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.

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

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. 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. “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 .

WHY RSIA IS SO ANTI-GAY

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. ” 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. 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.

RSIA NOT ONLY COUNTRY WH ANTI-GAY LAWS

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. Olenichev said that though the police do not track hate crim agast queer people, he and his lleagu have noticed an crease clients who have suffered inty-based attacks sce rhetoric behd anti-gay laws may have dangero nsequenc for gay Rsians, said Vladimir Komov, a lawyer wh the group Delo 2013 law was promoted as protectg children, while the new on “seek to prohib gay propaganda as a danger to the state system, ” fg as extremism, he Lunchenkov said the proposed laws uld leave gay people “aaid to go to medil clics to get treatment or ttg” for sexually transmted diseas. (Mosw) – A draft bill before Rsia’s parliament would signifintly affect the rights of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people, Human Rights Watch said today.

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

We ll on the Rsian thori to cease targetg the largt and most proment LGBTI rights group Rsia and foster a normal workg environment for activists for the rights of lbian, gay, bisexual, tersex and transgenr people the untry. Usg rogatory and offensive language towards the LGBTI muny, a program by the ernmental broadster Vti lled the Rsian LGBT Network a “web of gay-propaganda, ” suggtg that the Network “feeble-md youth” to reach s “propaganda” goals.

We urge Rsian thori to put an end to their stctive mpaign aga leadg LGBTI rights activists the untry, repeal the “gay propaganda” law and the “foreign agents” legislatn, and enable LGBTI rights and all human rights groups, to do their work unhred. Rsia’s lg party’s most recent mpaign to ban “polyamory and bisexualy propaganda” is part of an ongog attempt to enact homophobic polici and prerve what the Kreml nsirs “tradnal valu.

” Along wh the recent natnal referendum that clud a nstutnal ban on same-sex marriage, this mpaign, creasgly nservative and exprsly anti-LGBT+ rhetoric, reprents state-sponsored “policized homophobia” that unrme and repackage the prcipl of mocracy and human rights, as well as how those ncepts are terpreted by policymakers, Rsia and beyond.