Put Expands ‘Gay Propaganda’ Ban, Threateng LGBTQ Crackdown - Bloomberg

Contents:

• THE GAY WORLD WAR? INSI PUT’S WARPED REALY
• THE FILM PUT DON’T WANT THE WORLD TO SEE: FIREBIRD, A GAY LOVE STORY ABOUT FIGHTER PILOTS
• RSIAN PRINT VLADIMIR PUT IS 'LATENTLY GAY,' ALLEG CONTROVERSIAL NEW BGRAPHY
• MAN WHO CLAIMS 'PUT'S CHEF' IS GAY INV SKEPTICS TO MEET HIM
• PUT SHAR THOUGHTS ON SHOWERG WH GAY MEN AND MENSTAL CYCL
• RSIA'S VLADIMIR PUT 'IS GAY' CLAIMS NTROVERSIAL NEW BGRAPHY
• PUT TALKS GAY RIGHTS ON 60 MUT
• 'THERE WILL BE DAD AND MUM': PUT L OUT RSIA LEGALIZG GAY MARRIAGE
• ‘I’M AAID FOR MY FUTURE’: PROPOSED LAWS THREATEN GAY LIFE RSIA
• PUT EXPANDS ‘GAY PROPAGANDA’ BAN, THREATENG LGBTQ CRACKDOWN
• RSIA BANS IMAG OF PUT LKED TO ‘GAY CLOWN’ MEME

THE GAY WORLD WAR? INSI PUT’S WARPED REALY

The European Court of Human Rights led 2017 that the 2013 law is discrimatory, promot homophobia and vlat the European Conventn on Human Rights. The urt found that the law “served no legimate public tert, ” rejectg suggtns that public bate on LGBT issu uld fluence children to bee homosexual, or that threatened public morals. Homosexualy was crimalized Rsia 1993, but homophobia and discrimatn is still rife.

THE FILM PUT DON’T WANT THE WORLD TO SEE: FIREBIRD, A GAY LOVE STORY ABOUT FIGHTER PILOTS

Speakg before Put signed the bill to the law on Monday, Tanya Loksha, associate Europe and Central Asia director at Human Rights Watch said: “The 2013 ‘gay propaganda’ law was an unabashed example of polil homophobia, and the new draft legislatn amplifi that broar and harsher ways. ”Over the last two s, Rsian Print Vladimir Put has waged an all-out asslt on the LGBTQ muny, amg as part of a larger mpaign to protect Rsia’s “tradnal culture” om what he scrib as an onslght of morn valu promoted by the has lled genr fluidy “a crime agast humany, ” and equated homosexualy wh pedophilia. A “gay propaganda” law passed Rsia 2013 ma illegal to promote gay rights and has been ed to jail activists and shut down LGBTQ support groups.

And durg a seri of anti-gay purg Rsia’s Mlim-majory Chechen Republic, which officials kidnapped, tortured and some s killed men spected of havg sex wh other men, the Kreml turned a bld the same time, life for LGBTQ people Ukrae has slowly been, wh tens of thoands of Rsian troops encirclg major Ukraian ci, gay, lbian and transgenr people are worried about what a Rsian takeover might mean for them. As Put has ma gay people the boogeymen for all of Rsia’s ills, Reid said, he has also fueled “a monstrable crease discrimatn and vlence. Yura Dvizhon, a director who helps n Ukrae’s annual gay pri celebratn.

(Courty Yura Dvizhon) “If we were unr Rsian le, we’d have to shut our mouths, we wouldn’t be able to drs how we want, we would never have gay pri, ” said Yura Dvizhon, 29, a well-known Ukraian director.

RSIAN PRINT VLADIMIR PUT IS 'LATENTLY GAY,' ALLEG CONTROVERSIAL NEW BGRAPHY

(Daniel Leal / AFP via Getty Imag) Ukrae was never a utopia for gays and transgenr people, Dvizhon marriage is illegal Ukrae, LGBTQ people are not protected by anti-discrimatn laws, and the fluential Christian Orthodox Church views homosexualy as a s. Last year’s annual gay pri para Kyiv drew 7, 000 people — a victory, even if police were lled to fend off anti-gay protters.

Opn polls show Ukraians have bee more acceptg of gay rights over the last . In 2019, Print Volodymyr Zelensky snapped back at a homophobic heckler who had terpted his speech.

MAN WHO CLAIMS 'PUT'S CHEF' IS GAY INV SKEPTICS TO MEET HIM

”While there are still ncrete laws — an anti-discrimatn bill foremost among them — that the natn’s LGBTQ muny is wag for, everybody knows that the suatn for gay people Rsia is “much, much, much worse, ” said Natsya Kosach, a lbian DJ Kyiv. “I know gay guys who are the Terrorial Defense [Ukrae’s ary rerve force] and nobody is sayg anythg to them.

“This is a homophobic, transphobic place, ” she said.

PUT SHAR THOUGHTS ON SHOWERG WH GAY MEN AND MENSTAL CYCL

The regn has bee more homophobic sce then, she said. She believ anti-gay and trans discrimatn has s roots the Orthodox Church but also the Soviet Unn, which broke up Soviet society, nformy was prized.

RSIA'S VLADIMIR PUT 'IS GAY' CLAIMS NTROVERSIAL NEW BGRAPHY

New amendments banned anythg that uld be nsted as a suggtn that homosexual relatnships are normal. Whу God’s name are Rsian lawmakers so agated about gay marriag durg a bloody war?

How is “gay propaganda” related to war wh Ukrae? This is where the gay propaganda kicks : It’s all a part of a dastardly plan, he says, by Wtern el to stop the natural propagatn of humany.

PUT TALKS GAY RIGHTS ON 60 MUT

“People are beg doctrated gay marriage so they don’t multiply, ” Kovalch said, “and a uple of generatns there won’t be anybody. It’s agast a New World Orr of Bilrberg and Davos el tryg to geilly engeer a subservient humany wh gay marriag the Wt and killer vis the rt of the world. It’s only natural that Rsia, while wagg such a war, has to prohib gay upl.

'THERE WILL BE DAD AND MUM': PUT L OUT RSIA LEGALIZG GAY MARRIAGE

… The classil unrstandg of ‘Europe’ wh s gay propaganda is losg to the tradnal world. They are alg stead wh a someone steeped nspiracy theori, who believ he is fightg a csa agast gay marriag, geilly modified mosquo, and the Bilrbergs.

“Beg gay was a crimal offence. ” Rebane knew he was gay at the age of ne. ”Remarkably for a film wh such overtly gay ntent, several exterr scen were filmed Mosw.

“After that, ” adds Prr, “there was a plat about beg ‘homosexual propaganda’. Rsian Print Vladimir Put is a sexls man who may be secretly gay.

‘I’M AAID FOR MY FUTURE’: PROPOSED LAWS THREATEN GAY LIFE RSIA

In the book, Belkovsky, a long-time Put opponent, is also said to speculate that "sex and a sex life are alien" to the polician, who the 42-year-old thor says may be "latently gay. Implitns of homosexualy would unrstandably not s well wh the Rsian lear and his ernment.

PUT EXPANDS ‘GAY PROPAGANDA’ BAN, THREATENG LGBTQ CRACKDOWN

In July, Harvey Fierste wrote an op-ed for The New York Tim that Put had "clared war on homosexuals" after he signed several anti-gay bills to law, cludg one that banned "homosexual propaganda. Dpe wispread ternatnal cricism, Put has fend the anti-gay measur and has sisted that neher he nor his ernment is homophobic. Before You GoStars Sound Off On Rsia's Anti-Gay Law Popular the CommunyYou May Like.

A vio makg the rounds on social media purports to show a man claimg that a close nfidant of Rsian Print Vladimir Put is gay, and he is vg skeptics to meet wh vio, shared Tuday by an Estonian Twter er who go by "Dmri, " begs wh a Rsian man troducg himself as Sasha Kurara and claimg to be an ex-nvict, havg served time prison at the same time as Yevgeny Prigozh. Prigozh is a wealthy bsman wh a close relatnship wh Put, sometim dubbed "Put's Chef" bee of his var rtrants and terg further said the profany- and slur-lan clip that Prigozh is gay, or at least, performed sexual acts on other men durg his time prison.

RSIA BANS IMAG OF PUT LKED TO ‘GAY CLOWN’ MEME

A recently circulated vio purports to show a man who served prison time wh Prigozh claimg that he is gay. Multiple discrimatory laws have been passed sce, startg wh 2013 legislatn rtrictg LGBTQ+ rights known as the "gay propaganda" law, which banned any public endorsement of "nontradnal sexual relatns" among the vasn of Ukrae last year, Rsian thori ratcheted up their rhetoric, methodilly weedg out anythg they emed a "gradg Wtern fluence, " cludg rights groups that advoted anythg om helpg domtic abe victims to prervg rerds of Soviet 2022, the origal law targetg "gay propaganda" was expand to ver adults, outlawg any posive or even ntral reprentatn of LGBTQ+ people the public sphere, movi, lerature or media, forcg the already rare number of LGBTQ+-iendly spac to executive director of the Inpennt Psychiatric Associatn of Rsia, Lyubov Vogradova, lled the law "misanthropic" ments to the Rsian newspaper Kommersant late June.

Rsian Print Vladimir Put has suggted his mastery of judo would e handy if a gay man ma a move on him the shower, while fendg his ernment's clg rerd on LGBT spoke to U. "The man repeatedly lled Rsia's most eligible bachelor later parri qutns about one of his third printial term's most ntroversial laws—the so-lled gay propaganda law.

Any rmative materials on the issue are nsired activism, and mt not be available to law has embolned members of Put's own Uned Rsia party to lobby for a ban or age-lim on same-sex emojis smartphon and rally crowds unr a heterosexual "real" fay pri flag, while Communist Party MPs have drafted legislatn to ban gay people om "g out" public. Addrsg legislatn Rsia, Put told Stone "there are no rtrictns whatsoever" on gay people, flectg to the fact that other untri, such as hardle Islamic natns, have much more explic bans on homosexualy, cludg the ath of his personal attus then? Oliver Stone asked Put, a former secury service agent and director, what his rponse would be if a gay man were showerg next to him a submare.