Viktor Pylypenko has bee a role mol for dozens of LGBT+ Ukraian war veterans and their supporters sce he anised their participatn two years ago Kyiv's largt ever gay pri march.
Contents:
- RSIAN SOLDIERS ACCED OF TARGETED ANTI-GAY ATTACKS UKRAE
- WHY RSIA IS SO ANTI-GAY
- 'GAY TATTOO' CHECK FOR RSIAN ARY RECS KREML'S LATT CLAMPDOWN ON HOMOSEXUALY
- GAY WAR VETERAN SPEAKS OUT FOR EQUAL RIGHTS UKRAE'S ARY
RSIAN SOLDIERS ACCED OF TARGETED ANTI-GAY ATTACKS UKRAE
Close to 75 percent of Rsians say beg gay is morally unacceptable, a new survey fds. * gays in russian military *
The European Court of Human Rights led 2017 that the 2013 law is discrimatory, promot homophobia and vlat the European Conventn on Human Rights.
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. Homosexualy was crimalized Rsia 1993, but homophobia and discrimatn is still rife.
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. As an unspectg dience looked on, the men hoisted a shirtls lleague above their heads, placed a ncrete block on his stomach that suggted gay people should be killed, and proceed to smash the symbolic object wh what appeared to be a sledgehammer. Not the head of the paratrooper club, who, judgg by his remarks afterward, saw nothg wrong wh the homophobic display.
WHY RSIA IS SO ANTI-GAY
Legislatn beg phed by the Kreml and the Rsian Orthodox Church would clu a ban on holdg public events (such as the one pictured) that promote gay rights. * gays in russian military *
They jt don't like" gay people, Andrei Palachev later was quoted as tellg reporters, g an offensive slur for gays. Homophobia, Intolerance On The Rise?
'GAY TATTOO' CHECK FOR RSIAN ARY RECS KREML'S LATT CLAMPDOWN ON HOMOSEXUALY
* gays in russian military *
The performance Yaroslavl is jt the latt example of risg homophobia and tolerance toward mory groups Rsia, a trend that appears to be worseng part bee of seemg official difference to such displays. Homosexualy was crimalized Rsia the 1990s, but LGBT people have faced varyg gre of discrimatn over the years.
GAY WAR VETERAN SPEAKS OUT FOR EQUAL RIGHTS UKRAE'S ARY
Rights fenrs say bias has been enuraged by a law targetg "gay propaganda, " which Print Vladimir Put signed 2013. Sce then, LGBT-rights mpaigners and hate-crime rearchers have reported a notable uptick vlence and harassment agast gays and lbians, often om nservative activists or those pog Orthodox Christian beliefs. But the cha later pulled the ad after beg attacked by nservative activists, some of whom ced the "gay propaganda" law.