'We're not hidg': Gay and lbian Rsians say a cultural shift is unrway

Contents:

• A RSIAN TEEN WAS REPORTEDLY ARRTED FOR "GAY PROPAGANDA"
• CONTROVERSY EPTS OVER SCREENG OF GAY TEEN DOCUMENTARY RSIA
• RSIAN GAY PORN VIOS
• MEET THE GAY RSIAN TEEN USG TWTER TO FIGHT HOMOPHOBIA
• GAY RSIAN TEENS MUNITE SECRET TO AVOID LAW ON 'PROPAGANDA'
• 'WE'RE NOT HIDG': GAY AND LBIAN RSIANS SAY A CULTURAL SHIFT IS UNRWAY
• RSIAN LGBT TEEN ADVOCY SE CHARGED UNR 'GAY PROPAGANDA' LAW

A RSIAN TEEN WAS REPORTEDLY ARRTED FOR "GAY PROPAGANDA"

In Rsia, a law known as the “gay propaganda law, ” or the “antigay law” the Uned Stat and other parts of the world, ultimately mak illegal to participate any activy or e any language that thori em to promote "homosexualy, " which n clu equatg gay or queer relatnships wh straight relatnships or distributg any kd of gay rights material.

CONTROVERSY EPTS OVER SCREENG OF GAY TEEN DOCUMENTARY RSIA

Rsia is also known for vlence toward gay men the regn of Chechnya, where men who are outwardly open about their sexualy, or even perceived to be gay, have been round up and sent to makhift prisons. Recently, a Rsian teenager named Maxim Neverov, who is only 16 years old, has bee the first mor charged unr the “gay propaganda” law, acrdg to NBC News.

Maxim, who is volved wh Prott Biysk, a civil rights anizg project, also recently anized a performance lled “Gays or Put.

”Other young Rsians have taken siar risks to fight back and spread hope for their muni, cludg 23-year-old Artem Kolov, who posted a YouTube vio 2017 which he me out as gay, and explaed the ndns that LGBTQ people face his untry.

RSIAN GAY PORN VIOS

Gay activists Rsia ntue to prott vlatns of ee speech and exprsn — last week, approximately two dozen activists were taed St. Petersburg for prottg the cy’s rejectn of their requt to hold a gay pri has said that he isn’t aaid of the police, and that he won’t stop advotg for LGBTQ rights. A ntroversy has stirred up over the screeng of a documentary about gay teens at the Pacific Meridians ftival Vladivostok last month as activists are potg out to vlatns of a much disputed law “agast gay propaganda among mors.

A lol televisn statn, People’s Patrtic Channel, ran an vtigatn which said showed that spe the 18+ ratg of the documentary Deti 404 (Children 404), foced on the issue of gay teens, tickets to the screeng were sold whout a proper ID check.

Read more ‘Blue Is the Warmt Color’ Attacked Rsia Unr Gay Propaganda Law.

MEET THE GAY RSIAN TEEN USG TWTER TO FIGHT HOMOPHOBIA

Directed by Askold Kurov and Pavel Loparev, the film has been the middle of ntroversy before bee of the “gay propaganda” law enacted last year, which acrdg to some observers serv to crack down on the Rsian gay muny rather than protect mors.

GAY RSIAN TEENS MUNITE SECRET TO AVOID LAW ON 'PROPAGANDA'

Unr the “gay propaganda” law, only people over 18 n be allowed to a screeng ntag gay material. Read more Rsian Stagg of Classic Play Cleared of ‘Gay Propaganda’ Accatns.

Some other films have been also attacked unr the “gay propaganda” law, cludg Blue is the Warmt Color. In December 2022, Rsia expand s existg “gay propaganda” law to exert ntrol over public discsns and narrativ surroundg non-heterosexual relatnships and inti.

As a gay man a untry that ma anti-gay iology a foundatn of s anti-Ukrae propaganda, he feared for his life every day. In his seven years as a gay activist, Maysky has never seen Rsian-speakg LGBTQ+ immigrants g to California such great numbers.

'WE'RE NOT HIDG': GAY AND LBIAN RSIANS SAY A CULTURAL SHIFT IS UNRWAY

Petersburg who left Rsia after his parents threatened to sue his therapist who backed him receivg hormone therapy; and Ivan, 18, who is gay, half Rsian and half Ukraian, and “didn’t want to kill people. Thoands of members of the LGBTQ+ muny are fleeg Rsia’s anti-gay laws.

“My parents are very nservative and they don’t believe gay people should exist, ” said Max, who didn’t disclose his last name for fear of retaliatn agast his parents who live St. Most of his iends are the closet or fled the untry — and many of them, he said, were vlently attacked by anti-gay groups before they left.

RSIAN LGBT TEEN ADVOCY SE CHARGED UNR 'GAY PROPAGANDA' LAW

Thoands of members of the LGBTQ+ muny are fleeg Rsia due to anti-gay laws. A survey published 2020 by Mosw-based non-ernmental rearch anizatn the Levada Center, found that about 30% of Rsians wanted to isolate gay people om society. One of the rearchers, Ekatera Kochega, told NBC News that many Rsians “would not want to see gay people existg.