'Our mere existence is illegal.' As Mosw toughens anti-gay law, LGBTQ Rsians fear for the future | CNN

Contents:

• YOUNG AND GAY PUT'S RSIA
• MEET THE GAY RSIAN TEENAGER USG TWTER TO COMBAT HOMOPHOBIA
• IN LGBT+ RIGHTS VICTORY, RSIAN TEEN WS 'GAY PROPAGANDA' SE
• A YOUNG, GAY RSIAN JEW NAVIGAT ’80S NEW YORK ‘MYAN,’ A NEW FILM SET BRIGHTON BEACH
• ‘I’M AAID FOR MY FUTURE’: PROPOSED LAWS THREATEN GAY LIFE RSIA
• WHO CONTROLS A GAY RSIAN TEEN-AGER’S STORY?
• RSIA: YOUNG, RSIAN, GAY, AND PRO-PUT
• ‘OUR MERE EXISTENCE IS ILLEGAL.’ AS MOSW TOUGHENS ANTI-GAY LAW, LGBTQ RSIANS FEAR FOR THE FUTURE
• GAY RSIAN TEENS MUNITE SECRET TO AVOID LAW ON 'PROPAGANDA'

YOUNG AND GAY PUT'S RSIA

- The world's first fe art photography magaze dited to queer and gay 2 - the Pri Issue featur ten photographers om ne untri: AY (UK), David Charl Colls (Atralia), Matthew Fley (USA), Ashish Gupta (India), Manuel Monyo (Mexi), Juan Anton Papagni Me (Argenta), Sebastian Perotti (Argenta), Mric A. Art platform to promote queer and gay photography.

It now reprents more than 67 photographers om 27 untri - cludg Cha, India, Iran, Poland, Rsia and Turkey where gay rights are reprsed and queer liv unr nstant have been onle and physil exhibns, and two sold out BOYS! Said:"Dpe the panmic we managed to lnch a new pennt magaze dited to queer and gay photography.

It jt go to show that there is a market for a well-produced prt magaze showsg fe art photography by queer and gay photographers that is not jt a dick magaze! MOSCOW (Thomson Rters Foundatn) - In an unexpected victory for gay rights, the first mor to be charged Rsia for promotg homosexualy won a urt appeal on Friday fense of his right to post photos on social media of men Neverov was fed 50, 000 bl ($760) Augt after a missn on juvenile affairs found him guilty of “promotg non-tradnal sexual relatnship among mors” had posted onle photos of shirtls men openly huggg a natn where gays face legal challeng and risk wispread an appeal the cy urt of Biysk and several heargs, a judge found there was not enough evince to tablish Neverov’s guilt and overturned the fe.

MEET THE GAY RSIAN TEENAGER USG TWTER TO COMBAT HOMOPHOBIA

Neverov was the first mor - age 18 or unr Rsia - to be fed unr the law, which mak illegal any event or act regard by thori as an attempt to promote homosexualy to has been ed to stop gay pri march and to ta gay rights activists. Neverov’s lawyer Artyom Lapov, a member of the gay rights group Rsian LGBT Network, said the lg is “a signal to the LGBT muny that they n, and should, fight for their rights.

Rsian urts rarely acqu people acced of “gay propaganda”, Network spokwoman Svetlana Zakharova told the Thomson Rters Foundatn.

“This se shows that the jtice system is aware that the implementatn of the [gay propaganda] law often go too far.

IN LGBT+ RIGHTS VICTORY, RSIAN TEEN WS 'GAY PROPAGANDA' SE

Homosexualy was a crimal offense Rsia until 1993 and classed as a mental illns until year, the European Court of Human Rights led that the Rsian gay propaganda law breached European treaty l, vlated the right to eedom of exprsn and discrimated agast LGBT people - a lg Mosw lled.

(JTA) — A gay Rsian Jewish teenager of age Brighton Beach the touchg new pennt film “Myan, ” a subtle and sensive drama that tells an unexpected story about the Brooklyn neighborhood’s large immigrant Jewish muny. Soon after meetg them, David begs to explore a lol gay bar, and los his virgy to a broodg bartenr (Alex Hurt) who, at the height of the AIDS epimic, seems shocked by his new lover’s youth and ignorance of the disease — and how David, havg already avoid one life of misery at the grace of his parents, is unaware he may now be doomg himself to another. ” But Steel himself grew up gay and Jewish the 1980s, and he’s smartly fed Bezmozgis’ source material wh his own memori to create a film wh a personal touch.

A YOUNG, GAY RSIAN JEW NAVIGAT ’80S NEW YORK ‘MYAN,’ A NEW FILM SET BRIGHTON BEACH

The movie even feels league wh works by Ira Sachs and Andrew Haigh, the reigng kgs of layered, nuanced stori about gay muni, while also beg eply Jewish. They were tryg to ply wh a 2013 Rsian law that bans exposg mors to anythg that uld be nsired “gay propaganda.

”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.

‘I’M AAID FOR MY FUTURE’: PROPOSED LAWS THREATEN GAY LIFE RSIA

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.

It prents a ntemporary llectn of queer and gay photography, full of variety, power, and tensy. It featur more than 50 queer and gay photographers om more than 20 untri. It cis wh the lnch of new onle art platform -- the home of queer and gay photography.

WHO CONTROLS A GAY RSIAN TEEN-AGER’S STORY?

At a lol church, he met a gay uple, two elrly ary veterans who were raisg two adopted boys. They promised to shelter him, to fix him up wh a uple of gay lawyers who would handle his asylum se, and even, acrdg to the Rsian prs acunts, to pay for him to attend Harvard.

Thori would perm her to meet wh him only the prence of Rsian nsular officials and the boy’s gay lawyers. The boy had met a gay uple through a lol L.

The Rsians, the lawyers told me, ma clear that beg homosexual—which they believed the boy had bee unr the fluence of Amerins—did not f their fn of “well. He has moved out of the group home and wh the gay uple om the Kalamazoo L.

RSIA: YOUNG, RSIAN, GAY, AND PRO-PUT

” The lead paragraph of the Washgton Post’s article ced a “former participant’s cisn to stay wh a gay uple”—an assertn that the paper repeated the followg day an eloquent edorial on Rsian homophobia, xenophobia, and rptn. A story the Tim stated that the program was ncelled “after a teenage Rsian boy who beiend a gay uple sought asylum the Uned Stat.

‘OUR MERE EXISTENCE IS ILLEGAL.’ AS MOSW TOUGHENS ANTI-GAY LAW, LGBTQ RSIANS FEAR FOR THE FUTURE

When Vladimir Put’s anti-gay legislatn ma headl around the world, his regime beme synonymo wh homophobia and the stggle for gay rights Rsia. I am personally agast gay paras and I don’t want to propagandize. A regular L-Word attene, Yulia Astakhova, plaed that she don’t feel ee Mosw due to the recent homophobic legislatn and society’s endurg prejudice that regards homosexualy as “unnatural.

Ined, some members of Rsia’s LGBTQ muny view Pri events, paras and gay activism as a potential trigger which uld ultimately brg about a dangero backlash. In Rsia, there is also a lack of hn between gay rights and the mastay liberal, opposn movement. Eher such figur — policians, activists and journalists alike — are prone to homophobic prejudice themselv, or avoid touchg LGBTQ issu for fear of beg prosecuted unr the propaganda law.

GAY RSIAN TEENS MUNITE SECRET TO AVOID LAW ON 'PROPAGANDA'

The Amerin gay rights movement also experienced self-cricism and ternal divisns over the tactics and goals of the mpaign to legalize same-sex marriage. In the US, gay rights anizatns have sometim sparked phback om some Ain-Amerin civil rights lears who argued a gay rights polil agenda had unfairly opted the natnal nversatn on equal rights. But they fear a harsh new anti-gay law passed by Rsian lawmakers will leave them ltle choice.

As the Kreml prepared to falize the expansn of the 2013 discrimatory anti-gay law, members of the LGBTQ muny Rsia told CNN they feared the uncerta future ahead. The measur clu g private acunts on social media, havg accs to a work of tsted people, sendg their son to a private krgarten where the fact a kid has two moms is ls likely to spark a homophobic reactn, and g a private hospal where they n ls risk of a doctor llg child protectn thori to make quiri about their fay set-up, they said. “As an thor of books that raise [the LGBTQ] topic, of urse, I am very ncerned about this, ” gay wrer Ksenia told CNN.