In a failed attempt to reassure the world ahead of the Sochi Olympics, the Rsian print fends anti-gay laws his untry
Contents:
- RSIAN PRINT VLADIMIR PUT IS 'LATENTLY GAY,' ALLEG CONTROVERSIAL NEW BGRAPHY
- RSIA BANS IMAGE 'HTG' THAT PUT IS GAY
- RSIA'S VLADIMIR PUT 'IS GAY' CLAIMS NTROVERSIAL NEW BGRAPHY
- 'THERE WILL BE DAD AND MUM': PUT L OUT RSIA LEGALIZG GAY MARRIAGE
- PUT TALKS GAY RIGHTS ON 60 MUT
- PUT EXPANDS ‘GAY PROPAGANDA’ BAN, THREATENG LGBTQ CRACKDOWN
- WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT RSIA’S SO-CALLED ‘GAY PROPAGANDA’ BILL
RSIAN PRINT VLADIMIR PUT IS 'LATENTLY GAY,' ALLEG CONTROVERSIAL NEW BGRAPHY
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Rsian Print Vladimir Put is a sexls man who may be secretly gay. In the book, Belkovsky, a long-time Put opponent, is also said to speculate that "sex and a sex life are alien" to the polician, who the 42-year-old thor says may be "latently gay.
Implitns of homosexualy would unrstandably not s well wh the Rsian lear and his ernment. In July, Harvey Fierste wrote an op-ed for The New York Tim that Put had "clared war on homosexuals" after he signed several anti-gay bills to law, cludg one that banned "homosexual propaganda.
RSIA BANS IMAGE 'HTG' THAT PUT IS GAY
Inter mem mockg Rsian Print Vladimir Put have bee a mon weapon wield by his polil opponents. Now, thori have banned one altered image showg Put wearg makp that they say suggts he is gay and slurs his supporters. * is president putin gay *
Dpe wispread ternatnal cricism, Put has fend the anti-gay measur and has sisted that neher he nor his ernment is homophobic. Before You GoStars Sound Off On Rsia's Anti-Gay Law Popular the CommunyYou May Like.
But publishg a retouched photograph of Put's face ma up drag -- suggtg he is gay -- uld now have ser nsequenc. Rsia has officially banned a photoshopped image showg Put wearg heavy makp that thori say hts at his "alleged nonstandard sexual orientatn" and also appears to have clud a mon slur for gay men.
The image was acpanied by a ptn that appeared to e a homophobic slur to pare Put's "voters" wh LGBT people, addg "they say there are a lot of them, but I don't know any. The pejorative was redacted the urt lg, but phrasg the ptn is nsistent wh an Inter meme that a slur agast gay people. Put has also been nounced for signg laws that his liberal opponents ll openly homophobic, cludg a 2013 law that bans the spreadg of "propaganda of nontradnal sexual relatns" among mors.
RSIA'S VLADIMIR PUT 'IS GAY' CLAIMS NTROVERSIAL NEW BGRAPHY
Life for LGBTQ people Ukrae had been improvg, while Rsian Print Vladimir Put has systematilly attacked gay and transgenr people. * is president putin gay *
Put says the legislatn, monly known as the "gay propaganda" law, is aimed at protectg children but do not ge on LGBT rights.
'THERE WILL BE DAD AND MUM': PUT L OUT RSIA LEGALIZG GAY MARRIAGE
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Mosw vented mours of Vladimir Put affair wh Olympic gymnast bee he 'is gay' claims ntroversial new bgraphyNew bgraphy claims Vladimir Put might be 'latently gay'Book, tled 'Put' also says his affairs are an ventn by his PRsPats print as a 'lonely polician' who prefers animals to humans Published: 12:15 BST, 3 December 2013 | Updated: 13:19 BST, 3 December 2013 A new bgraphy of Vladimir Put pats a picture of the Rsian print as a 'trmatised' man and speculat that he might be polil scientist Stanislav Belkovsky's book 'Put' claim the moured affair between the print and an Olympic gymnast was an ventn by his PR team and that he might be 'latently gay'The book also claims that the 61-year-old print fds sex 'alien' and that he prefers animals over humans. Rumours: A new bgraphy of Vladimir Put claims the Rsian print may be 'latently gay' Bgraphy: The book claims Put 'fle om people' orr to spend time nature wh his dogs Belkovsky has outraged the Kreml wh his book which he portrays the ler of the largt untry on earth as the weak son of an alholic. He says: ‘Sex and a sex life to him are alien, ’ and he speculat that he may be ‘latently gay.
”Over the last two s, Rsian Print Vladimir Put has waged an all-out asslt on the LGBTQ muny, amg as part of a larger mpaign to protect Rsia’s “tradnal culture” om what he scrib as an onslght of morn valu promoted by the has lled genr fluidy “a crime agast humany, ” and equated homosexualy wh pedophilia.
A “gay propaganda” law passed Rsia 2013 ma illegal to promote gay rights and has been ed to jail activists and shut down LGBTQ support groups. And durg a seri of anti-gay purg Rsia’s Mlim-majory Chechen Republic, which officials kidnapped, tortured and some s killed men spected of havg sex wh other men, the Kreml turned a bld the same time, life for LGBTQ people Ukrae has slowly been, wh tens of thoands of Rsian troops encirclg major Ukraian ci, gay, lbian and transgenr people are worried about what a Rsian takeover might mean for them. As Put has ma gay people the boogeymen for all of Rsia’s ills, Reid said, he has also fueled “a monstrable crease discrimatn and vlence.
PUT TALKS GAY RIGHTS ON 60 MUT
Yura Dvizhon, a director who helps n Ukrae’s annual gay pri celebratn. (Courty Yura Dvizhon) “If we were unr Rsian le, we’d have to shut our mouths, we wouldn’t be able to drs how we want, we would never have gay pri, ” said Yura Dvizhon, 29, a well-known Ukraian director.
PUT EXPANDS ‘GAY PROPAGANDA’ BAN, THREATENG LGBTQ CRACKDOWN
(Daniel Leal / AFP via Getty Imag) Ukrae was never a utopia for gays and transgenr people, Dvizhon marriage is illegal Ukrae, LGBTQ people are not protected by anti-discrimatn laws, and the fluential Christian Orthodox Church views homosexualy as a s. Last year’s annual gay pri para Kyiv drew 7, 000 people — a victory, even if police were lled to fend off anti-gay protters. Opn polls show Ukraians have bee more acceptg of gay rights over the last .
WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT RSIA’S SO-CALLED ‘GAY PROPAGANDA’ BILL
In 2019, Print Volodymyr Zelensky snapped back at a homophobic heckler who had terpted his speech.
”While there are still ncrete laws — an anti-discrimatn bill foremost among them — that the natn’s LGBTQ muny is wag for, everybody knows that the suatn for gay people Rsia is “much, much, much worse, ” said Natsya Kosach, a lbian DJ Kyiv. “I know gay guys who are the Terrorial Defense [Ukrae’s ary rerve force] and nobody is sayg anythg to them.
“This is a homophobic, transphobic place, ” she said.