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Contents:
- RSIA: EXPAND 'GAY PROPAGANDA' BAN PROGRS TOWARD LAW
- ‘I’M AAID FOR MY FUTURE’: PROPOSED LAWS THREATEN GAY LIFE RSIA
- RSIAN NSTUTN CHANGE ENDS HOP FOR GAY MARRIAGE
- 'WE'RE NOT HIDG': GAY AND LBIAN RSIANS SAY A CULTURAL SHIFT IS UNRWAY
- GAY TIKTOK UPLE ARRTED RSIA
RSIA: EXPAND 'GAY PROPAGANDA' BAN PROGRS TOWARD LAW
A ntroversial law preventg sharg rmatn about gay people wh children is set to apply to all. * russkiy gay *
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.
‘I’M AAID FOR MY FUTURE’: PROPOSED LAWS THREATEN GAY LIFE RSIA
An anizatn that provis legal and unselg assistance to lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people Rsia's Far East has been listed as a "foreign agent." * russkiy gay *
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. In July, about a week after the Kreml phed through nstutnal amendments that clu fg marriage as a unn between a man and woman, Tsvetkova was fed for a send time unr the untry’s notor “gay propaganda” law and forced to pay 75, 000 Rubl ($1000) over her lorful illtratns of same-sex upl and their young children.
RSIAN NSTUTN CHANGE ENDS HOP FOR GAY MARRIAGE
Mizula lost support bee of the “tremendo level of public outrage about the bill’s homophobia and transphobia, ” Jonny Dzhibladze, a ordator at Vykhod (“Comg Out”), a St. A year later Put passed the so-lled “gay propaganda” law, which bans rmatn emed to promote homosexualy to mors.
They urged the thori to protect the activist, who says she has received ath threats om an anonymo homophobic work lled Saw that publish the nam and ntacts of LGBTQ people, and lls for vlence agast them. It’s not as homophobic as our officials and relig lears thk, ” she says. In 2009, Rsia’s most proment opposn figure Alexei Navalny suggted that gay people uld “olic” a rdoned stadium rather than public a Pri Para.
More recently, June, he acced the ernment of gog “pletely crazy” after pro-Kreml media group Patrt released a homophobic polil advert.
'WE'RE NOT HIDG': GAY AND LBIAN RSIANS SAY A CULTURAL SHIFT IS UNRWAY
But as a printial ndidate 2018, she clud same-sex civil unns and the liftg of the “gay propaganda” law her polil program. “Homophobia is a daily realy Rsia”.
In December 2022, Rsia expand s existg “gay propaganda” law to exert ntrol over public discsns and narrativ surroundg non-heterosexual relatnships and inti.
GAY TIKTOK UPLE ARRTED RSIA
The proposals prohib sharg posive and even ntral rmatn about lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people, and publicly displayg non-heterosexual orientatns, wh hefty f for nonpliance.
The origal “gay propaganda” ban, troduced 2013, purported to protect children om “propaganda, ” broadly fed to mean any posive or ntral pictn or discsn of non-heterosexual relatns.
The draft legislatn classifi displays of non-heterosexual relatns or orientatn as “rmatn harmful to children’s health and velopment” and provis that webs and other onle sourc hostg rmatn about lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people n be blocked.