This article explor how lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr/transsexual (LGBT) people's perceptn of creasg nservative trends and negative public attus affected the velopment of LGBT rights activism Rsia. It clus followg sectns: (1) the analysis of the velopment of …
Contents:
- 'WE'RE NOT HIDG': GAY AND LBIAN RSIANS SAY A CULTURAL SHIFT IS UNRWAY
- ‘I’M AAID FOR MY FUTURE’: PROPOSED LAWS THREATEN GAY LIFE RSIA
- THE FEAR OF BEG GAY RSIA
'WE'RE NOT HIDG': GAY AND LBIAN RSIANS SAY A CULTURAL SHIFT IS UNRWAY
* lgbt community in russia *
In December 2022, Rsia expand s existg “gay propaganda” law to exert ntrol over public discsns and narrativ surroundg non-heterosexual relatnships and inti. An NHL team wh a Rsian player has cid agast wearg special warmup jerseys to memorate Pri night, cg an anti-gay Kreml law. A story for children about fai wh same-sex parents has been published Rsia as part of a mpaign to have the untry’s ‘gay propaganda’ law repealed.
As the global LGBT muny marks Pri Month, lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr people face growg, state-sanctned homophobia and vlence Rsia, activists say. In s World Report 2023, the New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) noted that Rsia has adopted “new, homophobic legislatn and ramped up homophobic…rhetoric.
‘I’M AAID FOR MY FUTURE’: PROPOSED LAWS THREATEN GAY LIFE RSIA
Mama always knew that I was gay. I nnot image anythg better for a [gay] Chechen than havg your mother stop talkg about marryg you off or curg you and, stead, jt treatg you normally. I realized that a wch hunt agast gays was gog on Chechnya back 2017 om the woman I worked for.
Recently I found my younger brother on a gay datg se. Turns out he is eher bisexual or gay. If my relativ fd out that two brothers one fay are gay, they will take very badly.
He don’t nsir himself gay. I have always been amazed that there are famo gays and nothg happens to them, but ordary guys go to one wrong meetg and that’s .
THE FEAR OF BEG GAY RSIA
About 97 percent of gay datg announcements are traps. A lot of gays extort other gays. It banned, quote, "propaganda of homosexualy and pedophilia among mors.