Inter mem mockg Rsian Print Vladimir Put have bee a mon weapon wield by his polil opponents. Now, thori have banned one altered image showg Put wearg makp that they say suggts he is gay and slurs his supporters.
Contents:
- RSIA BANS IMAGE 'HTG' THAT PUT IS GAY
- RSIAN PRINT VLADIMIR PUT IS 'LATENTLY GAY,' ALLEG CONTROVERSIAL NEW BGRAPHY
- MAN WHO CLAIMS 'PUT'S CHEF' IS GAY INV SKEPTICS TO MEET HIM
- PUT SHAR THOUGHTS ON SHOWERG WH GAY MEN AND MENSTAL CYCL
- RSIA'S VLADIMIR PUT 'IS GAY' CLAIMS NTROVERSIAL NEW BGRAPHY
- RSIAN COURT BANS IMAGE SUGGTG PUT IS GAY
RSIA BANS IMAGE 'HTG' THAT PUT IS GAY
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Sce 2013, when Rsia passed a “gay propaganda” ban argug that promotn of LGBT rights was harmful to children, the Kreml has ed statements about sexualy to signal that ’s aligned wh nservativ promotg a particular worldview of Rsia as distct om and better than the has been mixg the signals to balance petg terts sce he rose to powerWe recently analyzed two s of Put’s major annual speech. The first was a dismissal of “the rights of sexual mori” and nflatn of homosexualy wh “pedophilia. But publishg a retouched photograph of Put's face ma up drag -- suggtg he is gay -- uld now have ser nsequenc.
Rsia has officially banned a photoshopped image showg Put wearg heavy makp that thori say hts at his "alleged nonstandard sexual orientatn" and also appears to have clud a mon slur for gay men. The image was acpanied by a ptn that appeared to e a homophobic slur to pare Put's "voters" wh LGBT people, addg "they say there are a lot of them, but I don't know any. The pejorative was redacted the urt lg, but phrasg the ptn is nsistent wh an Inter meme that a slur agast gay people.
RSIAN PRINT VLADIMIR PUT IS 'LATENTLY GAY,' ALLEG CONTROVERSIAL NEW BGRAPHY
Put has also been nounced for signg laws that his liberal opponents ll openly homophobic, cludg a 2013 law that bans the spreadg of "propaganda of nontradnal sexual relatns" among mors.
Put says the legislatn, monly known as the "gay propaganda" law, is aimed at protectg children but do not ge on LGBT rights. Rsian Print Vladimir Put is a sexls man who may be secretly gay.
MAN WHO CLAIMS 'PUT'S CHEF' IS GAY INV SKEPTICS TO MEET HIM
In the book, Belkovsky, a long-time Put opponent, is also said to speculate that "sex and a sex life are alien" to the polician, who the 42-year-old thor says may be "latently gay. Implitns of homosexualy would unrstandably not s well wh the Rsian lear and his ernment. In July, Harvey Fierste wrote an op-ed for The New York Tim that Put had "clared war on homosexuals" after he signed several anti-gay bills to law, cludg one that banned "homosexual propaganda.
Dpe wispread ternatnal cricism, Put has fend the anti-gay measur and has sisted that neher he nor his ernment is homophobic. Before You GoStars Sound Off On Rsia's Anti-Gay Law Popular the CommunyYou May Like. The European Court of Human Rights led 2017 that the 2013 law is discrimatory, promot homophobia and vlat the European Conventn on Human Rights.
PUT SHAR THOUGHTS ON SHOWERG WH GAY MEN AND MENSTAL CYCL
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.
A vio makg the rounds on social media purports to show a man claimg that a close nfidant of Rsian Print Vladimir Put is gay, and he is vg skeptics to meet wh vio, shared Tuday by an Estonian Twter er who go by "Dmri, " begs wh a Rsian man troducg himself as Sasha Kurara and claimg to be an ex-nvict, havg served time prison at the same time as Yevgeny Prigozh. Prigozh is a wealthy bsman wh a close relatnship wh Put, sometim dubbed "Put's Chef" bee of his var rtrants and terg further said the profany- and slur-lan clip that Prigozh is gay, or at least, performed sexual acts on other men durg his time prison. A recently circulated vio purports to show a man who served prison time wh Prigozh claimg that he is gay.
RSIA'S VLADIMIR PUT 'IS GAY' CLAIMS NTROVERSIAL NEW BGRAPHY
It was a faiar rendn of Put’s bgo rd of geopolil rentments—and then he transned to the issue of gay and transgenr rights. He portrayed the war as a stggle between those seekg to reject Wtern valu and gay pri paras held as, his words, “loyalty tt[s]” to Wtern ernments.
Kreml officials seized on the ia of banng “gay propaganda, ” takg an obscure law that had been gag steam regnal legislatur sce 2006 and passg at the feral level 2013.
RSIAN COURT BANS IMAGE SUGGTG PUT IS GAY
The vaguely word law prohibs any discsns of homosexualy plac or formats that may be accsible to mors, cludg the media and onle.
It was, as later scribed by Human Rights Watch, a “classic example of polil homophobia” for “polil ga. Acrdg to Rsian media monorg anizatn Medialogiya, reports about homosexualy skyrocketed om jt 11 2011 to more than 160 2013.
The gay propaganda law 2013 rved a path that Rsian tanks wish they had Ukrae. The media verage that followed the passage of the gay propaganda law 2013 set the tone for the rise hate crim that was to follow.