We ll on the Rsian thori to cease targetg the largt and most proment LGBTI rights group Rsia and foster a normal workg environment for activists for the rights of lbian, gay, bisexual, tersex and transgenr people the untry.
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- ‘I’M AAID FOR MY FUTURE’: PROPOSED LAWS THREATEN GAY LIFE RSIA
- ‘OUR MERE EXISTENCE IS ILLEGAL.’ AS MOSW TOUGHENS ANTI-GAY LAW, LGBTQ RSIANS FEAR FOR THE FUTURE
- IS ILLEGAL TO BE GAY RSIA? DOCUMENTG RSIA’S ANTI-LGBTQ LAWS
‘I’M AAID FOR MY FUTURE’: PROPOSED LAWS THREATEN GAY LIFE RSIA
It is the latt attack on LGBT rights the untry, after another anti-gay law was extend last year. * lgbt rights russia *
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.
‘OUR MERE EXISTENCE IS ILLEGAL.’ AS MOSW TOUGHENS ANTI-GAY LAW, LGBTQ RSIANS FEAR FOR THE FUTURE
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In December 2022, Rsia expand s existg “gay propaganda” law to exert ntrol over public discsns and narrativ surroundg non-heterosexual relatnships and inti.
It banned, quote, "propaganda of homosexualy and pedophilia among mors." Can you talk about, how do this new law that we mentned expand on that 2013 law?HEALEY: It spans the same range of thgs, propaganda for non-tradnal sexual relatns, but among adults as well as mors. And particularly where that base of support is close to relig views, there is a lot of crossover there that works for polil opportunists who are g official forms of homophobia to fe their polil stance.CHANG: That is Dan Healey, profsor of Rsian history at the Universy of Oxford. We ll on the Rsian thori to cease targetg the largt and most proment LGBTI rights group Rsia and foster a normal workg environment for activists for the rights of lbian, gay, bisexual, tersex and transgenr people the untry.
IS ILLEGAL TO BE GAY RSIA? DOCUMENTG RSIA’S ANTI-LGBTQ LAWS
LGBT Rights Rsia: homosexualy, gay marriage, gay adoptn, servg the ary, sexual orientatn discrimatn protectn, changg legal genr, donatg blood, age of nsent, and more. * lgbt rights russia *
Usg rogatory and offensive language towards the LGBTI muny, a program by the ernmental broadster Vti lled the Rsian LGBT Network a “web of gay-propaganda, ” suggtg that the Network “feeble-md youth” to reach s “propaganda” goals.