Rsia's 'anti-gay' law ph gay muny to shadows | CNN

Contents:

• POLO RAVAL MT PROVE HE’S NO LONGER GAY TO SAVE HIS MARRIAGE ON “IPAGLABAN MO”
• POLO RAVAL ADMS BEG URTED BY GAYS, GETTG CENT OFFERS
• POLO RAVAL TOPBILLS GAY-THEMED EPISO OF ‘IPAGLABAN MO’
• POLO RAVAL AND JOSEPH BANGL AS GAY LOVERS ‘WALANG KAWALA’
• POLO RAVAL PLAYS 'ULTIMATE GAY ROLE' "WALANG KAWALA"
• NO WAY OUT
• RSIA’S ‘ANTI-GAY’ LAW PH GAY MUNY TO SHADOWS
• FROM RSIA WH LOVE: PHOTOS OF BRAVE GAY ACTIVISTS FIGHTG HOMOPHOBIA

POLO RAVAL MT PROVE HE’S NO LONGER GAY TO SAVE HIS MARRIAGE ON “IPAGLABAN MO”

Polo Raval plays a man who is termed to save his marriage by all means, cludg renouncg his homosexualy, on this Saturday’s (Febary 23) “Ipaglaban Mo. The return of a iend om his gay past threatens Ian’s (Polo) happy life wh his wife Lisa (Roxanne Barcelo), and their dghter. This Lisa to bee spic that Ian has not tly turned away om beg gay, which leads to her filg for an annulment.

POLO RAVAL ADMS BEG URTED BY GAYS, GETTG CENT OFFERS

ACTOR Polo Raval has revealed that he has been urted by gays and even received cent proposals om them. When asked why he would reject gay proposals, Raval said: “Msan kasi nakakatakot eh. Umalis ako, kasama ko ‘yung iend ko na gay.

“Gay ako do. "Walang Kawala" (No Way Out) is a gay-themed movie by multi-award director Joel Lamangan and uld be the Philippe's answer to the Osr-wng "Brokeback Mounta" and "Pulp Fictn. Synopsis: Joaqu (Polo Raval), an unassumg fisherman, is forced to nont his homosexualy when his sex-starved wife Cynthia (Althea Vega) returns om her overseas job eager to get pregnant.

His search tak him on a seamy yet lorful trip through Manila’s gay unrbelly.

POLO RAVAL TOPBILLS GAY-THEMED EPISO OF ‘IPAGLABAN MO’

WK is, of urse, Walang Kawala, that penntly-produced gay-themed movie directed by award-wng director Joel Lamangan. It is a gay story of “te love, rape and revenge” acrdg to the makers of the movie. Joaqu (Polo Raval), an unassumg fisherman, is forced to nont his homosexualy when his sex-starved wife Cynthia (Althea Vega) returns om her overseas job eager to get pregnant.

His search tak him on a seamy yet lorful trip through Manila's gay unrbelly. Active, Passive, and Rsian: The Natnal Ia Gay Men's Pornography on JSTOR. Fear ris Rsia's gay muny.

He is now losg bs and blam on a Rsian law banng gay "propaganda". Most of Mosw's gay populatn liv secret and cy has few gay clubs. "Don't ask, don't tell" is the unspoken le outsi Mosw's gay "ghetto, " says one man.

POLO RAVAL AND JOSEPH BANGL AS GAY LOVERS ‘WALANG KAWALA’

But after he and his partner Sergey Ostrikov were attacked outsi Mosw, and pecially sce a bill banng gay “propaganda” was passed June, Petel has feared for his safety. He is losg bs – and blam that on the law and an creasgly ls tolerant climate towards homosexualy. “People the regns are very aggrsive towards gays.

And recently, “I was workg on my vio when I turned on the TV and saw vio of one anchor of a Rsian channel who said that you need to burn the gays’ hearts, ” he told CNN. ” Ined he don’t even fe himself as a gay man at all. “I’ve never actually thought about myself beg a gay or a straight or anythg else.

It bars discsn of gay rights and relatnships wh earshot of children. Internatnal rights groups have lled the legislatn highly discrimatory, as anti-gay attacks are on the rise Rsia and are sometim perpetrated by the police themselv. The gay rights group, All Out, has livered a petn wh hundreds of thoands of signatur nouncg Rsia’s stance on gay rights.

POLO RAVAL PLAYS 'ULTIMATE GAY ROLE' "WALANG KAWALA"

Such a move uld e a backlash agast homosexuals, he fears. “It may even be signed agast the gay muny of Rsia to turn everyone agast them. Bee people will say that ’s gays who sabotaged and boytted the Olympics and people will jt burn wh our hearts.

OPINION: Make Olympics Rsia “the gayt ever”. Mosw, a cy of more than 11 ln people, has only a handful of gay night clubs, none of which would allow CNN’s meras si. Viktor Michaelson says most of Mosw’s gay populatn has always lived secret – and that they now have even greater reason to embrace anonymy.

The gay scene here is often referred to as a ghetto. Michaelson says: “[Gay people] aren’t imposed to stay the ghetto but they feel more fortable bee they n be themselv. What do the future hold then for gays Rsia?

NO WAY OUT

Petel unrstands why acceptance the untry has e slowly, but says: “Rsia would benef om appreciatg gays the same way that Indians appreciate their ws. To me, gays are ually kd, talented, genial, creative and I feel sorry that they’re leavg. Maybe we’ll see the first Rsian gay print 10 years.

RSIA’S ‘ANTI-GAY’ LAW PH GAY MUNY TO SHADOWS

The bill was unrstood to prohib all open exprsn of gay inty, om paras and rabow flags to same-sex upl holdg hands public.

The new law, which has drawn worldwi cricism and spired lls to boytt the 2014 Wter Olympics Sochi, further dified Rsia’s wispread homophobia: 12 ci, cludg St. Last year, Mosw enacted a century-long ban on gay-pri events.

Sce the gay-propaganda law passed, activists have noted a sharp uptick anti-gay vlence.

FROM RSIA WH LOVE: PHOTOS OF BRAVE GAY ACTIVISTS FIGHTG HOMOPHOBIA

(Anti-gay activists have attempted to filtrate Rsia’s LGBT muny. At one gay-pri rally, Nissen wnsed a btal attack on Kirill Fedorov, a young gay man and activist he’d been followg for several days.

“An anti-gay activist jt me up to him and punched him the face, ” Nissen rells. Ultra-natnalists, wearg Cossack-style hats and holdg whips, shout abe at participants a gay-pri rally June 2013 St.

Anti-gay protters later vlently asslted some of the people takg part the rally. Attacks on the gay muny have bee the norm: Sce the law’s passage, Mosw’s ma gay club, Central Statn, has seen at least five attacks—cludg a shootg, a poison gas attack, and a raid which equipment was stolen and the roof was damaged.