Apart om activists prottg Mosw and Sat Petersburg, most gay Rsians have attempted to mask their inty, makg difficult for Wterners to know what ’s really like to be gay Rsia. But one gay Rsian teenager is changg this...
Contents:
- RSIAN NSTUTN CHANGE ENDS HOP FOR GAY MARRIAGE
- 'WE'RE NOT HIDG': GAY AND LBIAN RSIANS SAY A CULTURAL SHIFT IS UNRWAY
- AN INTERVIEW WH A GAY, RSIAN NEO-NAZI
- MOST RSIANS SAY GAY SEX IS 'REPREHENSIBLE' AFTER 20-YEAR SPIKE HOMOPHOBIA, POLL SHOWS
- MEET THE GAY RSIAN TEENAGER USG TWTER TO COMBAT HOMOPHOBIA
- PUT’S PRI? SIX FAMO GAY SONS OF RSIA
- RSIA TO GAYS: SHUT UP AND DISAPPEAR
RSIAN NSTUTN CHANGE ENDS HOP FOR GAY MARRIAGE
While some untri have ma mov to expand LGBT rights and legalize gay marriage, most Rsians still fd the ia of gay sex "reprehensible." * russian gay 71 *
Although Rsia crimalized homosexualy s ago, animosy agast gays remas high. In 2012, the Mosw cy ernment orred that gay pri paras be banned for the next 100 years.
'WE'RE NOT HIDG': GAY AND LBIAN RSIANS SAY A CULTURAL SHIFT IS UNRWAY
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Attacks on the gay muny persist. Dozens of other activists received ath threats om an obscure anti-gay group that claimed rponsibily for the killg of Grigoryeva, who was stabbed repeatedly and showed signs of 2017, reports of extrajudicial arrts, torture and killgs of gay men the republic of Chechnya drew ternatnal year, Andrei Vaganov and Yevgeny Yerofeyev, a uple raisg two adopted children, had to flee Rsia after a doctor reported them to police and thori opened a crimal se. Adoptn by same-sex upl is banned Rsia, but Vaganov had applied as a sgle Olenichev, a lawyer wh the Comg Out gay rights group, said there are stanc of tolerance by some urts.
AN INTERVIEW WH A GAY, RSIAN NEO-NAZI
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MOST RSIANS SAY GAY SEX IS 'REPREHENSIBLE' AFTER 20-YEAR SPIKE HOMOPHOBIA, POLL SHOWS
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MEET THE GAY RSIAN TEENAGER USG TWTER TO COMBAT HOMOPHOBIA
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PUT’S PRI? SIX FAMO GAY SONS OF 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.
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. Gay rights activists prott Mosw on May 31, 2014.
RSIA TO GAYS: SHUT UP AND DISAPPEAR
More than 80 percent of Rsians nsir gay sex "reprehensible, " showg a massive spike LGBT tolerance over the past two s, acrdg to a new poll.