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Contents:
- RSIAN NSTUTN CHANGE ENDS HOP FOR GAY MARRIAGE
- RSIA MOV TO BAN GAY MARRIAGE
- WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT RSIA’S SO-CALLED ‘GAY PROPAGANDA’ BILL
RSIAN NSTUTN CHANGE ENDS HOP FOR GAY MARRIAGE
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Although Rsia crimalized homosexualy s ago, animosy agast gays remas high.
In 2012, the Mosw cy ernment orred that gay pri paras be banned for the next 100 years. Attacks on the gay muny persist. Dozens of other activists received ath threats om an obscure anti-gay group that claimed rponsibily for the killg of Grigoryeva, who was stabbed repeatedly and showed signs of 2017, reports of extrajudicial arrts, torture and killgs of gay men the republic of Chechnya drew ternatnal year, Andrei Vaganov and Yevgeny Yerofeyev, a uple raisg two adopted children, had to flee Rsia after a doctor reported them to police and thori opened a crimal se.
RSIA MOV TO BAN GAY MARRIAGE
Adoptn by same-sex upl is banned Rsia, but Vaganov had applied as a sgle Olenichev, a lawyer wh the Comg Out gay rights group, said there are stanc of tolerance by some urts. He said he has worked on seven ctody s which judg refed to take away ctody, sayg that sexual orientatn don’t play a role a child’s he is ncerned that the nstutnal chang will enurage anti-gay views. “Our society really looks up to what the ernment do, so any kds of public actns promotg homophobia, transphobia, biphobia, many people may perceive as a ll for actn.
”Print Vladimir Put has rejected cricism of the nstutnal amendments and the gay propaganda said that some untri, “crimal law provisns still exist unr which people of nontradnal sexual orientatn n be persecuted crimally, as was the Soviet Unn. 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.
WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT RSIA’S SO-CALLED ‘GAY PROPAGANDA’ BILL
Seven senators submted a draft bill late Tuday to amend Rsia’s Fay Co and legally ban gay marriage and adoptns, cludg, acrdg to s thors, by transgenr people. Durg his two s power, Put has closely aligned himself wh the Orthodox Church and sought to distance Rsia om Wtern valu cludg liberal attus toward homosexualy and genr fluidy. In 2013, 20 years after Rsia crimalized homosexualy, Put signed legislatn banng “gay propaganda toward mors” that has been ed to shut down gay pri events and silence activists.
Legal experts have exprsed ncern that Rsia’s nstutnal ban on LGBT marriag will enurage anti-gay views. The draft bill banng gay marriage will need to go through three rounds of votg the State Duma and one the upper-hoe Feratn Council before landg on Put’s sk for signg.
In December 2022, Rsia expand s existg “gay propaganda” law to exert ntrol over public discsns and narrativ surroundg non-heterosexual relatnships and inti.