ImagesSource:Getty Images

“In one cafe, there was a wedding of two rather big girls,” she wrote.

“One of them was wearing a bridal veil, the second had a black-tie on. Their mothers and friends were sitting at the table with them.

“At the next table we saw a man in a skin mask who was sticking his tongue out of it when he wanted to lick the ear of his partner.

“We see explicit posters on the walls, for example the one of kissing Batman and Superman.”

She claimed gay people openly holding hands and kissing was “disgusting”, adding: “It is such a pleasure that there are no such gay streets in Moscow”.

Titko also claimed a rise in the number of “with non-traditional sexual orientation” in Russia was because “their mothers did not beat them enough when they were kids”.

She demanded: “Let’s remain Russian. Let’s start normal families. Let’s give birth in legal marriages. And [let’s not] mix love and debauchery.”

Needless to say, Manchester’s locals were not having much of Titko’s criticisms.

Titko’s view appears consistent with wider attitudes towards LGTB communities in Russia and comes amid reports gay men in Chechnya were rounded up into “concentration camps” where they were beaten and tortured, with some killed.

This article originally appeared on The Sun and was reproduced with permission.