LGBT Ukraians terrified of Rsia's war on gay and transgenr people - Los Angel Tim

Contents:

• ‘I’M AAID FOR MY FUTURE’: PROPOSED LAWS THREATEN GAY LIFE RSIA
• MAN WHO CLAIMS 'PUT'S CHEF' IS GAY INV SKEPTICS TO MEET HIM
• RSIAN PRINT VLADIMIR PUT IS 'LATENTLY GAY,' ALLEG CONTROVERSIAL NEW BGRAPHY
• RSIA BANS IMAGE 'HTG' THAT PUT IS GAY
• VLADIMIR DUTHIERS B, WIFE OR PARTNER, GAY, PARENTS
• VLADIMIR PUT’S WAR ON GAYS
• PUT SHAR THOUGHTS ON SHOWERG WH GAY MEN AND MENSTAL CYCL
• TCHAIKOVSKY MAY HAVE BEEN GAY, PUT RELUCTANTLY ADMS
• IS VLADIMIR PUT GAY?
• PUT TALKS GAY RIGHTS ON 60 MUT

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

Though Rsia crimalized homosexualy 1993, amendments to the Rsian Constutn 2020 banned LGBTQ+ unns the untry — an actn that was clared a human rights vlatn by the European Court of Human Rights. Put has even prevly said that Rsia mt "cleanse" self of homosexualy.

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

Rsia has also been cricized recent years for s treatment of LGBTQ+ people Chechnya, whose mayor nounced homosexualy 2017, statg "We don't have those kds of people here. 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.

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

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. They were tryg to ply wh a 2013 Rsian law that bans exposg mors to anythg that uld be nsired “gay propaganda. ”The anizers had good reason to be wary: Life has been challengg for gay Rsians sce the law passed, as the ernment has treated gay life as a Wtern import that is harmful to tradnal Rsian valu and Rsia’s Parliament is set to pass a legislative package that would ban all “gay propaganda, ” signalg an even more difficult perd ahead for a stigmatized segment of laws would prohib reprentatn of L.

RSIA BANS IMAGE 'HTG' THAT PUT IS GAY

Exprsn wh s ratnale for the war Ukrae, sistg that Rsia is fightg not jt Ukrae but all of NATO, a Wtern alliance that reprents a threat to the Put drove home that argument a speech last week, sayg that the Wt n have “dozens of genrs and gay pri paras, ” but that should not try to spread the “trends” elsewhere.

VLADIMIR DUTHIERS B, WIFE OR PARTNER, GAY, PARENTS

Aleksandr Khste, a puty om the lg Uned Rsia party and the lead thor of the new anti-gay bills, was even more blunt. Lunchenkov said that 2010, when he was school, he felt that he uld exprs his gay inty eely among his classmat.

Olenichev said that though the police do not track hate crim agast queer people, he and his lleagu have noticed an crease clients who have suffered inty-based attacks sce rhetoric behd anti-gay laws may have dangero nsequenc for gay Rsians, said Vladimir Komov, a lawyer wh the group Delo 2013 law was promoted as protectg children, while the new on “seek to prohib gay propaganda as a danger to the state system, ” fg as extremism, he Lunchenkov said the proposed laws uld leave gay people “aaid to go to medil clics to get treatment or ttg” for sexually transmted diseas. ”Some gay Rsians doubt that the new laws will greatly affect them.

VLADIMIR PUT’S WAR ON GAYS

“I am more sred of beg drafted to fight the war than for beg arrted bee I am gay, ” said Andrei Melnikov, 19. Lawmakers llg gays a danger on a par wh war “is more funny than sry, ” he now, gay Rsians and their alli have found exprsn spe rtrictive laws.

A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 7 of the New York edn wh the headle: Life for Gay Rsians Is About to Get Worse.

Rsian Print Vladimir Put has said his untry is tolerant of the homosexual, bisexual and trans muni but drew a le at children intifyg wh several genr rol.

PUT SHAR THOUGHTS ON SHOWERG WH GAY MEN AND MENSTAL CYCL

"I am not tryg to sult anyone bee we have been nmned for our alleged homophobia.

Beg gay isn't a crime Rsia, but no specific laws protect non-heterosexuals om discrimatn eher. The Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn ranked Rsia at 46 among European natns, above only Armenia, Turkey and Azerbaijan. As part of s annual Gay Travel Inx, the Spartac Internatnal Gay Gui gave Rsia a dismal rankg of 159 out of 197 untri and separately sred the untry's regn of Chechnya last, below even Iran, Sdi Arabia and Chechen Republic has been lled out by var ternatnal watchdogs for allegedly vlently reprsg members of the LGBTQ muny.

A 2017 Human Rights Watch tailed arbrary tament, torture and even executn affectg those emed to have homosexual tennci.

TCHAIKOVSKY MAY HAVE BEEN GAY, PUT RELUCTANTLY ADMS

A poll published last year by the Levada Center found that some 83 percent of Rsians, general, felt gay sex was "always reprehensible" or "almost always reprehensible. " While Rsia crimalized homosexualy after the fall of the Soviet Unn, has never put to place any protectns agast discrimatg agast the LGBTQ fact, Mosw's parliament passed a bill 2013 "for the Purpose of Protectg Children om Informatn Advotg for a Denial of Tradnal Fay Valu" that banned the distributn of "propaganda of non-tradnal sexual relatnships" among mors. The Spartac Internatnal Gay Gui ranked the U.

At 47, notg that both there and Brazil "right-wg nservative ernments have troduced iativ to revoke LGBT rights achieved the past, " leadg "to an crease homophobic and transphobic vlence. 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.

IS VLADIMIR PUT GAY?

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. A recently circulated vio purports to show a man who served prison time wh Prigozh claimg that he is gay.

Rsian Print Vladimir Put is a sexls man who may be secretly gay.

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 TALKS GAY RIGHTS ON 60 MUT

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.

The world famo classil gay pianist Vladimir Horowz is quoted as once sayg 'There are three typ of pianists: Jewish, gay, and bad'. Wh historilly closeted homosexuals, one n often terpret a stra of personal tratn or secret passn their work. Boy Band Members Who Are Out As Gay, Bisexual or Queer.

But publishg a retouched photograph of Put's face ma up drag -- suggtg he is gay -- uld now have ser nsequenc.