Controversy Epts Over Screeng of Gay Teen Documentary Rsia – The Hollywood Reporter

Contents:

• GAY RSIAN TEENS MUNITE SECRET TO AVOID LAW ON 'PROPAGANDA'
• 'WE'RE NOT HIDG': GAY AND LBIAN RSIANS SAY A CULTURAL SHIFT IS UNRWAY
• A RSIAN TEEN WAS REPORTEDLY ARRTED FOR "GAY PROPAGANDA"
• CONTROVERSY EPTS OVER SCREENG OF GAY TEEN DOCUMENTARY RSIA
• 1 5 RSIANS WANT GAYS AND LBIANS 'ELIMATED,' SURVEY FDS
• WHO CONTROLS A GAY RSIAN TEEN-AGER’S STORY?
• GAY MAN RSIA FORCED TO HIDG OVER YOUTUBE TERVIEW
• IN LGBT+ RIGHTS VICTORY, RSIAN TEEN WS 'GAY PROPAGANDA' SE
• MEET THE GAY RSIAN TEENAGER USG TWTER TO COMBAT HOMOPHOBIA

GAY RSIAN TEENS MUNITE SECRET TO AVOID LAW ON 'PROPAGANDA'

In December 2022, Rsia expand s existg “gay propaganda” law to exert ntrol over public discsns and narrativ surroundg non-heterosexual relatnships and inti. As a gay man a untry that ma anti-gay iology a foundatn of s anti-Ukrae propaganda, he feared for his life every day.

In his seven years as a gay activist, Maysky has never seen Rsian-speakg LGBTQ+ immigrants g to California such great numbers.

Petersburg who left Rsia after his parents threatened to sue his therapist who backed him receivg hormone therapy; and Ivan, 18, who is gay, half Rsian and half Ukraian, and “didn’t want to kill people.

'WE'RE NOT HIDG': GAY AND LBIAN RSIANS SAY A CULTURAL SHIFT IS UNRWAY

Thoands of members of the LGBTQ+ muny are fleeg Rsia’s anti-gay laws. “My parents are very nservative and they don’t believe gay people should exist, ” said Max, who didn’t disclose his last name for fear of retaliatn agast his parents who live St. Most of his iends are the closet or fled the untry — and many of them, he said, were vlently attacked by anti-gay groups before they left.

Thoands of members of the LGBTQ+ muny are fleeg Rsia due to anti-gay laws. A survey published 2020 by Mosw-based non-ernmental rearch anizatn the Levada Center, found that about 30% of Rsians wanted to isolate gay people om society. One of the rearchers, Ekatera Kochega, told NBC News that many Rsians “would not want to see gay people existg.

A RSIAN TEEN WAS REPORTEDLY ARRTED FOR "GAY PROPAGANDA"

Although is not illegal to be an LGBTQ+ person Rsia, a ago the Kreml passed a so-lled “gay propaganda law” banng the distributn of rmatn about gay relatnships among mors. Maksim and Dmrii say they n’t wa to marry and start a fay, somethg that they, as gay men, wouldn’t be able to experience back home.

”The ban marks the latt phase a rollback of rights for gay and transgenr people Rsia.

Lol NewsMIAMI – The diplomatic ti between the Uned Stat and Jamai uld soon be jeopardy.There are reports that Jamai is refg to accred the spoe of a gay Amerin diplomat.“Our culture is not really acceptg of ,” said Renae Stevens, who was visg the Jamain nsulate Miami Wednday.Attorney Wayne Goldg is an advisor to Jamai’s ernment.“The whole ia of legislatn to legalize same-sex marriag, I thk they still have a long way to go,” he said. Only one person knew that Svetlana was gay when she wrote to Deti-404, a Rsian support group for lbian teenagers. In her letter, the 16-year-old scribed a life of hidg her sexualy a small town central Rsia where a man had been killed for beg a homosexual.

CONTROVERSY EPTS OVER SCREENG OF GAY TEEN DOCUMENTARY RSIA

Or at least be tolerant of me', " she, which tak s name om the error page that appears when a webse do not exist, was set up by Lena Klimova, 25, after she wrote an article about the plight of LGBT (lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr) teenagers.

1 5 RSIANS WANT GAYS AND LBIANS 'ELIMATED,' SURVEY FDS

"The small support group is one of the few for young gay people Rsia. It would also seem to be exactly the thg that the ntroversial anti-gay law passed by the Rsian parliament wish to crack down on.

WHO CONTROLS A GAY RSIAN TEEN-AGER’S STORY?

The law, siar to the sectn 28 law that was passed by Margaret Thatcher's ernment 1988, bans the dissematn of "propaganda of non-tradnal sexual orientatn" towards unr-18s and impos f on anyone legislatn has ed an outcry the wt, leadg Stephen Fry to pared the suatn of gays and lbians Rsia to that of Jews Nazi Germany. Teenagers smaller towns – where there are few, if any, openly out people and no gay scene – have the harst.

"Our school is nsired progrsive, but is que normal for teachers to say that homosexuals will burn hell, " wrote one 16-year-old om a small town "which isn't even on the map".

GAY MAN RSIA FORCED TO HIDG OVER YOUTUBE TERVIEW

"She lls homosexuals – and that means me too – mutants. Homosexualy was only legalised Rsia 1993.

A man Volgograd was murred after revealg to iends that he was gay.

IN LGBT+ RIGHTS VICTORY, RSIAN TEEN WS 'GAY PROPAGANDA' SE

The route kidnappg and btal torture of gay men and women the republic has been heavily documented by rights groups and journalists, sce a so-lled "gay purge" 2017 ma global headl, when dozens of men were round up and tortured at police bas.

Brish gay rights activist Peter Tatchell stag an anti-Put prott agast the mistreatment of LGBT people Rsia ont of a monument to Soviet Marshal Gey Zhov on Manezhnaya Square Mosw on June 14, Zmeyev/AFP via Getty Imag, FILEAn ABC News Nightle documentary 2019 documented the s of several gay men who were taken by police and tortured, beaten wh rods and electrocuted. Chechen thori have dismissed the allegatns by tellg media repeatedly that homosexualy don't exist Chechnya or that people who are gay n't be Chechen.

MEET THE GAY RSIAN TEENAGER USG TWTER TO COMBAT HOMOPHOBIA

"Last December, Rsian Print Vladimir Put signed a law expandg rtrictns on the promotn of "LGBT propaganda", effectively banng gay, lbian and genr-diverse people om any public exprsn of their liftyle.