Contents:
- GENEVA GAY (WHAM) SCHAAF
- A GAY RSIAN, EXILED IRELAND
- GAY MARRIED UPLE FLEE RSIA AFTER RECEIVG ATH THREATS
GENEVA GAY (WHAM) SCHAAF
Geneva Gay (Kle) Schaaf, 93, went to her Heavenly Home wh her fay by her si at 8:15 a.
The realy is that far om gettg “addnal” rights, lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) people Rsia still stggle to enjoy the same fundamental protectn as everyone else.
A stark example of this me three days after Tolstoi’s remarks, when a Mosw jury acquted someone who killed a gay man.
A GAY RSIAN, EXILED IRELAND
On June 29, 47-year-old Roman Edalov and his partner Evgeny Efimov were wag for a b the cy center, when a dnk man attacked them, screamg homophobic obsceni and punchg them, before he fled.
Movement Rsia, passg laws that prohibed gay “propaganda. ” Kondakov is a scholar of the movement, and Shtorn has studied the soclogy of hate crim agast gay men.
And, of urse, no Rsian thks they’ve ever met a gay person person—so that mak really easy to create that image of ‘the villao queer people. Two gay men whose marriage was registered by Rsian officials have fled the untry after receivg ath threats and havg the electricy and ter reportedly cut off by placloth police who bieged their apartment Mosw.
GAY MARRIED UPLE FLEE RSIA AFTER RECEIVG ATH THREATS
Although homosexualy is not illegal Rsia, gay marriage is. Valy Milonov, a Rsian MP and the thor of Rsia’s law banng so-lled gay propaganda, said the marriage stamps had no legal validy and likened the uple to “stkg goats” rights groups said homophobic attacks had rocketed Rsia sce Print Vladimir Put approved the ntroversial law outlawg the promotn of a homosexual liftyle to mors 2013.
Dozens of gay men were reportedly taed and tortured Chechnya, a maly Mlim republic southern Rsia, last terr mistry announced that the men’s passports would be annulled and that the clerk who stamped them would be dismissed.