Wh Rsia set to host next year’s Wter Olympics, ternatnal attentn is focsed on the untry’s relatnship wh s gay and lbian cizens.
Contents:
- THE HISTORY OF HOMOSEXUALY RSIA: OM SOVIET SEX CHANG TO GAY GULAGS
- A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
- 'WE'RE NOT HIDG': GAY AND LBIAN RSIANS SAY A CULTURAL SHIFT IS UNRWAY
THE HISTORY OF HOMOSEXUALY RSIA: OM SOVIET SEX CHANG TO GAY GULAGS
Members of a gay rights group at a prott St Petersburg, Rsia 2008. ()In morn Rsia, legislatn is pendg that would allow thori to take children away om gay parents.
Already, promotg a homosexual liftyle is illegal. Homosexualy was crimalised Rsia after the fall of the Soviet Unn, but gay and lbian cizens say they are beg subjected to a 'classic hate mpaign', backed up by hardle legal reforms. Earlier this year, the Rsian parliament passed legislatn makg illegal to promote a homosexual liftyle to mors.
A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
A new law has now been drafted that would allow Rsian thori to take children away om homosexual parents. Experts say the untry has a troubled history when to s treatment of homosexualy Healey is Profsor of Morn Rsian History at the Universy of Oxford and the thor of Homosexual Dire Revolutnary Rsia.
'WE'RE NOT HIDG': GAY AND LBIAN RSIANS SAY A CULTURAL SHIFT IS UNRWAY
He explaed that while the Tsarist regime crimalised male homosexualy 1835, a bld eye was turned to ‘ordary homosexual behavur’ the last year and a half the Kreml has been nng a ncerted mpaign of hatred on televisn...