The drama, starrg Zachary Quto and Jam Fran as a gay uple, has been add to September's Amft.
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U.S. EMBASSY MOSW DEFI ANTI-GAY LAW WH ‘I AM MICHAEL’ SCREENG
I like to s at marker 10; 's low-key, wh good-lookg people, and 's a close walk to the gay beach. In what looks like a direct move to prott Rsia’s anti-gay laws, a film ftival sponsored by the U. Embassy Mosw has add gay-themed drama I Am Michael to s lp.
In light of the Rsia’s anti-gay laws, which make illegal the promotn of a gay liftyle to mors and other so-lled “gay propaganda, ” planng to screen I Am Michael looks like as much of a polil as an artistic cisn on the part of Amft anizers and backers. The film, Jt Kelly‘s directorial but, tells the credible te story of a gay activist (Fran), who, after a health sre, is “saved” om his homosexualy and be a Christian pastor wh a girliend. Rsia’s anti-gay “propaganda” law om 2013 do not explicly ban films wh gay ntent, nor do crimalize homosexualy.
But any posive pictn of a homosexual liftyle to those unr 18 is now a crime the untry. Some LGBT-themed films have screened at Rsian ftivals sce the legislatn was adopted but screengs have often been dispted by anti-gay prottors.