Rammste Members Kiss Onstage Rsia Defiance of "Gay Propaganda Law" | Revolver

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• RAMMSTE MEMBERS KISS ONSTAGE RSIA DEFIANCE OF "GAY PROPAGANDA LAW"
• RAMMSTE’S KISS AND THE GAY SI OF “ROOTS BLOODY ROOTS”, ON THE NEW HBFM

RAMMSTE MEMBERS KISS ONSTAGE RSIA DEFIANCE OF "GAY PROPAGANDA LAW"

Passed 2013 by Print Vladimir Put, Rsia’s “gay propaganda” law bans materials that would “[prent] distorted ias about the equal social value of tradnal and non-tradnal sexual relatnships. ” Conmned by human rights groups like Amnty Internatnal and Human Rights Watch, the law sentially renrs illegal Rsia to exprs any kd of homosexualy and genr-non-nformy public; Elton John recently penned an open letter to Put after his bpic Rocketman was eded due to the law. Rsia has also seen an uptick homophobic vlence sce the passage of the law.

RAMMSTE’S KISS AND THE GAY SI OF “ROOTS BLOODY ROOTS”, ON THE NEW HBFM

Rammste’s kiss a month after the murr of LGBTQ activist Yelena Grigoryeva, whose name was listed on a Rsian webse that offers priz for “huntg” gay people and their advot.

The gay propaganda law is also enforced agast foreigners, who may be arrted and taed for up to 15 days, or fed up to 5, 000 bl, then ported. "Earlier the month, RAMMSTEIN surprised fans durg a ncert Chorzów, Poland by wavg rabow and Polish flags while travellg om one stage to another ltle flatable Kołodziejczyk, head of the lol LGBT foundatn Stowarzyszenie Tęczówka, said the band reached out to them prr to the ncert and asked to borrow the move was wily seen as the band's rponse to recent events Poland where attacks on the LGBT people by extremist far-right natnalists are on the 2013, Rsia passed a ntroversial law that n see people arrted for behavr that is emed to promote law provis for Rsian cizens engaged the "propaganda of non-tradnal sexual orientatn" to be fed, while foreigners n be arrted and immediately Mosw Tim reported May that nearly half of Rsians support equal rights for members of the LGBT muny, markg the hight level of support 14 percent of Rsian rponnts agreed that gays and lbians should enjoy the same rights as other cizens, while 43 percent disagreed.

Back 2005, RAMMSTEIN volist Till Lmann nied that the lyrics to the band's ntroversial sgle "Mann Gegen Mann" ("Man Agast Man") were homophobic. "It's about gay men and the fact that they're lucky a way.

"I'm not gog to give out any name, but an English band that we [RAMMSTEIN] are iends wh has two gay members, " he add.

"We ma a bet about somethg and if I were to lose I had to take the two of them out Berl one night and vis all the gay clubs my neighborhood. While an onstage kiss may seem somewhat tame for the group, Rsia, uld be nsired a crimal offense — while the untry do not have any laws that directly outlaw homosexualy, their “gay propoganda” law outlaws any and all “propaganda of nontradnal sexual relatns, ” acrdg to The Guardian.

In Chechnya, a feral subject of Rsia, both 2017 and 2019, dozens of gay men were taed and held by the ernment for beg gay, wh at least 2 beg killed, acrdg to activists. The group’s dmmer, Christoph Schneir, shared a photo on Instagram of himself wavg a rabow flag durg their tour stop Poland followg an anti-gay attack on the first Pri march the nservative town of Bialystock.

(The send person sgular (“du”) forms of the words “hassen” (to hate) and “haben” (to have) are homophon).