Rsia Created a "Flag for Straights" to Fight "Gay Fever" | Time

Contents:

• U.S., WTERN EMBASSI FLY GAY PRI FLAGS MOSW
• RSIAN ICE CREAM 'GAY PROPAGANDA' ROW
• RSIA UNVEILS STRAIGHT PRI FLAG TO RIVAL GAY FLAG
• U.S. EMBASSY MOSW FLI GAY PRI FLAG
• RSIA CREATED A "FLAG FOR STRAIGHTS" TO FIGHT "GAY FEVER"
• RSIA'S JEWISH FLAG IS NOT GAY, KREML EXPERT SAYS
• RSIAN JEWISH REGN’S ‘GAY’ FLAG IS KOSHER!

U.S., WTERN EMBASSI FLY GAY PRI FLAGS MOSW

Displays of the rabow flag are unmon Rsia, where “homosexual propaganda toward mors” was outlawed 2013 and tolerant attus toward the LGBT muny persist. June 25 marks the 43th anniversary of the rabow flag’s first appearance as a gay pri symbol at the 1978 Pri para San Francis.

Has long been cril of Rsia’s gay rights rerd.

The flag is not often displayed public Rsia due to a ntroversial law that prohibs “homosexual propaganda toward mors” and persistent anti-LGBT attus across the untry. Dpe backlash agast the flag om Rsian lawmakers and right-wg groups, Mv snapped some photos ont of the flag a show of support for gay rights:.

RSIAN ICE CREAM 'GAY PROPAGANDA' ROW

Crics say the clse would effectively prevent gay marriage om ever beg legalized Rsia.

RSIA UNVEILS STRAIGHT PRI FLAG TO RIVAL GAY FLAG

This photo shows two men kissg and holdg the popular gay romance novel "What If It's Us.

The flag's June 25 unveilg also marked the 42nd anniversary of the rabow flag's first appearance at a gay pri para San Francis 1978. Dpe gradually improvg opns, gay rights ntue to be a ntent topic Rsia, wh one five Rsians believg that LGBT people should be “elimated, ” acrdg to a poll nducted April. Image source, Chistaya LiyaImage ptn, Some Rsia saw this ice cream as promotg homosexualyA Rsian ice cream maker has been acced of promotg homosexualy after g a rabow on s head of Rsia's official Unn of Women said the image amounted to "propaganda" for gay and lbian relatns a vio nference wh Print Vladimir Put.

U.S. EMBASSY MOSW FLI GAY PRI FLAG

Homosexualy was crimalised Rsia 1993, but those emed to be promotg "homosexual behavur among mors" face f of up to 500, 000 roubl ($7, 000). "Image source, Rossiya 24Image ptn, Print Put quipped about the US embassy flyg the rabow flagHe add that he had no objectns to homosexualy, only to s "propaganda" the same meetg, Print Put cricised the US embassy Mosw for displayg the rabow flag recently, sayg that the symbol said "somethg about those who work there". Homophobia is rife Rsia and, after the flag was displayed, nservative activists placed a siar one on the pavement outsi the US embassy for passers-by to wipe their feet thori Rsia have been acced of toleratg anti-gay abe, and there have been allegatns of particularly cel purg the North Cs regn of Chechnya.

RSIA CREATED A "FLAG FOR STRAIGHTS" TO FIGHT "GAY FEVER"

"As the father of a large fay, I openly voted for the nstutnal amendments specifilly bee one of them fends the tradnal valu, " he told official news agency RIA Lakhova's claims that ice cream is beg ed to promote homosexualy has ed an uproar on Rsian popular daily Moskovsky Komsomolets sarstilly suggted that the rabow mt now be banned om appearg after ras Rsia, and that the Defence Mistry may be drafted to fight any rogue rabows.

A popular Twter er jokgly mand that light dispersn be banned Rsia bee " puts homosexual nuendo to normal sunlight". Journalist Andrei Loshak took a much more ser view of the suatn, accg Put of tryg to e homophobia "as an effective populist tool". "Someone tell him that tim have changed" and Rsians are more acceptg of gay rights, Mr Loshak wrote on Facebook.

RSIA'S JEWISH FLAG IS NOT GAY, KREML EXPERT SAYS

A poll 2019 suggted that 47% of Rsians supported equal rights for gay and lbian people, wh 43% agast. Vladimir Put’s Uned Rsia Party has created a ‘straight flag’ to fly their fight agast “gay fever. Homosexualy isn’t illegal Rsia, but certaly is owned upon, and there are laws that prevent promotg “nontradnal” sexual relatns to new flag the wake of a surge of posive opn that me after the US Supreme Court led  favor of same-sex marriage last the ter, many acced the flag’s creators of plagiarism, potg out siari between the #RealFay flag and the flag of La Manif Pour To, a French group that volly oppos gay marriage.

A group of Lat Amerin activists cid to fy Rsian anti-gay laws wh a ltle help om their soccer jerseys. The fiant "Hidn Flag" — the brachild of LOLA Mullenlowe, a Spanish digal agency, and FELGTB, Spa's largt LGBTQ anizatn — is the latt effort to ll out rampant homophobia Rsia, pecially as the untry hosts the World Cup. "Unfortunately, 40 years later, there are still untri which homosexualy is persecuted, sometim even by jail sentenc, and which the rabow flag is forbidn.

"For me, Rsia is a symbol of homophobia, wh a ernment that allows discrimators to be protected by the law, and somewhere where people aren't ee to love, " Vana Paola Ferrar, who wore the Argente jersey, wrote on the group's page. The party of Rsian print Vladimir Put, upset by the “gay fever” advancg around the world, has unveiled a new “straight pri” flag to unter the rabow gay pri flag. “We mt prevent gay fever our untry and support tradnal valu.

RSIAN JEWISH REGN’S ‘GAY’ FLAG IS KOSHER!

” The flag is spired by a siar flag ed by French opponents of gay marriage. The provisn has been cricized by Rsian LGBT activists, who say would effectively prevent gay marriage om ever beg legalized. Thursday also marks the 42nd anniversary of the rabow flag’s first appearance as a gay pri symbol at the 1978 Pri para San Francis.

Displays of the rabow flag are unmon Rsia, where the display of “homosexual propaganda toward mors” is outlawed and tolerant attus toward the LGBT muny persist. Has long been cril of Rsia's gay rights rerd. Rsian Print Vladimir Put's Uned Rsia party has urted ntroversy by unveilg a flag celebratg heterosexual "real fai" rponse to the US cisn to legalise gay marriage.