Gay rights activists across the world prott agast the Rsian ernment, as Sochi awas the arrival of the Olympic torch.
Contents:
- NO END TO CHECHNYA’S VLENT ANTI-GAY CAMPAIGN
- ‘I’M AAID FOR MY FUTURE’: PROPOSED LAWS THREATEN GAY LIFE RSIA
- SOCHI 2014: GAY RIGHTS PROTTS TARGET RSIA'S GAM
- US WHE SUPREMACISTS FOUND GUILTY OF GAY PRI RT PLOT
- EUROVISN'S SERGEY LAZAREV: GAY LIFE EXISTS RSIA
- WNS: BEATEN FOR BEG GAY RSIA -- ANDREY'S STORY
NO END TO CHECHNYA’S VLENT ANTI-GAY CAMPAIGN
The Rsian LGBT Network has reported that May 2021, Chechen-speakg men abducted Ibragim Selimkhanov Mosw and forcibly returned him to Chechnya’s pal Grozny, where thori terrogated him about gay people the regn.
In 2017 and 2019, Chechen thori orchtrated lethal purg of men perceived to be gay or bisexual.
In 2017, as reports of the purge surfaced, gay and bisexual men began pg Chechnya, knowg the dangers they faced. In September 2017, jt months after pg Chechnya and arrivg Canada, a Chechen gay man Toronto faced threats. The European Court of Human Rights led 2017 that the 2013 law is discrimatory, promot homophobia and vlat the European Conventn on Human Rights.
‘I’M AAID FOR MY FUTURE’: PROPOSED LAWS THREATEN GAY LIFE RSIA
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.
They were tryg to ply wh a 2013 Rsian law that bans exposg mors to anythg that uld be nsired “gay propaganda.
SOCHI 2014: GAY RIGHTS PROTTS TARGET RSIA'S GAM
”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. Aleksandr Khste, a puty om the lg Uned Rsia party and the lead thor of the new anti-gay bills, was even more blunt.
US WHE SUPREMACISTS FOUND GUILTY OF GAY PRI RT PLOT
Lunchenkov said that 2010, when he was school, he felt that he uld exprs his gay inty eely among his classmat. 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. ”Some gay Rsians doubt that the new laws will greatly affect them.
“I am more sred of beg drafted to fight the war than for beg arrted bee I am gay, ” said Andrei Melnikov, 19. Lawmakers llg gays a danger on a par wh war “is more funny than sry, ” he now, gay Rsians and their alli have found exprsn spe rtrictive laws.
A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 7 of the New York edn wh the headle: Life for Gay Rsians Is About to Get Worse.
EUROVISN'S SERGEY LAZAREV: GAY LIFE EXISTS RSIA
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. The 2013 “gay propaganda” law marked a signifint shift g legislatn to foster a sense of natnal inty at the expense of LGBT+ people’s fundamental rights. In realy, policized homophobia and the objectifitn of tradn not only aims to draw symbolic boundari between “Rsian culture” and the Wt, but also nstcts an enemy—LGBT+ people.
By enactg legislatn aimed at prervg "tradnal valu", cludg homophobic laws, the Rsian ernment has reposned self as a signifint iologil force the regn and around the world. For stance, after Rsia’s adoptn of the gay-propaganda law 2013, many post-Soviet untri’ parliaments nsired different eratns of a bill agast “homosexual propaganda. Rsia’s anti-LGBT+ polici are not maniftatns of herent Rsian homophobia, but rather the velopment of a polil strategy by Rsian policymakers.
WNS: BEATEN FOR BEG GAY RSIA -- ANDREY'S STORY
The implementatn of the “gay propaganda” law has rulted an crease anti- LGBT+ vlence and rtrictns on LGBT+ projects and iativ—om a ban on Pri events to the abily of LGBT+ anizatns to register the untry. The bt path forward lls for ternatnal actors to adhere to human-rights prcipl, mata polil prsure on the Rsian ernment, and support lol actors who work to rce homophobic rhetoric the public doma and crease the reprentatn of LGBT+ people. Media ptn, Watch: The torch arriv Sochi, where will spend three days ahead of the openg ceremonyGay rights activists across the world have been holdg a day of protts agast the Rsian ernment, jt two days before the Wter Olympics beg the southern rort of protts seek to persua sponsors of the event to speak out over Rsia's ntroversial laws on gay rights protts were anised 19 ci around the Olympic torch has arrived Sochi, havg vised 135 ci the 122 days sce leavg will spend three days and around Sochi before arrivg the Olympic stadium to light the Olympic uldron durg Friday's openg ceremony.
Activists want Olympic sponsors such as McDonald's, Co-Cola, Samsung and Visa to speak agast Rsia's new laws on ptn, Protters Jesalem chant: "No exc, homophobia is terror"Last year, Rsia banned the promotn of "non-tradnal" sexualy - wily seen as an attack on gay law mak providg rmatn on homosexualy to unr-18s a crime, punishable by a fe.
Crics say s loose terpretatn effectively stops gay rights protts Campbell, a director at the equaly mpaign group All Out, told the BBC that the new Rsian laws went agast the spir of the Olympics.