Two members of Rammste kissed durg a ncert spe Rsia's gay propaganda law

Contents:

• RAMMSTEIN FRONTMAN: IT'S VERY EASY FOR GAY MEN TO GET LAID
• RAMMSTE MEMBERS KISS ONSTAGE RSIA DEFIANCE OF "GAY PROPAGANDA LAW"
• GAY RIGHTS
• THE U.S. & JAMAI ARE FIGHTG OVER GAY RIGHTS
• GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT
• ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL

RAMMSTEIN FRONTMAN: IT'S VERY EASY FOR GAY MEN TO GET LAID

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.

Till Lmann om Rammste (AP Photo)Rammste rockers Pl Lanrs and Richard Kspe took a stand agast Rsia’s anti-LGBTQ laws by kissg onstage durg a ncert the German micians – who are both guar players the heavy metal band - locked lips durg a performance of their song Alanr at Rsia’s Luzhniki Stadium earlier this was an ternatnal outcry 2013 when Rsia passed what is known as the “gay propaganda law”, and many have said that the legislatn has ma the untry a hostile environment for LGBTQ more: Rammste set for stadium tourHowever, Lanrs and Kspe were clearly unterred by the policy as they leaned and puckered up onstage ont of thoands of their group also reerated their statement by later sharg a photo of the moment on Instagram. 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.

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.

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

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. There, on June 30th, 2013, print Vladimir Put enacted a feral law known as "for the Purpose of Protectg Children From Informatn Advotg for a Denial of Tradnal Fay Valu, " or lloquially referred to as the "gay propaganda law.

Two members of the German heavy metal band Rammste shared a kiss on stage durg a ncert Mosw what was seen by many as a pledge of support for the Rsian LGBTQ the show Luzhniki Stadium on Tuday, guarists Pl Lanrs and Richard Kspe shared the kiss durg a performance of the song "Alanr, " The Gay Tim image of the moment was put up on the band's Instagram page, along wh the msage Rsian: "Rsia, we love you! "It is not the first time that the band, which is renowned for s spectacular live shows, has shown support for gay rights on this tour. Lanrs and Kspe have kissed several tim before durg their European tour, wh fans dubbg the pair "Plchard, " The Inpennt Poland, followg reports that LGBT-ee zone stickers are beg distributed by the newspaper Gazeta Polska, band members waved rabow flags on stage and ontman Till Lmann crowdsurfed a bber dghy, The Gay Tim reported.

GAY RIGHTS

Homosexualy is not illegal Rsia but activists say that the so-lled "gay propaganda" law has ma the untry a hostile place for the LGBTQ 21 July, a proment LGBT+ activist was found ad St Petersburg, havg been strangled and stabbed.

It was referencg the purge spearhead by Chechnya's thori 2017, which men spected of beg gay were btally March, Rammste was at the center of ntroversy after was cricized by the Israeli foreign mistry over a vio for their song "Dtschland" that outled the history of Germany and clud btal Nazi imagery. They have been makg siar statements alot on their recent European tour, however, Rsia particularly flew the face of the gay propoganda law signed by Put 2013.

THE U.S. & JAMAI ARE FIGHTG OVER GAY RIGHTS

The law was apparently passed “to protect children om beg exposed to homosexualy… unr the argument that ntradicts tradnal fay valu. The moment was wily praised for s fiance of Rsia’s “gay propaganda” law, which prohibs “the promotn of non-tradnal sexual relatnships” to rights advot say the broad law, adopted 2013, is harmful to LGBTQ youth — preventg them om accsg tnal rmatn and rourc cludg mental health servic.

As The Washgton Post’s Reis Theblt reported, Grigorieva’s name had recently appeared, alongsi those of other activists and journalists, on a Rsian webse enuragg s ers to “hunt” gay people. In recent years, the untry has faced particular cricism over wispread human rights ab — cludg the reported executns of gay men — s republic of Mosw, where Rammste brought s Europe Stadium Tour this week, is illegal to hold a pri para. The Early Gay Rights Movement In 1924, Henry Gerber, a German immigrant, found Chigo the Society for Human Rights, the first documented gay rights anizatn the Uned Stat.

Army service World War I, Gerber was spired to create his anizatn by the Scientific-Humanarian Commtee, a “homosexual emancipatn” group ’s small group published a few issu of s newsletter “Friendship and Freedom, ” the untry’s first gay-tert newsletter. Ernment signated Gerber’s Chigo hoe a Natnal Historic Pk TriangleCorbis/Getty ImagHomosexual prisoners at the ncentratn mp at Sachsenhsen, Germany, wearg pk triangl on their uniforms on December 19, gay rights movement stagnated for the next few s, though LGBT dividuals around the world did e to the spotlight a few example, English poet and thor Radclyffe Hall stirred up ntroversy 1928 when she published her lbian-themed novel, The Well of Lonels. And durg World War II, the Nazis held homosexual men ncentratn mps, brandg them wh the famo pk triangle badge, which was also given to sexual predators.

GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT

Addnally, 1948, his book Sexual Behavr the Human Male, Aled Ksey proposed that male sexual orientatn li on a ntuum between exclively homosexual to exclively Homophile Years In 1950, Harry Hay found the Mattache Foundatn, one of the natn’s first gay rights group. ”Though started off small, the foundatn, which sought to improve the liv of gay men through discsn groups and related activi, expand after foundg member Dale Jenngs was arrted 1952 for solicatn and then later set ee due to a adlocked the end of the year, Jenngs formed another anizatn lled One, Inc., which weled women and published ONE, the untry’s first pro-gay magaze. Post Office, which 1954 clared the magaze “obscene” and refed to liver Mattache Society Mattache Foundatn members rtctured the anizatn to form the Mattache Society, which had lol chapters other parts of the untry and 1955 began publishg the untry’s send gay publitn, The Mattache Review.

ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL

That same year, four lbian upl San Francis found an anizatn lled the Dghters of Bilis, which soon began publishg a newsletter lled The Ladr, the first lbian publitn of any early years of the movement also faced some notable setbacks: the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn listed homosexualy as a form of mental disorr followg year, Print Dwight D. Eisenhower signed an executive orr that banned gay people—or, more specifilly, people guilty of “sexual perversn”—om feral jobs. In 1961, Illois beme the first state to do away wh s anti-sodomy laws, effectively crimalizg homosexualy, and a lol TV statn California aired the first documentary about homosexualy, lled The 1965, Dr.

In fact, gay men and women New York Cy uld not be served alhol public due to liquor laws that nsired the gatherg of homosexuals to be “disorrly. ”In fear of beg shut down by thori, bartenrs would ny drks to patrons spected of beg gay or kick them out altogether; others would serve them drks but force them to s facg away om other ctomers to prevent them om 1966, members of the Mattache Society New York Cy staged a “sip-”—a twist on the “s-” protts of the 1960s— which they vised taverns, clared themselv gay, and waed to be turned away so they uld sue. They were nied service at the Greenwich Village tavern Juli, rultg much publicy and the quick reversal of the anti-gay liquor Stonewall Inn A few years later, 1969, a now-famo event talyzed the gay rights movement: The Stonewall clanste gay club Stonewall Inn was an stutn Greenwich Village bee was large, cheap, allowed dancg and weled drag queens and homels the early hours of June 28, 1969, New York Cy police raid the Stonewall Inn.

Sylvia Rivera was a Lata-Amerin drag queen who beme one of the most radil gay and transgenr activists of the 1960s and '70s. As -founr of the Gay Liberatn Front, Rivera was known for participatg the Stonewall Rts and tablishg the polil anizatn STAR (Street Transvte Actn Revolutnari).