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• 'GAY TATTOO' CHECK FOR RSIAN ARY RECS KREML'S LATT CLAMPDOWN ON HOMOSEXUALY
• THE FILM PUT DON’T WANT THE WORLD TO SEE: FIREBIRD, A GAY LOVE STORY ABOUT FIGHTER PILOTS
• THE ELE GAY ARMY OF ANCIENT GREECETHE SACRED BAND OF THEB FEATED EVEN THE SPARTANSPETER PRKAR·FOLLOWPUBLISHED LSONS OM HISTORY·4 M READ·OCT 11, 2020--3SHAREGREEK WARRRS — ARTISTIC IMAGE (IMAGE:ARTSTATN/@ALIAKSANDR TRYZON)THE SACRED BAND WAS AN ELE ARY UN OM THEB PRISG 150 GAY UPL. AT THE BATTLE OF LCTRA 371 BC, THE 300 GAY WARRRS LED THE THEBAN ARMY AGAST THE SPARTAN ARMY. THE THEBANS WON AND SHATTERED THE SPARTAN NTROL OF GREECE.THE GREEK VIEW ON GAY WARRRSA MALE UPLE ENGAGG TERCRAL SEX. DEPICTED ON ANCIENT GREEK POTTERY (IMAGE: WIKIMEDIA COMMONS)THE THEBANS BELIEVED GAY WARRRS FOUGHT BETTER ORR TO IMPRS AND PROTECT THEIR LOVERS. IF A LOVER FELL DURG A BATTLE, HIS PARTNER WOULD FIGHT EVEN HARR TO AVENGE HIS ATH.THREE THOAND YEARS AGO ANCIENT GREECE, BEG GAY OR LBIAN WAS NOT A CRIME. IN FACT, CERTA SUATNS, THE GREEKS EVEN ENURAGED HOMOSEXUAL RELATNSHIPS.YOUNG BOYS EXCHANGED ROMANTIC FAVORS FOR THE KNOWLEDGE PROVID BY THEIR OLR TUTORS. FATHERS WOULD PRAY TO THE GODS FOR THEIR SONS TO BE ATTRACTIVE BEE MEANT A BETTER MENTOR. SUCH RELATNSHIPS LASTED UNTIL THE YOUNG BOYS REACHED ADULTHOOD.SOLDIERS WOULD FORM ROMANTIC RELATNSHIPS WH ONE ANOTHER TO BOOST THEIR MORALE.THE GREEK SOCIETY DIFFERENTIATED BETWEEN ACTIVE AND PASSIVE ROL BOTH GENRS TOOK DURG SEX. AN ACTIVE ROLE, BEG A PERATOR, MEANT MASCULY, ADULTHOOD, AND PRTIGE. A PASSIVE ROLE, BEG PERATED, REPRENTED FEMY, YOUTH, AND SHAME.FOR A RECEIVG PARTNER, ANAL SEX WAS MEANG. INSTEAD, THEY ENGAGED TERCRAL SEX.THE MEMBERS OF THE SACRED BAND OF THEB WERE ROMANTIC PARTNERS. THEY LLED AN OLR PARTNER THE ERAST (‘LOVER’) AND A YOUNGER ONE THE EROMENOS (‘BELOVED’). EACH PAIR EXCHANGED SACRED VOWS AT THE TEMPLE OF IOLS, THE LOVER OF HERACL.FACTS ABOUT THE SACRED BAND OF THEB
• IN RSIA, GAY PEOPLE ARE ROUTELY TARGETED. THAT’S WHY THIS UKRAIAN SOLDIER IS FIGHTG.
• BT GAY MILARY
• ARMY’S FIRST OPENLY GAY GENERAL RETIR AFTER SPIRG OTHERS

'GAY TATTOO' CHECK FOR RSIAN ARY RECS KREML'S LATT CLAMPDOWN ON HOMOSEXUALY

Conscripts and ntract soldiers to be given a thorough examatn Special attentn to tattoos near the face, sexual ans and buttocks But many officers have already rejected the 'impractil' guil Com amid recent backlash agast homosexualy and Wtern valuAlmost a third of Rsians thk homosexualy is rult of 'a sickns' Published: 13:48 BST, 24 January 2013 | Updated: 15:19 BST, 24 January 2013 Rsian ary recs are to be checked for certa typ of tattoo which thori believe uld reveal signs of homosexualy unr new technil guil issued om the Kreml. Tattoo checks: Recs jog the Rsian ary are to be examed for any timate tattoos which uld reveal homosexualy unr new guil issued by the Kreml Checkups: Recs show doctors their tongu, durg a medil examatn the Siberian cy of Kemerovo The text reads: 'The reason for gettg tattoos uld dite a low cultural or tnal level.

Kreml: Many wh the Rsian ernment are agast the promotn of homosexualy and wtern valu Officers are advised to chat wh nscripts about their sexual experience and nduct. '" While the Rsian ary holds tradnal views on sexualy, a UN report om 2007 stated homosexualy and male prostutn is mon wh the UN Internatnal Panel for Stggle agast Sexual Exploatn found that some soldiers voluntarily offer their servic while others are forced to prostutn.

The battaln chief assistant add: 'I had one gay ntract soldier who joed jt to fd more partners for himself.

THE FILM PUT DON’T WANT THE WORLD TO SEE: FIREBIRD, A GAY LOVE STORY ABOUT FIGHTER PILOTS

'The move is the latt a seri of proposed clampdowns on homosexualy cludg new legislatn which aims to promote tradnal the terms of a bill that up for a first vote later this month, a public kiss between two men uld be fed as illegal 'homosexual propaganda' and brg a fe of up to £10, 000 The legislatn beg phed by the Kreml and the Rsian Orthodox Church would make illegal to tell mors rmatn that is fed as ‘propaganda of sodomy, lbianism, bisexualy and transgenrism. ’ It also clus a ban on holdg public events that promote gay rights.

The Orthodox Church Rsia has mand a natnal referendum on crimalisg gay relatnships a move certa to epen nflict wh the Wt.

Picuttured: Officers ta gay right activists durg a prott Mosw The bill is part of an effort to promote tradnal Rsian valu as opposed to Wtern liberalism, which the Kreml and church see as rptg Rsian youth and ntributg to a wave of prott agast Print Vladimir Put's le, Fox News laws that the Kreml says are tend to protect young Rsians have been adopted recent months, cludg some that allow banng and blockg web ntent and prt publitns that are emed ‘extremist’ or unf for young Volkov, a soclogist wh the Levada Center, an pennt pollster, says the anti-gay bill fs the ‘general logic’ of a ernment tent on limg var this se, the move has been met mostly wh eher difference or open enthiasm by average Rsians. Prott: Rsian police officers ta a gay rights activist durg an attempt to hold a gay pri para Mosw May 2012 Levada polls nducted last year show that almost two thirds of Rsians fd homosexualy ‘morally unacceptable and worth nmng.

THE ELE GAY ARMY OF ANCIENT GREECETHE SACRED BAND OF THEB FEATED EVEN THE SPARTANSPETER PRKAR·FOLLOWPUBLISHED LSONS OM HISTORY·4 M READ·OCT 11, 2020--3SHAREGREEK WARRRS — ARTISTIC IMAGE (IMAGE:ARTSTATN/@ALIAKSANDR TRYZON)THE SACRED BAND WAS AN ELE ARY UN OM THEB PRISG 150 GAY UPL. AT THE BATTLE OF LCTRA 371 BC, THE 300 GAY WARRRS LED THE THEBAN ARMY AGAST THE SPARTAN ARMY. THE THEBANS WON AND SHATTERED THE SPARTAN NTROL OF GREECE.THE GREEK VIEW ON GAY WARRRSA MALE UPLE ENGAGG TERCRAL SEX. DEPICTED ON ANCIENT GREEK POTTERY (IMAGE: WIKIMEDIA COMMONS)THE THEBANS BELIEVED GAY WARRRS FOUGHT BETTER ORR TO IMPRS AND PROTECT THEIR LOVERS. IF A LOVER FELL DURG A BATTLE, HIS PARTNER WOULD FIGHT EVEN HARR TO AVENGE HIS ATH.THREE THOAND YEARS AGO ANCIENT GREECE, BEG GAY OR LBIAN WAS NOT A CRIME. IN FACT, CERTA SUATNS, THE GREEKS EVEN ENURAGED HOMOSEXUAL RELATNSHIPS.YOUNG BOYS EXCHANGED ROMANTIC FAVORS FOR THE KNOWLEDGE PROVID BY THEIR OLR TUTORS. FATHERS WOULD PRAY TO THE GODS FOR THEIR SONS TO BE ATTRACTIVE BEE MEANT A BETTER MENTOR. SUCH RELATNSHIPS LASTED UNTIL THE YOUNG BOYS REACHED ADULTHOOD.SOLDIERS WOULD FORM ROMANTIC RELATNSHIPS WH ONE ANOTHER TO BOOST THEIR MORALE.THE GREEK SOCIETY DIFFERENTIATED BETWEEN ACTIVE AND PASSIVE ROL BOTH GENRS TOOK DURG SEX. AN ACTIVE ROLE, BEG A PERATOR, MEANT MASCULY, ADULTHOOD, AND PRTIGE. A PASSIVE ROLE, BEG PERATED, REPRENTED FEMY, YOUTH, AND SHAME.FOR A RECEIVG PARTNER, ANAL SEX WAS MEANG. INSTEAD, THEY ENGAGED TERCRAL SEX.THE MEMBERS OF THE SACRED BAND OF THEB WERE ROMANTIC PARTNERS. THEY LLED AN OLR PARTNER THE ERAST (‘LOVER’) AND A YOUNGER ONE THE EROMENOS (‘BELOVED’). EACH PAIR EXCHANGED SACRED VOWS AT THE TEMPLE OF IOLS, THE LOVER OF HERACL.FACTS ABOUT THE SACRED BAND OF THEB

’ About half are agast gay ralli and same-sex marriage; almost a third thk homosexualy is the rult of ‘a sickns or a psychologil trma, ’ the Levada surveys show. Rsia's wispread hostily to homosexualy is shared by the polil and relig ele.

Lawmakers have acced homosexuals of creasg Rsia's already low birth rat and said they should be barred om ernment jobs, unrgo forced medil treatment or be exiled.

Pany PepsiCo for g a ‘gay’ rabow on rtons of s dairy products. A man drsed a bridal gown screams out of a police vehicle after he was taed In a gay rights prott December, Pavel Samburov, founr of gay-rights group the Rabow Associatn, was pelted wh eggs by ant activists wh the Orthodox Church sends after he and his boyiend was arrted by police, fed £10 and taed for 30 hours first a ozen van and then an unheated tentn Orthodox activists were also round up, but were released much behd the bill say mors need to be protected om ‘homosexual propaganda’ bee they are unable to evaluate the rmatn crilly.

IN RSIA, GAY PEOPLE ARE ROUTELY TARGETED. THAT’S WHY THIS UKRAIAN SOLDIER IS FIGHTG.

The bill reads: ‘This propaganda go through the mass media and public events that propagate homosexualy as normal behavr'.

Rsian ci started adoptg anti-gay laws 2006.

BT GAY MILARY

Only one person has been prosecuted so far unr a law specifilly targeted at homosexuals: Nikolai Alexeyev, a gay rights mpaigner, was fed the equivalent of £100 after a one-man prott last summer St. 7ln damag for what says was ‘propaganda of perversn’ when Madonna spoke up for gay rights durg a show three months earlier.

Rsian special police forc arrt a homosexual activist. Homosexuals are subject to official prsure and persistent homophobia The feral bill's expected adoptn 20 years after a Stalist-era law punishg homosexualy wh up to five years prison was removed om Rsia's penal as part of the mocratic reforms that followed the Soviet Unn's of the other former Soviet republics also crimalised homosexualy, and attus toward gays have bee a lm tt of mocratic eedoms.

ARMY’S FIRST OPENLY GAY GENERAL RETIR AFTER SPIRG OTHERS

While gay pri paras are held the three former Soviet Baltic stat, all today members of the European Unn, same-sex love remas a crime thorarian Turkmenistan and Rsia, homosexuals have been subject to official prsure and persistent homophobia. There are no reliable timat of how many gay men and women live Rsia, and only a few big ci such as Mosw and St. Petersburg have gay nightclubs and gyms.

Even there, homosexuals do not feel secure. “Beg gay was a crimal offence. ” Rebane knew he was gay at the age of ne.