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Contents:

• EUROPEAN RIGHTS COURT RUL AGAST RSIAN GAY 'PROPAGANDA' LAW
• EASTERN EUROPE WAS ONCE A WORLD LEAR ON GAY RIGHTS. THEN RAN OUT OF SPEGOATS
• EUROPE’S EPENG DIVI ON GAY RIGHTS
• LEGIMACY OF ‘CTOMER’ SUPREME COURT GAY RIGHTS SE RAIS ETHIL AND LEGAL FLAGS
• WHERE PEOPLE ARE AGAST GAY RIGHTS IN THE EU
• GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
• GAY RIGHTS AND LGBTQI MOVEMENTS EUROPE

EUROPEAN RIGHTS COURT RUL AGAST RSIAN GAY 'PROPAGANDA' LAW

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has led that Rsia’s law banng the dissematn of gay "propaganda" to mors vlat the right to eedom of exprsn, is discrimatory agast gay people, and enurag homophobia.

The Strasbourg-based urt said on June 20 that f imposed on three gay-rights activists vlated two articl on eedom of exprsn and prohibn of discrimatn of the European Conventn on Human Rights. The judg also said that by adoptg the law, the Rsian thori "rerced stigma and prejudice and enuraged homophobia, " which they said is "patible wh the notns of equaly, pluralism, and tolerance herent a mocratic society.

EASTERN EUROPE WAS ONCE A WORLD LEAR ON GAY RIGHTS. THEN RAN OUT OF SPEGOATS

"The way this law has been applied shows that is not aimed at protectg mors, but at removg LGBT people, an enormo social group, om the public space, and at strippg them of their right to speak out or fight for their rights, " said Alekseyev, founr of the Mosw-based gay-rights group. Denis Krivosheyev, puty director for Europe and Central Asia at Amnty Internatnal, also weled the lg and urged Rsia to "repeal s homophobic legislatn, end discrimatory practic, and fully rpect every person's right to eedom of exprsn. Krivosheyev said a statement that the Rsian thori should also "effectively vtigate all stanc of homophobic vlence, " cludg the reports of a "terrifyg mpaign of mass abductn and torture of men perceived to be gay Chechnya.

EUROPE’S EPENG DIVI ON GAY RIGHTS

After an ial report the Rsian newspaper Novaya Gazeta on April 1 that said gay men Chechnya were beg round up, tortured, and killed, several outlets cludg RFE/RL have spoken to Chechens who have fled the alleged abe. In a report on May 26, Human Rights Watch said had nfirmed that police Rsia's southern regn tortured and huiated dozens of gay or bisexual men durg the sprg of 2017 "an apparent effort to purge them om Chechen society.

Hungary’s hardle natnalist ernment passed a new law earlier this month banng ntent that “promot” homosexualy and genr change om beg shared wh children, effectively prohibg any discsn of LGBTQ them schools. In dog so, Orbán has followed the playbook of Poland’s ernment, which has been chippg away at the rights of the LGBTQ muny for a number of years, adoptg discrimatory rhetoric and stokg homophobia. “There’s a real regrsn happeng many different untri, and rights that had been regnized are now beg challenged, ” said Evelyne Paradis, the executive director of the European branch of the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn (ILGA-Europe).

LEGIMACY OF ‘CTOMER’ SUPREME COURT GAY RIGHTS SE RAIS ETHIL AND LEGAL FLAGS

“It’s not about homosexuals, ’s about the kids and the parents, ” he told reporters, addg that he was a “eedom fighter” durg Hungary’s munist era.

“You have plac like Germany, France, Spa where 85% or more say that homosexualy should be accepted by society and then once you’re past the dividg le, on the other si of the former Iron Curta, those numbers beg to fall pretty rapidly and then get even lower as you go to Rsia, ” he said. “When you look at the former Eastern bloc, the untri had a long tradn of really progrsive legislatn towards LGBTQ rights, Poland for stance crimalized homosexualy 1932, which is really, really early, ” Kościańska said.

SummaryPolls suggt right-wg parti will w Spa electnConservativ may form aln wh far-rightLGBTQ+ activists fear a roll back of their rightsMADRID, July 17 (Thomson Rters Foundatn) - The rights of gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr people have taken centre stage ahead of Spa's July 23 natnal electn. In December 2022, Rsia expand s existg “gay propaganda” law to exert ntrol over public discsns and narrativ surroundg non-heterosexual relatnships and inti.

WHERE PEOPLE ARE AGAST GAY RIGHTS IN THE EU

As of 2022, six untri' legal s specifilly prcribe the ath penalty for the "crime" of homosexualy and another five untri allow for the possibily of the ath penalty.

LGBT and LGBTQ+ have several addnal variatns, cludg LGBTQ, LGBTQIA, LGBTQIA+, and 2SLGBTQIA+ (Two-spir, lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, qutng, tersex, and asexual, wh the + reprentg pansexual, agenr, genr queer, bigenr, genr variant, and pangenr).

GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT

Two of the most notable advancements LGBTQI+ rights the US recent s are the legalizatn of gay marriage and the legalizatn of adoptn of children by same-sex upl. Gay marriage legalizatn expand om one state 2004 to all fifty stat 2015 through feral urt lgs, state urt lgs, state legislatn, and direct popular vot. Acrdg to the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn's annual report State-Sponsored Homophobia, same-sex nduct was crimalized 67 of the Uned Natns' 193 member stat 2020 and was facto illegal two more.

GAY RIGHTS AND LGBTQI MOVEMENTS EUROPE

In other untri, homosexualy is technilly legal, but promotn of "nontradnal sexual relatns", whether by anizatns or dividuals, is illegal. Moreover, another five untri have laws which are ls specific the outlawg and sentencg of homosexualy, but which leave the ath penalty available.