Rsia to Gays: Shut Up and Disappear - The Bulwark

Contents:

• GAY MAN RSIA FORCED TO HIDG OVER YOUTUBE TERVIEW
• ANTI-GAY VIRAL VIO STIRS OUTRAGE AHEAD OF RSIAN REFERENDUM
• THE FILM PUT DON’T WANT THE WORLD TO SEE: FIREBIRD, A GAY LOVE STORY ABOUT FIGHTER PILOTS
• GAY MAN RSIA BEATEN AND RAPED ON CAMERA HORRIFIC VIRAL VIO
• GAY MAN IN RSIA APPARENTLY RAPED BY VIGILANT ON VIO
• RSIA TO GAYS: SHUT UP AND DISAPPEAR
• INSI THE IRON CLOSET: WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE GAY PUT'S RSIA
• NEO-NAZI WHO TORTURED GAY PEOPLE VIRAL VIOS DI PRISON OF SUICI

GAY MAN RSIA FORCED TO HIDG OVER YOUTUBE TERVIEW

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. Wh a day of s publitn, the Natnal Air Transport Agency (Rosaviatsiya) announced would open an vtigatn to “this ugly se” prsure om the regnal ernor, the rector of the Ulyanovsk Instute of Civil Aviatn, Sergei Krasnov, likened the ts’ suatn to Psy such an “unfivable” disgrace to veterans, he said, they uld be expelled, perhaps, even, tried unr Rsia’s ntroversial anti-homosexual laws. - The world's first fe art photography magaze dited to queer and gay 2 - the Pri Issue featur ten photographers om ne untri: AY (UK), David Charl Colls (Atralia), Matthew Fley (USA), Ashish Gupta (India), Manuel Monyo (Mexi), Juan Anton Papagni Me (Argenta), Sebastian Perotti (Argenta), Mric A.

It now reprents more than 67 photographers om 27 untri - cludg Cha, India, Iran, Poland, Rsia and Turkey where gay rights are reprsed and queer liv unr nstant have been onle and physil exhibns, and two sold out BOYS! “By turng a bld eye to hateful homophobic rhetoric and vlence, Rsian thori are sendg a dangero msage as the world is about to arrive on s doorstep for the Olympics that there is nothg wrong wh attacks on gay people, ” said Tanya Cooper, a Rsia rearcher at Human Rights Watch.

Rsian thori’ failure to act, upled wh threats of exile and officials’ homophobic ments blamg gay people for the natn’s low birth rate, have exposed LGBT people to vlence and ma them more vulnerable, advot say.

ANTI-GAY VIRAL VIO STIRS OUTRAGE AHEAD OF RSIAN REFERENDUM

” That has been terpreted to clu any public exprsn of Rsian Print Vladimir Put signed the bill to law, he has also said gay people were wele Sochi and would be “fortable” there but asked them “to leave children peace. Of those who were attacked, only 6 percent ntacted the a month before the adoptn of the anti-gay propaganda law, there were at least three murrs allegedly motivated by homophobia, acrdg to Human Rights Latnik, a Rsian LGBT advote, says he was beaten bee of his sexualy and activism.

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

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9Genremelodrama, drama, tectiveCountryFrance, Rsia, UkraeDuratn01:27CharactersGayPlotInvtigatnPlaceRsiaStyleHeavy, Mak me thk, Deprsive, SerAfter takg a wrong turn their r, a young gay Rsian uple wns what they believe is a vic gay bashg; their quandary over what to do about propels them to ever more dangero terrory. 7Genremelodrama, drama, wternCountryUSA, CanadaDuratn02:14CharactersGay, CowboysPlotLove, Adventure, Passn, Relatnship, WeddgStyleSoulful, Atmospheric, Fascatg, Touchg, Sad onTwo morn-day wboys meet on a shepherdg job the summer of '63, the two share a raw and powerful summer together that turns to a lifelong relatnship nflictg wh the liv they are supposed to live.

GAY MAN RSIA BEATEN AND RAPED ON CAMERA HORRIFIC VIRAL VIO

5Genremelodrama, dramaCountryUSADuratn01:40CharactersGay, Teachers, Stunts, FriendsPlotObssn, Lonels, Death, DeprsnStylePsychologil problems, Soulful, Philosophil, Heavy, TouchgAdapted om a 1964 novel of the same name, the film follows a day the life of Gee Falner, a Brish llege profsor reelg wh the recent and sudn loss of his longtime partner.

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9Genremelodrama, dramaCountryItaly, France, USA, BrazilDuratn02:09CharactersGay, Scientists, Fathers, Pianists, MothersPlotLove, Relatnship, First love, Love wh age difference, SctnPlaceSea, Italy, Small ciTimeSummerStyleSoulful, Touchg ViosEl Perlman is spendg the summer wh his fay at their vatn home Lombardy, Italy.

GAY MAN IN RSIA APPARENTLY RAPED BY VIGILANT ON VIO

6Genreedy, melodrama, dramaCountryUSADuratn01:49CharactersTeens, Gay, ChildrensPlotLove, FriendshipPlacePrison, School, AiStyleExcg, Cute, Soulful, Fascatg, Touchg ViosEveryone serv a great love story. 9Genreedy, melodrama, dramaCountryUSACharactersTeens, Lbians, Gay, Micians, StuntsPlotLove, Love triangle, Relatnship, Lonels, First lovePlaceSchool, Small ciStyleRomantic, Light, For sgle girls, Womens ma rol, TouchgShy, straight-A stunt Ellie is hired by sweet but articulate jock Pl, who needs help woog the most popular girl school. 3Genreedy, melodrama, dramaCountryUSADuratn01:43CharactersGay, Girliends, FrogsPlotLove, Cancer, SctnPlaceSchool, USSRTimeGraduatn ViosAlex Telove is on a qut to lose his virgy, an event eagerly awaed by his patient girliend and cheered on wh wele advice by his rowdy iends.

5Genreedy, dramaCountryUSADuratn02:00CharactersHors, Gay, Teachers, Childrens, CooksPlotDancg, Money, Dg addict, Friendship, BreakupPlaceSchool, Party, DertsTimeNew YearStyleSoulful, Fascatg, Mak me thkA uple is gog through maral troubl ma worse when a prevly unknown grandson shows up. Markimdb: 8Genremelodrama, dramaCountryEstonia, Uned KgdomCharactersGay, MilaryPlotLovePlaceUSSRTimeCold WarAt the height of the Cold War, a troubled soldier forms a forbidn love triangle wh a darg fighter pilot and his female ra amid the dangero surroundgs of a Soviet Air Force Base. 2Genrethriller, adventureCountryUSADuratn02:05CharactersGay, CIA, Spy, Suts, JewsPlotWar, Chs, Baseball, MysteryPlaceItaly, USATimeWorld War IIStyleTo cry, By books, Fascatg, Tense, Disturbg ViosMajor league baseball player, Moe Berg, liv a double life workg for the Office of Strategic Servic.

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RSIA TO GAYS: SHUT UP AND DISAPPEAR

Nikolay Stolyarch, the head of Patrt Media Group, the parent pany of RIA FAN, acknowledged the ntroversy, but said the vio was le wh Rsian laws passed unr Put’s le that have outlawed so-lled “homosexual propaganda, ” measur that have drawn wispread ternatnal nmnatn.

This summer, the beatg of a transgenr woman was also ught on tape and wily spread throughout the are not the first tensely homophobic cints that Rsia has seen recent tim, but homophobic vlence has creased terribly sce new laws banng "homosexual propaganda" passed June.

LGBT groups say that this new legislatn has bolstered anti-gay activy, which clus "ambhg" spected homosexuals through social media trickery and then submtg them to rerd huiatn and if the acts are not chillg enough, seems as though the vios and clips are released to a vividly supportive dience, often appldg the attacks. If they are not taed durg protts, mt be bee they are simply too sred to do anythg about the lack of liberty and jtice Rsia that acpany stipulatns the "homosexual propaganda law" which now f 4, 000 to 5, 000 bl (120-150 USD) per dividual and 800, 000-1, 000, 000 bl (24, 000-30, 000 USD) per registered anizatn for even mentng gay a very ser social movement, emerg Rsia will ntue to rank wh other plorably anti-gay stat (i.

INSI THE IRON CLOSET: WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE GAY PUT'S RSIA

After years of unrelentg Rsian media attacks on the LGBT muny (not to mentn the ever-creasg rat of physil attacks for which the anti-gay mpaign provis ver), what uld be more hearteng than apparently ordary Rsians showg solidary wh a group of boys who so fortably habed a two-mute homoerotic performance? A number of media mentators, both pro- and anti-Satisfactn, pare the performance to somethg one might see at the Mosw “Blue Oyster” bar, a gay nightspot whose name is both a gay pun Rsian and apparently spired by a scene om the first Police Amy movie.

” Perhaps my rponse is not jt Amerin, but over-the-hill: when I was growg up, before the days of Gay-Straight Allianc and the like, the ia that a bunch of straight boys uld do a performance like this that was not explicly mockg gays was unthkable. Contrast this to the Rsian social media sndal of the beard Atrian cross-drser Concha Wurst’s victory the 2014 Eurovisn ntt, shortly after the oter of Ukraian Print Viktor Yanovich and the Rsian anexatn of Crimea and not long after Rsia’s adoptn of the gay propaganda law. As Rsia ntu to flounr Ukrae, wh attempts to pture the small town of Bakhmut turng to a grisly reenactment of the Battle of Verdun, and Kreml propagandists lurchg back and forth between hysteril swagger and the five stag of grief, the Rsian polil tablishment has cid to tackle what’s really important: a natnal “Don’t Say Gay” law.

A bill that outlaws “LGBT propaganda”—fed so broadly as to ver not only gay or transgenr rights advocy but potentially all public exprsns of “nontradnal” sexualy or genr inty—passed the State Duma on November 24 and was approved by the upper hoe of Rsia’s fake legislature, the Council of Feratns, last Wednday. ) But do rell Soviet-era censorship unr which any mentn of Tchaikovsky’s homosexualy was scbbed om books and films about the great poser’s life, while bgraphil prefac to Soviet edns of Osr Wil cloaked the reason for his imprisonment such phemisms as “transgrsns agast moraly. But there uld have been no qutn, for stance, of publishg Jam Baldw’s gay-themed masterpiece Gvanni’s Room, even though Baldw was acclaimed the official Soviet media as a fighter agast Amerin racism; the novel had to wa until 2007 for s first Rsian edn.

NEO-NAZI WHO TORTURED GAY PEOPLE VIRAL VIOS DI PRISON OF SUICI

This is not the first time Put-era Rsian legislatn has gone after “gay propaganda”: A more limed 2013 law add “propaganda of non-tradnal sexual relatns” to a broar law that banned the distributn of “harmful” material to mors. The Duma voted down an amendment that would have exempted “universally regnized cultural products” such as lerature and art om the ban; theory, this means, for example, that Rsian translatns of Vladimir Nabokov’s novel Pale Fire, whose prcipal narrator Charl Kbote is nspicuoly gay, uld fall unr the ax. Jt last month, the premiere of a play lled The Prcs and the Ogre at a children’s theater Novosibirsk was nceled—or at least layed, sce will apparently open this month after vettg by the Mistry of Culture—bee of an anonymo plat om someone who found too gay.

Many Rsian mentators, such as journalist and activist Renat Davletgilyev, believe the new law is a transparent attempt by the Put regime to shore up flaggg support among the Rsian public by appealg to homophobia, stg gays as the menacg “other, ” and monizg not only the Wt but Rsian antiwar liberals as “sexual viants.

A report by journalist Sasha Belaya on the Khodorkovsky Live YouTube channel noted that the Duma’s discsn and passage of the legislatn had been acpanied by an anti-gay mpaign the Rsian state media that explicly targeted liberals and dissints.