In an unexpected victory for gay rights, the first mor to be charged Rsia for promotg homosexualy won a urt appeal on Friday fense of his right to post photos on social media of men embracg.
Contents:
- MEET THE GAY RSIAN TEENAGER USG TWTER TO COMBAT HOMOPHOBIA
- IN LGBT+ RIGHTS VICTORY, RSIAN TEEN WS 'GAY PROPAGANDA' SE
- WHO CONTROLS A GAY RSIAN TEEN-AGER’S STORY?
- GAY RSIAN TEENS MUNITE SECRET TO AVOID LAW ON 'PROPAGANDA'
- 'NOT SRED': RSIAN TEEN CHARGED UNR 'GAY PROPAGANDA' LAW SAYS HE'LL KEEP PROTTG
MEET THE GAY RSIAN TEENAGER USG TWTER TO COMBAT HOMOPHOBIA
Apart om activists prottg Mosw and Sat Petersburg, most gay Rsians have attempted to mask their inty, makg difficult for Wterners to know what ’s really like to be gay Rsia. But one gay Rsian teenager is changg this... * russia gay teen *
MOSCOW (Thomson Rters Foundatn) - In an unexpected victory for gay rights, the first mor to be charged Rsia for promotg homosexualy won a urt appeal on Friday fense of his right to post photos on social media of men Neverov was fed 50, 000 bl ($760) Augt after a missn on juvenile affairs found him guilty of “promotg non-tradnal sexual relatnship among mors” had posted onle photos of shirtls men openly huggg a natn where gays face legal challeng and risk wispread an appeal the cy urt of Biysk and several heargs, a judge found there was not enough evince to tablish Neverov’s guilt and overturned the fe.
Neverov was the first mor - age 18 or unr Rsia - to be fed unr the law, which mak illegal any event or act regard by thori as an attempt to promote homosexualy to has been ed to stop gay pri march and to ta gay rights activists. Neverov’s lawyer Artyom Lapov, a member of the gay rights group Rsian LGBT Network, said the lg is “a signal to the LGBT muny that they n, and should, fight for their rights. Rsian urts rarely acqu people acced of “gay propaganda”, Network spokwoman Svetlana Zakharova told the Thomson Rters Foundatn.
“This se shows that the jtice system is aware that the implementatn of the [gay propaganda] law often go too far.
IN LGBT+ RIGHTS VICTORY, RSIAN TEEN WS 'GAY PROPAGANDA' SE
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Homosexualy was a crimal offense Rsia until 1993 and classed as a mental illns until year, the European Court of Human Rights led that the Rsian gay propaganda law breached European treaty l, vlated the right to eedom of exprsn and discrimated agast LGBT people - a lg Mosw lled.
WHO CONTROLS A GAY RSIAN TEEN-AGER’S STORY?
At a lol church, he met a gay uple, two elrly ary veterans who were raisg two adopted boys. They promised to shelter him, to fix him up wh a uple of gay lawyers who would handle his asylum se, and even, acrdg to the Rsian prs acunts, to pay for him to attend Harvard. Thori would perm her to meet wh him only the prence of Rsian nsular officials and the boy’s gay lawyers.
GAY RSIAN TEENS MUNITE SECRET TO AVOID LAW ON 'PROPAGANDA'
The boy had met a gay uple through a lol L. The Rsians, the lawyers told me, ma clear that beg homosexual—which they believed the boy had bee unr the fluence of Amerins—did not f their fn of “well. He has moved out of the group home and wh the gay uple om the Kalamazoo L.
” The lead paragraph of the Washgton Post’s article ced a “former participant’s cisn to stay wh a gay uple”—an assertn that the paper repeated the followg day an eloquent edorial on Rsian homophobia, xenophobia, and rptn. A story the Tim stated that the program was ncelled “after a teenage Rsian boy who beiend a gay uple sought asylum the Uned Stat. Only one person knew that Svetlana was gay when she wrote to Deti-404, a Rsian support group for lbian teenagers.
In her letter, the 16-year-old scribed a life of hidg her sexualy a small town central Rsia where a man had been killed for beg a homosexual. Or at least be tolerant of me', " she, which tak s name om the error page that appears when a webse do not exist, was set up by Lena Klimova, 25, after she wrote an article about the plight of LGBT (lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr) teenagers. "The small support group is one of the few for young gay people Rsia.
'NOT SRED': RSIAN TEEN CHARGED UNR 'GAY PROPAGANDA' LAW SAYS HE'LL KEEP PROTTG
It would also seem to be exactly the thg that the ntroversial anti-gay law passed by the Rsian parliament wish to crack down on. The law, siar to the sectn 28 law that was passed by Margaret Thatcher's ernment 1988, bans the dissematn of "propaganda of non-tradnal sexual orientatn" towards unr-18s and impos f on anyone legislatn has ed an outcry the wt, leadg Stephen Fry to pared the suatn of gays and lbians Rsia to that of Jews Nazi Germany. Teenagers smaller towns – where there are few, if any, openly out people and no gay scene – have the harst.
"Our school is nsired progrsive, but is que normal for teachers to say that homosexuals will burn hell, " wrote one 16-year-old om a small town "which isn't even on the map".
"She lls homosexuals – and that means me too – mutants.