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Contents:
- MEET THE GAY RSIAN TEENAGER USG TWTER TO COMBAT HOMOPHOBIA
- RSIA TO GAYS: SHUT UP AND DISAPPEAR
- WHY RSIA TURNED AGAST THE GAYS
- 'WE'RE NOT HIDG': GAY AND LBIAN RSIANS SAY A CULTURAL SHIFT IS UNRWAY
- BARACK OBAMA’S BROTHER CLAIMS HE’S ‘FELY GAY’ – MEDIA
MEET THE GAY RSIAN TEENAGER USG TWTER TO COMBAT HOMOPHOBIA
Apart om activists prottg Mosw and Sat Petersburg, most gay Rsians have attempted to mask their inty, makg difficult for Wterners to know what ’s really like to be gay Rsia. But one gay Rsian teenager is changg this... * twitter russia gay *
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.
RSIA TO GAYS: SHUT UP AND DISAPPEAR
Ten years ago, a bill was passed banng so-lled "gay propaganda" relatn to children.
WHY RSIA TURNED AGAST THE GAYS
Human rights groups say that was followed by a rise vlent homophobic attacks Rsia. But the fear generated by the legislatn is already leadg to censorship: onle cemas have leted LGBT-themed films and TV seri and eded out gay scen.
'WE'RE NOT HIDG': GAY AND LBIAN RSIANS SAY A CULTURAL SHIFT IS UNRWAY
In one episo of the highly-acclaimed HBO seri The Whe Lot, a Rsian streamg service changed the word "gay" to "man", eded a towel onto one male character's bare backsi and leted a gay sex scene, jt days after the law was ptn, The book Shattered, about the romance between two men, has been heavily redacted RsiaBooks, too, are beg censored. The text has been redacted by the publisher, wh whole sectns replaced wh black of the -thors of the law, an openly homophobic natnalist lled Valy Milonov, agre to speak to me via violk.
“This legislatn is the latt a strg of asslts on the rights of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr people, this time unr the bric of state-ced transphobia. “First Rsia tried to erase lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr inti om public view, and now they are targetg transgenr people themselv, ” Reid said.
BARACK OBAMA’S BROTHER CLAIMS HE’S ‘FELY GAY’ – MEDIA
“Rsia should reverse s outrageo policy and ensure rights to inty, fay life, and medil re for lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr people – startg wh reversg the anti-trans law.