Viktor Pylypenko has bee a role mol for dozens of LGBT+ Ukraian war veterans and their supporters sce he anised their participatn two years ago Kyiv's largt ever gay pri march.
Contents:
- THE FILM PUT DON’T WANT THE WORLD TO SEE: FIREBIRD, A GAY LOVE STORY ABOUT FIGHTER PILOTS
- 'GAY TATTOO' CHECK FOR RSIAN ARY RECS KREML'S LATT CLAMPDOWN ON HOMOSEXUALY
- RSIAN SOLDIERS ACCED OF TARGETED ANTI-GAY ATTACKS UKRAE
- ‘FIREBIRD’ REVIEW: STEAMY GAY COLD WAR DRAMA RELLS RSIA’S PAST ATROCI
- GAY WAR VETERAN SPEAKS OUT FOR EQUAL RIGHTS UKRAE'S ARY
- RSIA HAS A WEIRD PLAN TO STOP GAYS FROM JOG MILARY
THE FILM PUT DON’T WANT THE WORLD TO SEE: FIREBIRD, A GAY LOVE STORY ABOUT FIGHTER PILOTS
Legislatn beg phed by the Kreml and the Rsian Orthodox Church would clu a ban on holdg public events (such as the one pictured) that promote gay rights. * russian military gay *
“Beg gay was a crimal offence. ” Rebane knew he was gay at the age of ne. ”Remarkably for a film wh such overtly gay ntent, several exterr scen were filmed Mosw.
“After that, ” adds Prr, “there was a plat about beg ‘homosexual propaganda’.
The European Court of Human Rights led 2017 that the 2013 law is discrimatory, promot homophobia and vlat the European Conventn on Human Rights.
'GAY TATTOO' CHECK FOR RSIAN ARY RECS KREML'S LATT CLAMPDOWN ON HOMOSEXUALY
Guil are beg issued to the Rsian army to check soldiers for timate tattoos, but a ary source ni gay men are beg targeted. * russian military gay *
The urt found that the law “served no legimate public tert, ” rejectg suggtns that public bate on LGBT issu uld fluence children to bee homosexual, or that threatened public morals. Homosexualy was crimalized Rsia 1993, but homophobia and discrimatn is still rife. 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.
As an unspectg dience looked on, the men hoisted a shirtls lleague above their heads, placed a ncrete block on his stomach that suggted gay people should be killed, and proceed to smash the symbolic object wh what appeared to be a sledgehammer. Not the head of the paratrooper club, who, judgg by his remarks afterward, saw nothg wrong wh the homophobic display. They jt don't like" gay people, Andrei Palachev later was quoted as tellg reporters, g an offensive slur for gays.
Homophobia, Intolerance On The Rise?
RSIAN SOLDIERS ACCED OF TARGETED ANTI-GAY ATTACKS UKRAE
The performance Yaroslavl is jt the latt example of risg homophobia and tolerance toward mory groups Rsia, a trend that appears to be worseng part bee of seemg official difference to such displays. Homosexualy was crimalized Rsia the 1990s, but LGBT people have faced varyg gre of discrimatn over the years.
Rights fenrs say bias has been enuraged by a law targetg "gay propaganda, " which Print Vladimir Put signed 2013. Sce then, LGBT-rights mpaigners and hate-crime rearchers have reported a notable uptick vlence and harassment agast gays and lbians, often om nservative activists or those pog Orthodox Christian beliefs. But the cha later pulled the ad after beg attacked by nservative activists, some of whom ced the "gay propaganda" law.
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‘FIREBIRD’ REVIEW: STEAMY GAY COLD WAR DRAMA RELLS RSIA’S PAST ATROCI
Back 2019, a list circulated on Rsian webs and social media featurg dozens of nam: gays, lbians, activists, and supporters of LGBT , even journalists. In the North Cs, the Rsian LGBT Network -- Rsia's largt gay and lbian support group -- said on Augt 25 that a Daghtani native had been abducted earlier this year Mosw and forcibly brought to Chechnya, where thori prsed him for rmatn on gay people the regn.
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 untry as a whole has a reputatn of profound homophobia.
GAY WAR VETERAN SPEAKS OUT FOR EQUAL RIGHTS UKRAE'S ARY
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.
RSIA HAS A WEIRD PLAN TO STOP GAYS FROM JOG MILARY
'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. ’ 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.