'We're not hidg': Gay and lbian Rsians say a cultural shift is unrway

Contents:

• 'WE'RE NOT HIDG': GAY AND LBIAN RSIANS SAY A CULTURAL SHIFT IS UNRWAY
• THE 5 BEST MOSW GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS MOSW
• GAYS RSIA FD NO HAVEN, DPE SUPPORT FROM THE WT
• 1 5 RSIANS WANT GAYS AND LBIANS 'ELIMATED,' SURVEY FDS
• ‘I’M AAID FOR MY FUTURE’: PROPOSED LAWS THREATEN GAY LIFE RSIA
• THE 5 BEST MOSW GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS MOSW
• MOSW GAY SNAS
• RSIA TO GAYS: SHUT UP AND DISAPPEAR

'WE'RE NOT HIDG': GAY AND LBIAN RSIANS SAY A CULTURAL SHIFT IS UNRWAY

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.

Good lotn: cy centre, another gay club (911) the nearby area and a gay iendly hostel next to stay (Inga Hotels).

THE 5 BEST MOSW GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS MOSW

In December 2022, Rsia expand s existg “gay propaganda” law to exert ntrol over public discsns and narrativ surroundg non-heterosexual relatnships and inti.

In a sea of nned cktails, Gay Water wants to stand out. In other words, where Bud Light has buckled unr prsure as bigotry grows agast the LGBTQ+ muny, Gay Water’s creator Spencer Hodson wants his new boozy brand to be the anthis of that. “The key issue that Bud Light tapped to was the fact that they didn’t unrstand their re dience and know enough about them,” Hodson, a gay man, told CNN about the ntroversy that began when the Anhser-Bch beer brand sent fluencer Dylan Mulvaney a n of beer.

GAYS RSIA FD NO HAVEN, DPE SUPPORT FROM THE WT

Gay Water, however, is out and proud. The nned cktail is named after a lloquialism given to the popular mixed drk (vodka and soda) orred at bars by the gay muny.

“Puttg a product wh the word gay the tle is reprentatn self,” which he hop reclaims the word om the negativy ’s sometim associated wh. He thought of creatg Gay Water about a year ago while on a vatn wh his iend that had got a job wh the beverage dtry. The two chatted about the limed amount of gay people wh , and wh Hodson burnt out om his tradnal day job tech, started the nned cktail.

Hodson built up a strong social media followg on TikTok and Instagram durg Covid-19 and is g some of the money om that (as well as om iends and fay) to help fund Gay Water.

1 5 RSIANS WANT GAYS AND LBIANS 'ELIMATED,' SURVEY FDS

“Gay is an umbrella term and the ia behd the brand is to be as clive as possible, which means we want alli, we want straight people to be part of this muny we’re buildg.”. For now, Gay Water is sold largely onle (wh a few retailers) and four sugar-ee flavors — watermelon, lime, peach and grapeu — at lnch. Gay Water might not have the ep pockets pared to s petors, like Whe Claw, but “even at small sle, pani of many siz are havg succs makg spir-based seltzers and premixed cktails,” Bryan Roth, an analyst for Feel Goods Company and edor of the alhol beverage newsletter, Sightl+, told CNN.

“There’s lots of space the spir-based seltzer tegory which Gay Water n play, pecially if the brand n offer a cultural or emotnal nnectn that will feel more excg than the prospect of another peapple-flavored vodka seltzer om natnal or ternatnal rporatns,” Roth said.

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

Of urse, other drks e the word “gay,” too, cludg Gay Beer and So Gay Rosé, Hodson noted, which are also tryg to reach the queer muny and offer them an alternative the straight-domated space. In December 2022, Rsian Print Vladimir Put signed a law that signifintly expand rtrictns on activi seen as promotg LGBTQ+ rights the untry, buildg on a law that had been place sce 2013 and that pennt rearchers say led to a surge vlence agast sexual recently, the Kreml has even amed the Febary 2022 vasn of Ukrae partly as a way to fend nservative valu agast Wtern promotn of gay and transgenr rights.

After several uls months, they cid to move to Argenta “feels so safe for me here, ” Boyarsky said, notg that he has yet to tell his children that he’s trans bee “ felt too dangero for them” to know that back home nsirg there’s a general belief that “there are no gays Rsia.

“Tango, Che Guevera, and that was a Spanish lony, ” joked Nikolai Shhpan, a 26-year-old gay man who moved to Argenta’s pal October when he started fearg he uld be drafted to the war.

THE 5 BEST MOSW GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS MOSW

Authori have creased ntrols on Rsian migrants recently after the arrt of two alleged Rsian spi wh Argente passports Slovenia late last now, Shpan is enjoyg livg openly as a gay man for the first time. An NHL team wh a Rsian player has cid agast wearg special warmup jerseys to memorate Pri night, cg an anti-gay Kreml law.

A story for children about fai wh same-sex parents has been published Rsia as part of a mpaign to have the untry’s ‘gay propaganda’ law repealed. Nearly 1 5 Rsians want to “elimate” gay and lbian people om society, acrdg to a new survey, a fdg that has ced fear and anger among LGBTQ activists the untry.

”The survey, published this week by the Levada Center, a nonernmental rearch anizatn based Mosw, also found that 32 percent of rponnts wanted to “isolate” gay men and lbians om society, pared to 9 percent who wanted to “assist” them. "A lot of people Rsia would not want to see gay people existg... ”“A lot of people Rsia would not want to see gay people existg, ” said Kocherga.

MOSW GAY SNAS

Unr the legislatn, also known as the “gay propaganda law, ” any act or event that thori em to promote homosexualy to children is punishable by a fe.

Over the past several years, there have also been a number of disturbg reports of state-sponsored tentn, vlence and torture agast gay and bisexual men Chechnya, a semitonomo Rsian regn“The state giv the signal that LGBT people are not real people, that they are send- or even third-class cizens, ” Zakharova said. ”Dpe reports of creased vlence and the enactment of the “gay propaganda law, ” Kocherga said the suatn has improved over the past three s, when the Soviet Man project first started.

RSIA TO GAYS: SHUT UP AND DISAPPEAR

“Thgs om a polil pot of view have bee worse, but still somehow Rsian nscns tri to be better, ” she said, notg that 1989, the survey’s first year, 35 percent of those polled wanted to “elimate” gays and lbians, pared to 18 percent the latt fdgs. “It’s nice to see that actually the willgns to see homosexuals, to accept them, is actually risg, ” Kocherga poted to a separate survey released by the Levada Center last year that found Rsian attus toward LGBTQ people — while still predomantly negative — have improved, pecially among young, ted women.