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Contents:
- GEIA IS A TERRIBLE PLACE TO BE GAY
- CHECHNYA’S ANTI-GAY POGROM
- GEIA: MOST ACCEPTG OF GAY MUNY CS REGN
- THE HISTORY OF HOMOSEXUALY RSIA: OM SOVIET SEX CHANG TO GAY GULAGS
- ACTIVISTS: CHECHEN AUTHORI ORR FAI TO KILL LGBT FAY MEMBERS, ALSO PAY RANSOMS
GEIA IS A TERRIBLE PLACE TO BE GAY
The Hoton LGBTQ+ Polil Cc is dited to elimatg prejudice, vlence, and jtice agast gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr, and queer people. * caucasus gay *
Across the Cs, strict patriarchal polici, sexism, and homophobia are mon, and many people om the LGBTQ muny risk persecutn if their inty is disvered.
CHECHNYA’S ANTI-GAY POGROM
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has adopted today a rolutn on alleged vlatns of the rights of lbian, gay, bisexua * caucasus gay *
There was an openly gay man and an open lbian woman at our school: but [I always thought about how] that boy was om a nice fay, how he had nothg to lose.
It was my own bra tryg to work out if I was homophobic or not. Ultimately, LGBTQ people are leavg the republic, and so did I — gay men have easier northern Rsia. Wh time, has bee clear to me that until I me out to myself, my ternalised homophobia wasn’t gog anywhere, and the world wasn’t gog to bee a better place.
I’m openly gay and have been wrg posts on social media about my orientatn sce 2017. As the global LGBT muny marks Pri Month, lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr people face growg, state-sanctned homophobia and vlence Rsia, activists say. In s World Report 2023, the New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) noted that Rsia has adopted “new, homophobic legislatn and ramped up homophobic…rhetoric.
GEIA: MOST ACCEPTG OF GAY MUNY CS REGN
Geia has sred hight the Cs regn and 22nd Europe the latt review of how lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and tersex (LGBTI) people experience human rights across the ntent by mpaign group ILGA-Europe. * caucasus gay *
Mama always knew that I was gay. I nnot image anythg better for a [gay] Chechen than havg your mother stop talkg about marryg you off or curg you and, stead, jt treatg you normally. I realized that a wch hunt agast gays was gog on Chechnya back 2017 om the woman I worked for.
THE HISTORY OF HOMOSEXUALY RSIA: OM SOVIET SEX CHANG TO GAY GULAGS
Wh Rsia set to host next year’s Wter Olympics, ternatnal attentn is focsed on the untry’s relatnship wh s gay and lbian cizens. * caucasus gay *
Recently I found my younger brother on a gay datg se. Turns out he is eher bisexual or gay.
If my relativ fd out that two brothers one fay are gay, they will take very badly. He don’t nsir himself gay.
I have always been amazed that there are famo gays and nothg happens to them, but ordary guys go to one wrong meetg and that’s . About 97 percent of gay datg announcements are traps.
ACTIVISTS: CHECHEN AUTHORI ORR FAI TO KILL LGBT FAY MEMBERS, ALSO PAY RANSOMS
A lot of gays extort other gays. Our MissnFound 1975, the Hoton LGBTQ+ Polil Cc is dited to elimatg prejudice, vlence, and jtice agast lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer people through tn, activism, and polil advocy. On Augt 3, ne gay-right activists were beaten up Armenia by dozens of people, acrdg to the Pk Armenia activist anizatn.