Rsia's Anti-Gay Law, Spelled Out Pla English

Contents:

• WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT RSIA’S SO-CALLED ‘GAY PROPAGANDA’ BILL
• ‘I’M AAID FOR MY FUTURE’: PROPOSED LAWS THREATEN GAY LIFE RSIA
• WHY RSIA IS SO ANTI-GAY
• RSIA NOT ONLY COUNTRY WH ANTI-GAY LAWS
• RSIA'S ANTI-GAY LAW, SPELLED OUT PLA ENGLISH

WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT RSIA’S SO-CALLED ‘GAY PROPAGANDA’ BILL

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.

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.

And particularly where that base of support is close to relig views, there is a lot of crossover there that works for polil opportunists who are g official forms of homophobia to fe their polil That is Dan Healey, profsor of Rsian history at the Universy of Oxford. Petersburg and Mosw have been marked by state vlence and arrts, while an crease the number of attacks on LGBTQ people throughout Rsia—both by dividuals and by anized homophobic groups—creased after the 2013 law, acrdg to a 2014 report published by Human Rights Watch. In 2017, the European Court of Human Rights led that Rsia’s “gay propaganda law” was discrimatory, promoted homophobia, and vlated the European Conventn on Human Rights and that “served no legimate public tert.

‘I’M AAID FOR MY FUTURE’: PROPOSED LAWS THREATEN GAY LIFE RSIA

Rsian thori should vtigate allegatns of a new wave of anti-lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) persecutn Chechnya and take steps to protect rights fenrs and journalists who expose ab there, Human Rights Watch said today.

The allegatns of a new round of homophobic persecutn and the threats agast Kochetkov e after Chechen thori had rried out a vic large-sle anti-gay purge sprg 2017, durg which lol police round up and tortured around 100 men they spected of beg gay. In November 2018, 16 participatg stat of the Organizatn for Secury and Co-Operatn Europe (OSCE) voked the anizatn’s “Mosw Mechanism, ” and appoted a rapportr to look to allegatns of ab Chechnya, cludg the anti-gay purge. Rsia should effectively vtigate the allegatns of new ab agast LGBT people by Chechen thori, liver acuntabily for the 2017 anti-gay purge, and ensure the safety of Kochetkov, his lleagu at Rsian LGBT Network, and other human rights fenrs and journalists who work at great personal risk to stop ab Chechnya.

WHY RSIA IS SO ANTI-GAY

“Agast the backdrop of this stark impuny for the horrific anti-gay purge of 2017, reports of a new wave of persecutn of LGBT people Chechnya are extremely disturbg, pecially the wake of the damng OSCE report, but not surprisg at all, ” Reid said. (New York) – Rsia’s anti-gay “propaganda” law has served as a tool for anti-gay discrimatn the year sce entered to force, even though Rsian thori have fed only four people for vlatg . The law’s adoptn also cid wh the spread of vlence and harassment of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people and LGBT rights activists and a rise homophobic hate speech by some Rsian officials and public figur, Human Rights Watch rearch found.

On December 3, 2013, a urt the northern Rsian cy of Arkhangelsk found that two Rsian LGBT rights activists, Nikolai Alexeyev and Yaroslav Yevthenko, had vlated the feral anti-LGBT “propaganda” law bee they stood next to a children’s library Arkhangelsk wh a sign that said, “There’s no such thg as gay propaganda, you don’t bee gay, you’re born gay. A Kazan urt fed Isakov 4, 000 bl ($120) bee on June 30, 2013, he held a one-mute picket on the cy’s central square, holdg a plard that said, “Beg gay and lovg gays is normal; beatg gays and killg gays is crimal.

RSIA NOT ONLY COUNTRY WH ANTI-GAY LAWS

” He said his brief prott had nothg to do wh propaganda: “I wanted to brg attentn to the vlence agast LGBT people by natnalist groups who equal gays wh pedophil, and to killgs of [gay] people. In September 2013, the newspaper had published an terview wh a gay teacher om Khabarovsk, Aleksanr Ermoshk, which he was quoted as sayg, “My own existence prov that homosexualy is normal.

Petersburg regnal law banng propaganda for homosexualy, had filed a plat claimg that Deti-404’s activi might nstute propaganda for “nontradnal sexual relatnships” vlatn of the feral law.

RSIA'S ANTI-GAY LAW, SPELLED OUT PLA ENGLISH

The group sent a letter that Ermoshk said had 700 signatur to the Khabarovsk regn partment of the Edutn Mistry llg for Ermoshk’s dismissal om his teachg job bee he is openly gay and a known LGBT activist Khabarovsk. Ermoshk told Human Rights Watch that the group had alleged that his prence the school uld vlate the feral anti-LGBT “propaganda” law bee he prented homosexualy and equaly for LGBT people a posive light. ”The anizers had good reason to be wary: Life has been challengg for gay Rsians sce the law passed, as the ernment has treated gay life as a Wtern import that is harmful to tradnal Rsian valu and Rsia’s Parliament is set to pass a legislative package that would ban all “gay propaganda, ” signalg an even more difficult perd ahead for a stigmatized segment of laws would prohib reprentatn of L.

Exprsn wh s ratnale for the war Ukrae, sistg that Rsia is fightg not jt Ukrae but all of NATO, a Wtern alliance that reprents a threat to the Put drove home that argument a speech last week, sayg that the Wt n have “dozens of genrs and gay pri paras, ” but that should not try to spread the “trends” elsewhere.