STORY: Rsia has approved a bill that wins a ban on so-lled "LGBT propaganda" and rtricts the "monstratn" of LGBT behavr. The l make any exprsn of an LGBT liftyle almost actn or rmatn that is nsired an attempt to promote homosexualy - whether public, onle, or films, books or advertisg - uld now cur a heavy fe.Prevly, the law had only outlawed promotn of LGBT liftyl aimed at children.Lawmakers say they are fendg tradnal valu of the "Rsian world" agast a liberal Wt that they say is termed to stroy crics see the move as an attempt to further timidate and opprs sexual mori ;s lawyer om Rsian LGBTQ support anizatn "Comg Out", Ksenia Mikhailova."This is a signal that all typ of vlence agast LGBT people are allowed by the state - as already happened 2013 when there was a wave of hate crim agast LGBT (people). Now will be a tsunami."The fe will be up to $6,600 for dividuals and up to $82,100 for legal enti. Foreigners uld face 15 days of arrt and subsequent expulsn om the Rsia, thori have already ed existg laws to stop gay pri march and ta gay rights activists.Polil scientist Ekatera Schulmann says the aim of the wined legislatn is two fold: To prent Rsia as the savur of tradnal valu, and to allow Rsian thori wir oversight of the ter and 'rmatnal sphere' across the untry." most tertg part is the passage that leads to (media regulator) Roskomnadzor - the Rsian feral service for watchg over the ter of the rmatnal sphere general - new thory and rponsibily to monor all sorts of rmatn search of this 'harmful propaganda'."Human rights groups say the new law is tend to drive so-lled "non-tradnal" LGBT liftyl...practiced by lbians, gay men, bisexuals and transgenr people out of public life app TikTok was even fed 3 ln roubl last month for promotg "vios wh LGBT them."While Rsia's media regulator asked publishg ho to look at whdrawg all books ntag "LGBT propaganda" om bill will need the approval of the upper hoe of parliament and Print Vladimir Put before g to force.
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WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT RSIA’S SO-CALLED ‘GAY PROPAGANDA’ BILL
It is the latt attack on LGBT rights the untry, after another anti-gay law was extend last year. * russian lgbt propaganda law *
In December 2022, Rsia expand s existg “gay propaganda” law to exert ntrol over public discsns and narrativ surroundg non-heterosexual relatnships and inti. The discrimatory law propos to ban all Rsians om promotg or “praisg” homosexual relatnships or publicly suggtg that they are “normal. The European Court of Human Rights led 2017 that Rsia’s so-lled “gay propaganda 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.