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• ‘I’M AAID FOR MY FUTURE’: PROPOSED LAWS THREATEN GAY LIFE RSIA
• RSIA'S KASATKA ANNOUNC SHE IS GAY
• GAY TIKTOK UPLE ARRTED RSIA
• WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT RSIA’S SO-CALLED ‘GAY PROPAGANDA’ BILL
• 'WE'RE NOT HIDG': GAY AND LBIAN RSIANS SAY A CULTURAL SHIFT IS UNRWAY
• WHY RSIA IS SO ANTI-GAY
• ‘OUR MERE EXISTENCE IS ILLEGAL.’ AS MOSW TOUGHENS ANTI-GAY LAW, LGBTQ RSIANS FEAR FOR THE FUTURE
• RSIA’S GAYRUCKA RUCKA ALITRACK 6 ON PROBABLY RACIST PRODUCED BYRUCKA RUCKA ALIA PARODY OF JASON DELO’S “WHATCHA SAY?”, THE SONG WAS SPIRED BY THE CREASG TENSNS BETWEEN RSIA AND THE UNED STAT, STARTG 2008 WH RSIA’S VASN OF… READ MORE JUL. 26, 20111 VIEWER8.8K VIEWS15 CONTRIBUTORSRSIA’S GAY LYRICS[CHOS]RSIA'S GAYIN EVERYONE HAS AIDSAND THEY ALL GOT OM BUTTSEXTHEIR PRINT FGERBANGS THEM LTLE KIDS[VERSE 1]I (I) WA SO LONG (LONG) THE SNOW (SNOW) FOR ONE LTLE PIECE OF BREAD (OF BREAD)AND I (I) HAVE BEEN DNK (DNK) SCE I WAS BORN (BORN) AND I KEEP MONGOLIANS A GEI'M POOR, I SOLD MY CHILD FOR A SIP OF VODKAMY WIFE IS NAMED SVETLANA BORSHTYNSKOVSKISKAAT MY SPACE STATN (SPACE STATN) WE TRY TO SEND (WE TRIED TO SEND) A RDBOARD BOX UP TO THE SKYWHEN THE WALL ME DOWN AND THEM RSIANS SHED OUT WAS A DAY WHEN EEDOM WONIF MR. PUT WANTS TO VA GEIA, WE'LL BE WA' HERE WH GUNSI LIVE ATLANTA[CHOS]RSIA'S GAYTHEY SUCK A LOT OF LONG DICKSON THE INTER, RSIA'S GAYTHEY LIKE TO TOUCH ON YOUNG BOYS A LTLE BRSIA'S GAYIN EVERYONE HAS AIDSAND THEY ALL GOT OM BUTTSEXRSIA IS GAYYOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE[VERSE 2]I (I) EAT SOUR DOUGH, (DOUGH) NO GOOD, (GOOD) I HAVE NEVER SEEN A REAL BLACK MAN (BLACK MAN)AND I (I) HAVE TEN KIDS (KIDS) I N'T FEED, (FEED) I HOPE WE FIGHT A NUCLEAR WARDA, I HOPE I EAT A PIECE OF FISH FOR DNERWE HAVE A WALL TO KEEP MY PEOPLE HERETHE KGB (THE KGB) ARRT' ME (ARRT' ME) 'E THEY TCH ME TOUCH' MYSELFTELL THE TROOPS RIGHT NOW 'S TIME TO BOMB MOSW, FUN TIME AND GAM ARE DONEWE SHOULD KILL THEM RKIS AND TAKE THEIR LAND 'E 'S FAR OM MEXITHIS ONE'S FOR 9/11[CHOS]RSIA'S GAYIT LOOKS LIKE CANDYLANDAND THE PALACE IS PLASTICTHEY WEAR THOSE DUMB FUCKED UP HATS WH FUR ON RSIA'S GAYIN EVERYONE HAS AIDSAND THEY ALL GOT OM BUTTSEXRSIA IS GAY[VERSE 3]HEY, LET ME TELL YOU RIGHT NOW, THEM RSIANS A'T GONNA TAKE VIETNAMNOT WHOUT ME CHARGEI GOT A MAIL ORR BRI, ME HERE A BOX OM PETERSBURGSHE LEFT HER FUCK' KID TO STARVEHEY, MR. OBAMA, GET YOUR CLUB AND GO HAVE A WORD WH MEDVEVGET HIM GOOD THE CHTAND TELL MR. CHG CHANG CHONG IF HE WANTS TO GET VOLVEDALL YOUR MISSIL WON'T ADD CH TO YOUR PENISWHEN THE WALL ME DOWN AND THEM RSIANS SHED OUT WAS A DAY WHEN EEDOM WONBUT THEN WHEN DAVID HASSELHOFF STARTED SG' ON RS THEY WERE PUTTG THE WALL BACK UP'CSE BABY RSIA'S FUCK' GAY[CHOS]RSIA'S GAYIN EVERYONE HAS AIDSAND THEY ALL GOT OM BUTTSEXRSIA IS GAYRSIA'S GAYIN EVERYONE HAS AIDSAND THEY ALL GOT OM BUTTSEXRSIA IS GAY1EMBEDCANCELHOW TO FORMAT LYRICS:TYPE OUT ALL LYRICS, EVEN REPEATG SONG PARTS LIKE THE CHOSLYRICS SHOULD BE BROKEN DOWN TO DIVIDUAL LUSE SECTN HEARS ABOVE DIFFERENT SONG PARTS LIKE [VERSE], [CHOS], ETC.USE ALICS (<I>LYRIC</I>) AND BOLD (<B>LYRIC</B>) TO DISTGUISH BETWEEN DIFFERENT VOLISTS THE SAME SONG PARTIF YOU DON’T UNRSTAND A LYRIC, E [?]TO LEARN MORE, CHECK OUT OUR TRANSCRIPTN GUI OR VIS OUR TRANSCRIBERS FOMABOUT
• INSI THE IRON CLOSET: WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE GAY PUT'S RSIA

‘I’M AAID FOR MY FUTURE’: PROPOSED LAWS THREATEN GAY LIFE RSIA

The European Court of Human Rights led 2017 that the 2013 law is discrimatory, promot homophobia and vlat the European Conventn on Human Rights. 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. 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.

RSIA'S KASATKA ANNOUNC SHE IS GAY

”The anizers had good reason to be wary: Life has been challengg for gay Rsians sce the law passed, as the ernment has treated gay life as a Wtern import that is harmful to tradnal Rsian valu and Rsia’s Parliament is set to pass a legislative package that would ban all “gay propaganda, ” signalg an even more difficult perd ahead for a stigmatized segment of laws would prohib reprentatn of L. Exprsn wh s ratnale for the war Ukrae, sistg that Rsia is fightg not jt Ukrae but all of NATO, a Wtern alliance that reprents a threat to the Put drove home that argument a speech last week, sayg that the Wt n have “dozens of genrs and gay pri paras, ” but that should not try to spread the “trends” elsewhere. Olenichev said that though the police do not track hate crim agast queer people, he and his lleagu have noticed an crease clients who have suffered inty-based attacks sce rhetoric behd anti-gay laws may have dangero nsequenc for gay Rsians, said Vladimir Komov, a lawyer wh the group Delo 2013 law was promoted as protectg children, while the new on “seek to prohib gay propaganda as a danger to the state system, ” fg as extremism, he Lunchenkov said the proposed laws uld leave gay people “aaid to go to medil clics to get treatment or ttg” for sexually transmted diseas.

GAY TIKTOK UPLE ARRTED RSIA

Lawmakers llg gays a danger on a par wh war “is more funny than sry, ” he now, gay Rsians and their alli have found exprsn spe rtrictive laws.

A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 7 of the New York edn wh the headle: Life for Gay Rsians Is About to Get Worse. And particularly where that base of support is close to relig views, there is a lot of crossover there that works for polil opportunists who are g official forms of homophobia to fe their polil That is Dan Healey, profsor of Rsian history at the Universy of Oxford. In December 2022, Rsia expand s existg “gay propaganda” law to exert ntrol over public discsns and narrativ surroundg non-heterosexual relatnships and inti.

WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT RSIA’S SO-CALLED ‘GAY PROPAGANDA’ BILL

But the fear generated by the legislatn is already leadg to censorship: onle cemas have leted LGBT-themed films and TV seri and eded out gay scen.

In one episo of the highly-acclaimed HBO seri The Whe Lot, a Rsian streamg service changed the word "gay" to "man", eded a towel onto one male character's bare backsi and leted a gay sex scene, jt days after the law was ptn, The book Shattered, about the romance between two men, has been heavily redacted RsiaBooks, too, are beg censored. The text has been redacted by the publisher, wh whole sectns replaced wh black of the -thors of the law, an openly homophobic natnalist lled Valy Milonov, agre to speak to me via violk. Rsia's World Cup volunteers have warned they will hunt down gay England fans and report them to police if they see them kissg publicPublished: 9:00, 28 Jun 2018Updated: 9:02, 28 Jun 2018RUSSIA'S World Cup volunteers have warned they will hunt down gay England fans and report them to police if they see them kissg public.

LGBT rights groups say homophobic attacks have rocketed sce print Vladimir Put approved the ntroversial law outlawg the promotn of a gay liftyle to mors 2013. Although sexual activy between gay people was crimalised 1993, homosexual upl are not eligible for the legal protectns offered to heterosexuals Rsia. Dpe beg slammed for the recent crease social discrimatn, crim and vlence agast homosexuals, big ci such as Mosw and Sat Petersburg are said to have thrivg LGBT muni.

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

In a report issued April 2012, a panel of five expert advisers to the Uned Natns Human rights Council nmned the wave of torture and killgs of gay men Chechnya. Stotsko said he had exploed a loophole the gay marriage law, cg another law that means Rsia regnis marriag registered abroad. In January 2016, state Duma rejected a proposal by the munist Party to punish people who publicly show their homosexualy wh f and arrts.

[1/2]Tennis - French Open - Roland Garros, Paris, France - June 2, 2022 Rsia's Daria Kasatka actn durg her semi fal match agast Poland's Iga Swiatek REUTERS/Beno TsierJuly 18 (Rters) - (Edor's note: ntas language that some rears may fd offensive paragraph 3)Rsian tennis player Daria Kasatka announced on Monday that she is gay and found "livg the closet" 25-year-old, a semi-falist at last month's French Open, said she was spired to e out after Rsian soccer striker Nadya Karpova revealed she was gay a untry where homosexualy is owned upon.

The young woman who only intified herself to Dimrov by the name Elena said that sce the latt passage of laws cludg expansn of the Rsia’s “gay propaganda” law to clu adults last December, upled wh the crackdown by the Rsian Feral Service for Supervisn of Communitns, Informatn Technology and Mass Media, abbreviated as Roskomnadzor, on any webs and on popular phone apps that ter to LGBTQ people, she has now begun efforts earnt to leave the untry. The ntroversial law was met wh cricism and ridicule Wtern untri, cludg a lg the European Court of Human Rights 2017 that stated Rsia’s “gay propaganda law” is discrimatory, promot homophobia and vlat the European Conventn on Human Rights. On Monday, Rsian Print Vladimir Put signed to effect the “gay propaganda” bill, which Rsian lawmakers unanimoly approved November.

WHY RSIA IS SO ANTI-GAY

The new “gay propaganda” bill expands on existg legislatn that was adopted by the Kreml 2013 to promote “tradnal” fay valu Rsia.

” Some lawmakers have also shown support for an pennt bill that would make any so-lled “gay propaganda” a crimal offense, acrdg to the Associated Prs. Petersburg and Mosw have been marked by state vlence and arrts, while an crease the number of attacks on LGBTQ people throughout Rsia—both by dividuals and by anized homophobic groups—creased after the 2013 law, acrdg to a 2014 report published by Human Rights Watch.

‘OUR MERE EXISTENCE IS ILLEGAL.’ AS MOSW TOUGHENS ANTI-GAY LAW, LGBTQ RSIANS FEAR FOR THE FUTURE

Read More: Rsia’s Anti-Gay Laws: How a Dutch Activist Got Cght the Crosshairs How are human rights advot rpondg to this law? In 2017, the European Court of Human Rights led that Rsia’s “gay propaganda law” was discrimatory, promoted homophobia, and vlated the European Conventn on Human Rights and that “served no legimate public tert. ” The urt rejected suggtns that public bate on LGBTQ issu uld fluence children to bee homosexual or that threatened public morals.

RSIA’S GAYRUCKA RUCKA ALITRACK 6 ON PROBABLY RACIST PRODUCED BYRUCKA RUCKA ALIA PARODY OF JASON DELO’S “WHATCHA SAY?”, THE SONG WAS SPIRED BY THE CREASG TENSNS BETWEEN RSIA AND THE UNED STAT, STARTG 2008 WH RSIA’S VASN OF… READ MORE JUL. 26, 20111 VIEWER8.8K VIEWS15 CONTRIBUTORSRSIA’S GAY LYRICS[CHOS]RSIA'S GAYIN EVERYONE HAS AIDSAND THEY ALL GOT OM BUTTSEXTHEIR PRINT FGERBANGS THEM LTLE KIDS[VERSE 1]I (I) WA SO LONG (LONG) THE SNOW (SNOW) FOR ONE LTLE PIECE OF BREAD (OF BREAD)AND I (I) HAVE BEEN DNK (DNK) SCE I WAS BORN (BORN) AND I KEEP MONGOLIANS A GEI'M POOR, I SOLD MY CHILD FOR A SIP OF VODKAMY WIFE IS NAMED SVETLANA BORSHTYNSKOVSKISKAAT MY SPACE STATN (SPACE STATN) WE TRY TO SEND (WE TRIED TO SEND) A RDBOARD BOX UP TO THE SKYWHEN THE WALL ME DOWN AND THEM RSIANS SHED OUT WAS A DAY WHEN EEDOM WONIF MR. PUT WANTS TO VA GEIA, WE'LL BE WA' HERE WH GUNSI LIVE ATLANTA[CHOS]RSIA'S GAYTHEY SUCK A LOT OF LONG DICKSON THE INTER, RSIA'S GAYTHEY LIKE TO TOUCH ON YOUNG BOYS A LTLE BRSIA'S GAYIN EVERYONE HAS AIDSAND THEY ALL GOT OM BUTTSEXRSIA IS GAYYOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE[VERSE 2]I (I) EAT SOUR DOUGH, (DOUGH) NO GOOD, (GOOD) I HAVE NEVER SEEN A REAL BLACK MAN (BLACK MAN)AND I (I) HAVE TEN KIDS (KIDS) I N'T FEED, (FEED) I HOPE WE FIGHT A NUCLEAR WARDA, I HOPE I EAT A PIECE OF FISH FOR DNERWE HAVE A WALL TO KEEP MY PEOPLE HERETHE KGB (THE KGB) ARRT' ME (ARRT' ME) 'E THEY TCH ME TOUCH' MYSELFTELL THE TROOPS RIGHT NOW 'S TIME TO BOMB MOSW, FUN TIME AND GAM ARE DONEWE SHOULD KILL THEM RKIS AND TAKE THEIR LAND 'E 'S FAR OM MEXITHIS ONE'S FOR 9/11[CHOS]RSIA'S GAYIT LOOKS LIKE CANDYLANDAND THE PALACE IS PLASTICTHEY WEAR THOSE DUMB FUCKED UP HATS WH FUR ON RSIA'S GAYIN EVERYONE HAS AIDSAND THEY ALL GOT OM BUTTSEXRSIA IS GAY[VERSE 3]HEY, LET ME TELL YOU RIGHT NOW, THEM RSIANS A'T GONNA TAKE VIETNAMNOT WHOUT ME CHARGEI GOT A MAIL ORR BRI, ME HERE A BOX OM PETERSBURGSHE LEFT HER FUCK' KID TO STARVEHEY, MR. OBAMA, GET YOUR CLUB AND GO HAVE A WORD WH MEDVEVGET HIM GOOD THE CHTAND TELL MR. CHG CHANG CHONG IF HE WANTS TO GET VOLVEDALL YOUR MISSIL WON'T ADD CH TO YOUR PENISWHEN THE WALL ME DOWN AND THEM RSIANS SHED OUT WAS A DAY WHEN EEDOM WONBUT THEN WHEN DAVID HASSELHOFF STARTED SG' ON RS THEY WERE PUTTG THE WALL BACK UP'CSE BABY RSIA'S FUCK' GAY[CHOS]RSIA'S GAYIN EVERYONE HAS AIDSAND THEY ALL GOT OM BUTTSEXRSIA IS GAYRSIA'S GAYIN EVERYONE HAS AIDSAND THEY ALL GOT OM BUTTSEXRSIA IS GAY1EMBEDCANCELHOW TO FORMAT LYRICS:TYPE OUT ALL LYRICS, EVEN REPEATG SONG PARTS LIKE THE CHOSLYRICS SHOULD BE BROKEN DOWN TO DIVIDUAL LUSE SECTN HEARS ABOVE DIFFERENT SONG PARTS LIKE [VERSE], [CHOS], ETC.USE ALICS (<I>LYRIC</I>) AND BOLD (<B>LYRIC</B>) TO DISTGUISH BETWEEN DIFFERENT VOLISTS THE SAME SONG PARTIF YOU DON’T UNRSTAND A LYRIC, E [?]TO LEARN MORE, CHECK OUT OUR TRANSCRIPTN GUI OR VIS OUR TRANSCRIBERS FOMABOUT

“This legislatn is the latt a strg of asslts on the rights of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr people, this time unr the bric of state-ced transphobia.

“First Rsia tried to erase lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr inti om public view, and now they are targetg transgenr people themselv, ” Reid said. “Rsia should reverse s outrageo policy and ensure rights to inty, fay life, and medil re for lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr people – startg wh reversg the anti-trans law. “As a child, when I realised that I was gay, I also realised that I was the lonelit person on pla Earth, bee the only gay person I knew was me.

Now livg Mosw, Bledniy, or Pale English, which is the name he blogs unr, is more fortable wh his inty and feels lucky to have so far ped any homophobic asslts. While earlier maniftatns barred “gay propaganda” that allegedly targets children, the new measur would forbid such “promotn” regardls of the dience’s age.

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

Rsia’s origal law banng “gay propaganda” targetg children was passed 2013, markg the Kreml’s swg towards what lls “tradnal valu. In 2017, acrdg to rights groups, a “purge” took place the southern republic of Chechnya, which hundreds of gay men were round up and tortured at secret facili.