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AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY, A RSIAN VLIST'S NEW REALY
A 23-year-old, Rsian-born vlist named Artem Kolov is pturg ternatnal attentn after postg a YouTube vio which he out as gay. "In my fay, " Kolov says his vio, "I often heard that all gays should be stroyed, that they should be bombed, and that if anyone our fay turns out to be gay, my fay should kill them wh their bare hands. Growg up, he says, "I never heard anythg good about gay people.
VLON GAY
All I knew was that gays are the people who everyone should hate. I was sred bee I knew that I was gay. It seemed that I was the only gay person Rsia.
"They are ashamed to have a gay son and brother, " he says. Intertg that my fay is proud of me for beg a vlist, and is so ashamed of me for beg gay, though both of the are parts of my inty.
VLON GAY
He has received many posive msag om iends and strangers alike, but he said that he is aaid of beg arrted if he returns to Rsia, unr enforcement of a vaguely word but broad "anti-gay propaganda" law. Earlier this month, there were reports that more than 100 gay men Chechnya were arrted and tortured, wh some of them reportedly killed by police.