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

Contents:

• FANS REVOLT AFTER GAY TV CHARACTER KILLED OFF
• 'WE'RE NOT HIDG': GAY AND LBIAN RSIANS SAY A CULTURAL SHIFT IS UNRWAY

FANS REVOLT AFTER GAY TV CHARACTER KILLED OFF

WARNING: CONTAINS PLOT SPOILERSWhen a gay character on a popular TV show was killed off, fans orchtrated an enormo onle mpaign. Fans acced the programme makers of regrsg to an earlier era entertament, when a gay character's sexualy often guaranteed they would e to a tragic end on the source, Twter/@MaryneeLahaye"LGBT fans serve better bee after some time starts beg hard to see ourselv die/never get a happy endg, " one fan tweeted. Fans promoted a fundraisg drive for a suici preventn chary, The Trevor Project, which is aimed at LGBT (lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and qutng) youth.

When they are prent on screen, LGBTQ+ characters are often villaized, killed, or subjected to vlence and/or other negative trop meant to teach a moral lson: that beg lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, or any other non-heterosexual or cissexual inty is not okay. We acknowledge that the Bury Your Gays trope is harmful to the greater LGBTQ muny, pecially to queer youth. Yet stead of nng om her mistake, Whe released a statement acknowledgg how The Catch played to the “Bury Your Gays” trope — and ced the pledge as a way forward.

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

I had only bee aware of the whole “bury your gays” trope when I saw my ar iend Noelle Carbone’s [lbian TV wrer currently workg on Rookie Blue] posts on Facebook. Petersburg, has also distguished self as most tolerant of the LGBT muny, acrdg to the rults of a recent banned “homosexual propaganda” among mors 2013, leadg the urts to ban gay pri events and public pollg show surgg anti-LGBT sentiment. In recent weeks, thori the North Cs republic of Chechnya have aga been acced of illegally tag and killg gay men and Petersburg me first place among 20 Rsian ci whose rints are the most gay-iendly, acrdg to the Zoom Market agency’s rearch published Saturday.

Novosibirsk and Mosw placed send and third, followed by Voronezh, Krasnodar and the oppose end of the rankg, the marketg agency named Saratov, Chelyabsk and Kazan as the three least tolerant Rsian ci toward LGBT Market surveyed 2, 400 rponnts om 20 Rsian ci on how they feel about sexual mori and whether any of their iends are gay.