What To Know About Rsia’s So-Called ‘Gay Propaganda’ Bill | Time

Contents:

• FIRST RSIA, THEN HUNGARY, NOW ROMANIA IS CONSIRG A 'GAY PROPAGANDA' LAW 
• WHAT DO GAY PROPAGANDA LOOK LIKE TO YOU?
• GAY MARRIAGE. PROOF PROPAGANDA WORKS
• SPREADG GAY MARRIAGE PROPAGANDA
• WHY RSIA IS SO ANTI-GAY
• HOW SOCHI BEME THE GAY OLYMPICS
• 18 ANTI-GAY GROUPS AND THEIR PROPAGANDA
• NEWSWEEK’S GAY MARRIAGE PROPAGANDA PIECE
• WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT RSIA’S SO-CALLED ‘GAY PROPAGANDA’ BILL

FIRST RSIA, THEN HUNGARY, NOW ROMANIA IS CONSIRG A 'GAY PROPAGANDA' LAW 

BUCHAREST -- Romania is nsirg a bill that would ban mors om beg exposed to so-lled "gay propaganda" schools and public life, spe warngs om rights groups that would "fuel Rsian propaganda and disrmatn mpaigns" and restate censorship the former munist untry.

"If a child is on the street and se a Pri march, or if he or she se a story about gay issu on televisn, or watch a film approved by the Romanian thori that has LGBT issu, " the would all be illegal unr the law, Ion-Rotar said. One article of the proposed law says that a child "has the right to be protected agast the spreadg of ntent through any means about the viatn om sex which is tablished at birth (by a doctor) or the popularizatn of sex change or homosexualy.

In Romania, marriage and civil partnerships for same-sex upl are already banned, but supporters of the referendum hoped that by changg the wordg of the nstutn to say that marriage uld only be between a man and a woman rather than "partners, " as currently stands, they would prevent gay marriage om ever beg enshred law.

WHAT DO GAY PROPAGANDA LOOK LIKE TO YOU?

" Cred: "Anyone out there n nnect an image, a story, a vio, a piece of their life that they exprs on social media wh that hashtag and tell a sort of global story of what gay propaganda is that isn’t based fear and anger and vlence and a really backwards notn of love and relatnships, ” #GayPropaganda's Joe Babarsky says.

Released Nov 21, “The Scream” is one of a seri of vio-based public service announcements produced by the (We Are) #GayPropaganda mpaign that Babarsky, Pt, Kev Dolan and other like-md social-media-savvy profsnals are spearheadg a bid to build a ee-form, global aln-by-hashtag. Lookg at the reach of the law, and Rsian thori’ abily to voke to try to silence those who speak out fence of gay rights and relatnships, Babarsky says he realized that almost every teractn his everyday life uld be nsired an act of gay propaganda.

Anyone out there n nnect an image, a story, a vio, a piece of their life that they exprs on social media wh that hashtag and tell a sort of global story of what gay propaganda is that isn’t based fear and anger and vlence and a really backwards notn of love and relatnships, ” Babarsky says.

GAY MARRIAGE. PROOF PROPAGANDA WORKS

Whatever story people have to tell, whether ’s about beg upset and wantg to make their voice heard, or whether ’s about showg gay people around the world who are persecuted, facg vlence or feel that they don’t have hope, the many plac the world where people stand solidary wh their immediate suatn.

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.

SPREADG GAY MARRIAGE PROPAGANDA

Nearly three-quarters of Rsians believe that homosexually is morally unacceptable, more than disapprove of other hot-button issu such as extramaral affairs, gamblg and numbers e om newly released data om the Pew Rearch Center, which surveyed Rsians on their moral attus sprg 2013. Jt eight months before the gam, Rsia's ernmental body, the Duma, passed a law makg illegal to distribute homosexual "propaganda" to mors, which clus stagg gay pri events and advotg for gay law also bans foreign same-sex upl om adoptg Rsian the openg day of the Olympics (Feb. [5 Myths About Gay People Debunked]History of anti-gay attusUnrstandg Rsia's wispread gay sentiment requir a look back, said Tatiana Mikhailova, a senr stctor of Rsian Studi at the Universy of Colorado, Boulr.

WHY RSIA IS SO ANTI-GAY

"Where gays are allowed, pedophilia will soon flourish, " says Rsian Orthodox prit Sergei Rybko a new BBC documentary, "Hunted, " released this month, that explor vlence toward Rsian Rsian Orthodox Church is a major driver of anti-gay public opn, Mikhailova said, but there is a paradox at most untri, religsy is lked to anti-gay attus. Another 9 percent say homosexualy is not a moral issue, and 72 percent say beg gay is parison, 69 percent of Rsians say extramaral affairs are unacceptable, 62 percent disapprove of gamblg, and 44 percent say abortn is immoral.

HOW SOCHI BEME THE GAY OLYMPICS

3, a urt eastern Rsia sentenced three men to between ne and 12 years prison each for the beatg and stabbg ath of a man they believed to be gay, one of several recently reported crim allegedly motivated by anti-gay sentiment. The Stonewall rts were more than a the past; a year earlier, reports had surfaced about rare pnmonia and ncer afflictg homosexuals New York and California—the first glimmers of what would later be lled AIDS.

18 ANTI-GAY GROUPS AND THEIR PROPAGANDA

” “Direct ntact” wh athlet om the natns, Day argued, would be enlighteng for Amerins livg a untry where ternatnal visors were often nied entry bee of their sexual s later, sports are once aga stirrg to take stock of gay rights around the world.

NEWSWEEK’S GAY MARRIAGE PROPAGANDA PIECE

Ultimately, the stlit Olympics history may be remembered for markg a perd which gay rights aren’t so much advancg globally as expandg certa parts of the world while regrsg or languishg 6, 000 athlet om 85 untri gather Sochi, the global gay-rights divi will be unmistakable. But gay rights only me to the fore the summer of 2013, when the Rsian ernment, which crimalized homosexualy 1993, banned the dissematn of “propaganda of nontradnal sexual relatns” around children—makg more difficult for gay activists to operate and, rights groups allege, fuelg a rise anti-gay vlence the untry.

WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT RSIA’S SO-CALLED ‘GAY PROPAGANDA’ BILL

The mayor of Sochi sayg there were no gay people his cy didn’t help, perhaps the most provotive rebe to Rsia’s lims on LGBT rights, Print Obama has clud three openly gay athlet—Billie Jean Kg, Cal Cahow, and Brian Boano— the U.

Gay Olympic athlet have exprsed outrage as well; the Atralian snowboarr Belle Brockhoff, for stance, has vowed to “rip on [Put’s] ass” after petg and possibly flash an oblique six-fger salute reference to “Prciple Six, ” an anti-discrimatn clse the Olympic Charter. Then there’s the solutn proposed by Saturday Night Live: an all-heterosexual Team USA figure-skatg squad:The laws agast homosexualy that have recently ma ternatnal headl aren’t necsarily new, Stern says, but they are “gettg more attentn today bee of the level of progrs that we’ve seen other parts of the world. In recent months, India’s Supreme Court has restated a ban on gay sex ( one fell swoop doublg, by one timate, the number of gay people the world who n be imprisoned for their sexualy) and Atralia’s High Court has overturned gay-marriage legislatn.