Contents:
- WHY RSIA TURNED AGAST THE GAYS
- RSIA'S ANTI-GAY LAW, SPELLED OUT PLA ENGLISH
- WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT RSIA’S SO-CALLED ‘GAY PROPAGANDA’ BILL
WHY RSIA TURNED AGAST THE GAYS
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.
RSIA'S ANTI-GAY LAW, SPELLED OUT PLA ENGLISH
In December 2022, Rsia expand s existg “gay propaganda” law to exert ntrol over public discsns and narrativ surroundg non-heterosexual relatnships and inti. Mizula heads the Duma's mtee for fay, women, and children and has bee the stern face of Rsia's mpaign agast gays.
Homosexualy wasn't really a topic of nversatn Rsia for much of the last two s. Laws banng gay sex were lifted 1993, two years after the Soviet llapse. Slowly but surely, gay clubs began to appear Mosw and St Petersburg, at first unrground, eventually out the open.
Rsian society remaed wily homophobic, and there were many who saw gays and lbians as an evable and evil Wtern import, but there were other thgs to worry about — reverg om the llapse of a polil-enomic system, clawg out of poverty, alg wh the explosn of vlence that engulfed a untry sudnly flowg wh sh and then me Vladimir spent the first two terms of his princy, om 2000 to 2008, lg wh no iology.
WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT RSIA’S SO-CALLED ‘GAY PROPAGANDA’ BILL
" Th the law passed by the Duma jt hours after the anti-gay law was passed, makg "sultg relig believers" an offense punishable by up to three years send easit thg has been to monize the "Other, " creatg an ternal enemy for everyone to fear. Gays.
Demonizg gays allows Put to tell the "heartland": I will protect you and your "tradnal" fai; you are the real Rsia. It also grows spicn of the liberal opposn, prented as fundamentally "un-Rsian" as they stand up creasgly for gay rights amid Put's growg crackdown.
And fally, allows Rsia to do what do bt the days: prent self as Not The is no accint that Rsia is strippg away gay rights as (popular and legal) support for gay marriage the U. As Patriarch Kirill, the head of the Rsian Orthodox Church, recently put : gay marriage is a "dangero apolyptic system" that leads a natn "on a path of self-stctn.