Activists say legislatn outlawg 'homosexual propaganda' has embolned rightwg groups to step up attacks on gay people
Contents:
- ‘I’M AAID FOR MY FUTURE’: PROPOSED LAWS THREATEN GAY LIFE RSIA
- AN INTERVIEW WH A GAY, RSIAN NEO-NAZI
- RSIA: SUATN OF GAYS AND LBIANS
- RSIAN ANTI-GAY LAW PROMPTS RISE HOMOPHOBIC VLENCE
‘I’M AAID FOR MY FUTURE’: PROPOSED LAWS THREATEN GAY LIFE RSIA
We ll on the Rsian thori to cease targetg the largt and most proment LGBTI rights group Rsia and foster a normal workg environment for activists for the rights of lbian, gay, bisexual, tersex and transgenr people the untry. * gay groups russia *
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. 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.
We ll on the Rsian thori to cease targetg the largt and most proment LGBTI rights group Rsia and foster a normal workg environment for activists for the rights of lbian, gay, bisexual, tersex and transgenr people the untry. Usg rogatory and offensive language towards the LGBTI muny, a program by the ernmental broadster Vti lled the Rsian LGBT Network a “web of gay-propaganda, ” suggtg that the Network “feeble-md youth” to reach s “propaganda” goals.
We urge Rsian thori to put an end to their stctive mpaign aga leadg LGBTI rights activists the untry, repeal the “gay propaganda” law and the “foreign agents” legislatn, and enable LGBTI rights and all human rights groups, to do their work unhred. A Sat Petersburg urt led last week that two lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) social media groups vlated Rsia’s notor “gay propaganda” law and orred the s shuttered. It has been ed to jtify a crimal vtigatn of social workers who allowed a gay uple to adopt children, forcg the fay to flee to the Uned Stat.
AN INTERVIEW WH A GAY, RSIAN NEO-NAZI
A Sat Petersburg urt led last week that two lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) social media groups vlated Rsia’s notor “gay propaganda” law and orred the s shuttered. * gay groups russia *
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. The vaguely word law prohibs any discsns of homosexualy plac or formats that may be accsible to mors, cludg the media and onle. Acrdg to Rsian media monorg anizatn Medialogiya, reports about homosexualy skyrocketed om jt 11 2011 to more than 160 2013.
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. In 2016, Dmry Tsilik, a proment art and culture cric who was gay, was stabbed more than 30 tim by a man he met on an onle datg se. “Over the past two to three years, this hatred has grown all directns, cludg, unfortunately, towards gay people.
RSIA: SUATN OF GAYS AND LBIANS
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In 2021, Hungary’s nservative ernment passed a gay propaganda law very siar to Rsia’s while Romania is weighg s own. In July, about a week after the Kreml phed through nstutnal amendments that clu fg marriage as a unn between a man and woman, Tsvetkova was fed for a send time unr the untry’s notor “gay propaganda” law and forced to pay 75, 000 Rubl ($1000) over her lorful illtratns of same-sex upl and their young children.
Mizula lost support bee of the “tremendo level of public outrage about the bill’s homophobia and transphobia, ” Jonny Dzhibladze, a ordator at Vykhod (“Comg Out”), a St. A year later Put passed the so-lled “gay propaganda” law, which bans rmatn emed to promote homosexualy to mors.
RSIAN ANTI-GAY LAW PROMPTS RISE HOMOPHOBIC VLENCE
Receivg photos of mutilated bodi wh the warng "you're next" rattled gay rights activist Nika Toov but when he saw surveillance men outsi his home, he fled Rsia for good. * gay groups russia *
They urged the thori to protect the activist, who says she has received ath threats om an anonymo homophobic work lled Saw that publish the nam and ntacts of LGBTQ people, and lls for vlence agast them.
In 2009, Rsia’s most proment opposn figure Alexei Navalny suggted that gay people uld “olic” a rdoned stadium rather than public a Pri Para.
More recently, June, he acced the ernment of gog “pletely crazy” after pro-Kreml media group Patrt released a homophobic polil advert. But as a printial ndidate 2018, she clud same-sex civil unns and the liftg of the “gay propaganda” law her polil program. ”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.