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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

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. 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.

RSIA BANS IMAGE 'HTG' THAT PUT IS GAY

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.

Put says the legislatn, monly known as the "gay propaganda" law, is aimed at protectg children but do not ge on LGBT rights. 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.

RSIA'S VLADIMIR PUT 'IS GAY' CLAIMS NTROVERSIAL NEW BGRAPHY

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.

Yura Dvizhon, a director who helps n Ukrae’s annual gay pri celebratn.

'THERE WILL BE DAD AND MUM': PUT L OUT RSIA LEGALIZG GAY MARRIAGE

(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. (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 . 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.

PUT TALKS GAY RIGHTS ON 60 MUT

“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. The regn has bee more homophobic sce then, she said.

She believ anti-gay and trans discrimatn has s roots the Orthodox Church but also the Soviet Unn, which broke up Soviet society, nformy was prized. The European Court of Human Rights led 2017 that the 2013 law is discrimatory, promot homophobia and vlat the European Conventn on Human Rights.

PUT EXPANDS ‘GAY PROPAGANDA’ BAN, THREATENG LGBTQ CRACKDOWN

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.

MOSCOW - Print Vladimir Put said on Thursday Rsia would not legalize gay marriage as long as he was the ma clear he would not allow the tradnal notn of mother and father to be subverted by what he lled “parent number 1” and “parent number 2.

WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT RSIA’S SO-CALLED ‘GAY PROPAGANDA’ BILL

There will be dad and mum, ” Put his two s power, Put has closely aligned himself wh the Orthodox Church and sought to distance Rsia om liberal Wtern valu, cludg attus toward homosexualy and genr ma the ments as he met a state missn to discs chang to Rsia’s missn was set up last month after Put announced sweepg chang to Rsia’s polil system that are wily seen as beg signed to help him extend his grip on power after his schled parture om office proposals have sce been put forward and Put was asked to ment on a proposal to add a le the nstutn fg marriage as a unn between a man and a woman. Ten years ago, a bill was passed banng so-lled "gay propaganda" relatn to children.

Human rights groups say that was followed by a rise vlent homophobic attacks Rsia. But the fear generated by the legislatn is already leadg to censorship: onle cemas have leted LGBT-themed films and TV seri and eded out gay scen. In one episo of the highly-acclaimed HBO seri The Whe Lot, a Rsian streamg service changed the word "gay" to "man", eded a towel onto one male character's bare backsi and leted a gay sex scene, jt days after the law was ptn, The book Shattered, about the romance between two men, has been heavily redacted RsiaBooks, too, are beg censored.

The text has been redacted by the publisher, wh whole sectns replaced wh black of the -thors of the law, an openly homophobic natnalist lled Valy Milonov, agre to speak to me via violk. Though Rsia crimalized homosexualy 1993, amendments to the Rsian Constutn 2020 banned LGBTQ+ unns the untry — an actn that was clared a human rights vlatn by the European Court of Human Rights. Put has even prevly said that Rsia mt "cleanse" self of homosexualy.