18 Anti-Gay Groups and Their Propaganda | Southern Poverty Law Center

Contents:

• GAY PROPAGANDA
• BRISH, CANADIAN AND US EMBASSI FLY PRI FLAG RSIA, WHERE ‘GAY PROPAGANDA’ IS ILLEGAL
• ACTIVISTS WARN RSIA EXPANDG ‘GAY PROPAGANDA’ LAW SIGNALS ‘HEARTBREAKG’ TURN ON LGBTQ+ RIGHTS
• RSIA PASS LAW BANNG GAY 'PROPAGANDA'
• PROPAGANDA (CLOSED)NOTTGHAMMENUHOTELSBARSGAY MAPUK · SNA & CISEUK INXPROPAGANDA (CLOSED)
• 18 ANTI-GAY GROUPS AND THEIR PROPAGANDA

GAY PROPAGANDA

In June, the Hungarian parliament voted overwhelmgly to elimate om public schools all teachg related to “homosexualy and genr change”, associatg LGBTQI rights and tn wh pedophilia and totalarian cultural polics. Although not always acrd, the groups ncur that the tradnal fay is unr attack, that children the classroom are beg doctrated to bee homosexuals, and that “genr” is a dangero, if not diabolil, iology threateng to stroy fai, lol cultur, civilizatn, and even “man” now seri labelIt is not easy to fully renstct the arguments ed by the anti-genr iology movement bee they do not hold themselv to standards of nsistency or herence. They believe that children are beg told to change genrs, are actively reced by gay and trans people, or prsured to clare themselv as gay tnal settgs where an open disurse about genr is ritured as a form of doctratn.

The third is Agenda Europe, nsistg of more than 100 anizatns, which sts gay marriage, trans rights, reproductive eedom, and LGBTQI anti-discrimatn efforts as asslts on movements are not jt reactnary but fascist trends, the kd that support creasgly thorarian ernments.

BRISH, CANADIAN AND US EMBASSI FLY PRI FLAG RSIA, WHERE ‘GAY PROPAGANDA’ IS ILLEGAL

The bill, which wasn’t a direct expansn of the existg ‘gay propaganda’ law, claimed the so-lled promotn of LGBTQ+ relatnships and child-ee liftyl are as dangero for Rsian society as propaganda about dgs, suici and extremism.

ACTIVISTS WARN RSIA EXPANDG ‘GAY PROPAGANDA’ LAW SIGNALS ‘HEARTBREAKG’ TURN ON LGBTQ+ RIGHTS

There have been reports the existg ‘gay propaganda’ law has been ed by thori as a way to clamp down on LGBTQ+ advot, prevent young people om accsg clive media and ban LGBTQ-themed ntent on streamg platforms aimed at kids. Rsia’s parliament has passed the third and fal readg of a law banng “LGBT propaganda” among all adults, as Mosw ramps up s nservative ph at home amid the war Ukrae that passed the ne-month mark on bill crimalis any act regard as an attempt to promote what Rsia lls “non-tradnal sexual relatns” – film, onle, advertisg or public – and expands on a notor 2013 law that banned “propaganda of nontradnal sexual relatns” among mors and was ed to ta gay rights the new law, dividuals n be fed up to 400, 000 roubl (£5, 400) and anisatns 5m roubl (£68, 500) for “propagandisg nontradnal sexual relatns”, while foreigners uld face up to 15 days’ arrt and expulsn om rights groups and LGBTQ+ activists say the extensn of the law means any act or public mentn of same-sex relatnships is functnally beg Rsian print, Vladimir Put, is expected to sign the bill the g the start of the war Ukrae, the Kreml has lnched a h effort to promote “tradnal valu”, wh the Rsian lear makg anti-gay rhetoric one of the rnerston of his polil a recent speech, Put acced the wt of “movg towards open satanism”, cg the promotn of gay and transgenr rights Europe as an example. ”Kochetkov said the bill was also an attempt by the Kreml to look for ternal enemi and distract attentn om battlefield past newsletter promotnafter newsletter promotnHuman rights crics fear the law will be ed to close down pennt film and book ftivals, makg the topic of gay sexual orientatn sentially taboo Rsia.

Kochetkov’s LGBT Network, wh a number of other human rights groups, has also received the “foreign agent” label, a Soviet-era tag signed to target groups the thori say receive “foreign fundg” and engage “polil activy” while the Rsian ernment has expand s attacks on LGBTQ+ rights, recent pollg has dited parts of Rsian society are beg more tolerant towards the gay muny, wh a 2019 poll showg that 68% of younger Rsians view the LGBTQ+ muny as “normal” July, Daria Kasatka, Rsia’s hight-ranked female tennis player, me out as gay, a move appld by fellow athlet and parts of the Rsian public. Rsia's parliament has unanimoly passed a feral law banng gay "propaganda" amid a Kreml ph to enshre eply nservative valu that crics say has already led to a sharp crease anti-gay law passed 436-0 on Tuday, wh jt one puty abstag om votg on the bill, which bans the spreadg of "propaganda of non-tradnal sexual relatns" among law effect mak illegal to equate straight and gay relatnships, as well as the distributn of material on gay rights.

Mut after passg the anti-gay legislatn, the Duma also approved a new law allowg jail sentenc of up to three years for "offendg relig feelgs", an iative lnched the wake of the trial agast the anti-Kreml punk band Psy two laws were wily cricised by Rsia's margalised liberal and human rights muni and e amid a wir crackdown agast pennt civil activy the untry. Put, who often mak a show of his fah, has creasgly lled upon the church to fill his own iologil vacuum followg a ntted printial electn last year, acpanied by unprecented protts agast se agast Psy Rt – which three members were found guilty of "hooliganism motivated by relig hatred" after performg an anti-Put anthem si a Mosw church – was wily seen as the lnch of an ultra-nservative 's anti-gay law, whose text was softened to remove explic referrals to "homosexual propaganda", troduc f of up to 100, 000 roubl (£1, 975) for dividuals who have ed the media or ter to promote "non-tradnal relatns".

RSIA PASS LAW BANNG GAY 'PROPAGANDA'

“As today’s report mak clear, that perd many endured the most horrific sexual abe and vlence, homophobic bullyg and harassment, all while bravely servg this untry, ” Sunak told Parliament.

Veterans’ ttimoni “give shockg evince of a culture of homophobia, and of bullyg, blackmail and sexual asslts, abive vtigatns to sexual orientatn and sexual preference, disgraceful medil examatns, cludg nversn therapy, ” the report said. “From a personal pot of view, the ban affected me terms of who I was and what I uldn’t be for 34 years, ” Holm ban on homosexualy was abandoned 2000, when the European Court of Human Rights led favor of four service personnel who were vtigated and then discharged bee of their sexualy.

Twenty years after homosexualy was crimalised Rsia, anti-gay legislatn is makg a rapid eback, wh St Petersburg beg the latt cy to ban "homosexual propaganda" law, signed by St Petersburg's ernor last week, me amid creasg lls by leadg Rsian policians and Orthodox Church officials to brg anti-gay laws to the feral level. "The tenncy Rsia is toward limg eedom of speech and eedom to gather, targetg any group that somehow stands up for s rights, " said Yury Gavrikov, the head of Equaly, one of several gay rights groups St Petersburg. All Out, a global gay rights group, has lled on people to avoid travellg to the cy until the law is Petersburg's ernor, Gey Poltavchenko, signed the law on 7 March, his office said on Sunday.

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He has also sued the law's iator, St Petersburg Uned Rsia puty, Valy Milonov, for 1m roubl after the polician lled him a girl who supported himself on wtern laws that crimalised homosexualy were repealed 1993, but anti-gay sentiment remas wispread Rsia. Yet the same poll found that 41% supported laws banng discrimatn based on sexual orientatn, while 31% were agast and the rt were officials and close alli of the print-elect, Vladimir Put, cludg the former ernor of St Petersburg and head of Rsia's Feratn Council, Valenta Matviyenko, support the tablishment of natnal anti-gay pri paras are regularly banned Rsia and vlently broken up by police.

Even as some well-known anti-gay groups like Foc on the Fay morate their views, a hard re of smaller groups, most of them religly motivated, have ntued to pump out monizg propaganda aimed at homosexuals and other sexual mori. The groups’ fluence reach far beyond what their size would suggt, bee the “facts” they dissemate about homosexualy are often amplified by certa policians, other groups and even news anizatns. The book mak a seri of claims that virtually no ser historian agre wh: that Hler was gay, that “the Nazi Party was entirely ntrolled by aristic homosexuals, ” and that gays were pecially selected for the SS bee of their nate btaly.

18 ANTI-GAY GROUPS AND THEIR PROPAGANDA

Takg a page om the anti-gay fabulist Stt Lively (see Abidg Tth Mistri, above), Fischer claimed a blog post last May 27 that “[h]omosexualy gave Adolph Hler, and homosexuals the ary gave the Brown Shirts, the Nazi war mache and 6 ln ad Jews. In a 2010 “actn alert, ” the AFA warned that if homosexuals are allowed to openly serve the ary, “your son or dghter may be forced to share ary showers and barracks wh active and open homosexuals. Amerins for Tth About Homosexualy (AFTAH) was formed as a part-time venture 1996 by long-time gay-basher Peter LaBarbera, who reanized 2006 as a much more ser and fluential, if often vic, operatn.

A one-time reporter for the nservative Washgton Tim, LaBarbera has been an energetic mpaigner agast “the radil homosexual agenda” sce at least 1993, when he lnched The Lambda Report, which claimed to do first-hand reportg to expose s gay enemi.