It has been almost a sce the reprsive laws on “foreign agents” (2012) and “gay propaganda” (2013) were adopted. At the time of their adoptn, fenrs of the rights of LGBTI+ people were at the foreont of Rsia’s human rights movement and beme one of the first targets of state persecutn. Wh the crease
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- RSIA IS REPORTEDLY INVTIGATG AN ALLEGED GAY PURGE CHECHNYA
- ‘THEY STARVE YOU. THEY SHOCK YOU’: INSI THE ANTI-GAY POGROM CHECHNYA
RSIA IS REPORTEDLY INVTIGATG AN ALLEGED GAY PURGE CHECHNYA
* russia gay persecution *
It has been almost a sce the reprsive laws on “foreign agents” (2012) and “gay propaganda” (2013) were adopted.
‘THEY STARVE YOU. THEY SHOCK YOU’: INSI THE ANTI-GAY POGROM CHECHNYA
Sce 2013, Rsia's so-lled gay propaganda law has been ed to harass LGBT people, activists, and anizatns. Now, parliament is preparg an even harsher versn, and the LGBT muny is warng of loomg persecutns and vlence. * russia gay persecution *
Wh the crease polil reprsns me an crease homophobia propagated by the thori. In 2013, as preparatns for the “gay propaganda” law were unrway, Levada Center soclogist Aleksey Levison wrote the followg about the rults of a poll that intified a high level of homophobia Rsian society:.
Homophobia always go hand hand wh fascism.