Vice Patrol: Cops, Courts, and the Stggle over Urban Gay Life before Stonewall, Lvovsky

Contents:

• CHECHNYA: ESPED GAY MEN SENT BACK BY RSIAN POLICE
• THAT TIME I TOLD THE HEAD OF CHECHEN POLICE I WAS GAY. STANDG A JAIL CELL: REPORTER'S NOTEBOOK
• RSIA RETURNS ESPED GAY MEN TO CHECHEN POLICE – NGO
• RSIAN POLICE TA GAY RIGHTS ACTIVISTS AT MAY DAY MARCH
• RSIAN POLICE ROUND UP LGBT ACTIVISTS MONSTRATG AGAST PERSECUTN OF GAY MEN CHECHNYA
• RSIAN POLICE EE GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST ARRTED MOSW
• POLICE ARRT 30 AT GAY PRI RALLY MOSW
• RSIAN LGBTQ ACTIVIST IS KILLED AFTER BEG LISTED ON GAY-HUNTG WEBSE
• RSIAN POLICE TA GAYS AS PUNCH FLY

CHECHNYA: ESPED GAY MEN SENT BACK BY RSIAN POLICE

Image source, Getty ImagImage ptn, Chechnya has long been acced of persecutg sexual moriTwo gay Chechen men who fled to Rsia after allegedly beg tortured have been returned to Chechnya and are "mortal danger", a rights group Rsian LGBT Network said Salekh Magamadov and Ismail Isayev had been seized and returned by Rsian police. The group says they were later forcibly returned to thori Chechnya, a southern republic of people and other sexual mori face systematic persecutn predomantly Mlim Chechnya, where homophobia is regn's thorarian lear, Ramzan Kadyrov, has nsistently nied allegatns of illegal tentns and human rights and other ernment officials have even suggted there are no members of the LGBT+ muny source, RtersImage ptn, Chechen lear Ramzan Kadyrov (R) has nsistently nied allegatns of human rights abDpe official nials, dozens have e forward wh allegatns that they have been taed and tortured by thori bee of their sexual Magamadov and Mr Isayev are among LGBT Network said the men had arrived at a police statn the Chechen town of Gurm on Saturday.

"They are tired and ightened, " a spokman for the group, Tim Btsvet, told AFP news the ctody of Chechen thori, the men were "mortal danger", Mr Btsvet source, Getty ImagImage ptn, Chechnya has nied the existence of gay people the regnThe group has been monorg alleged ab Chechnya sce 2017, when dozens of gay people were reportedly 2019, the group alleged a h wave of persecutn and ab, accg Chechen police of killg two people unr torture. A ernment spokman dismissed that report as "plete li" said he was subjected to torture - cludg electric shocks and ptn, 'Rlan', a gay man who says he fled: "It's the extermatn of gay men"More on this story.

THAT TIME I TOLD THE HEAD OF CHECHEN POLICE I WAS GAY. STANDG A JAIL CELL: REPORTER'S NOTEBOOK

This cy is the pal of the Chechen Republic -- part of the Rsian Feratn -- and the foc of what many are llg a gay purge over the last two ab had slipped om the headl, but over the urse of a year, rights groups had told that the persecutn has ntued and that thori had waed for the backlash to subsi. Sanctns list for human rights vlatns and ’s his police force that's been acced of torturg and imprisong gay of the most important men the untry wanted to spend the eveng wh and he seemed lighted at the attentn.

But I don’t thk any n pare to tellg a man who is the head of a police force acced of torturg hundreds of LGBTQ people that I’m ma our way to the prison block, and by this time, we had amassed a small followg of armed guards and other officials: a bigger dience for the general's one-man News' Jam Longman toured a prison wh Apti Aldov, the head of police Chechnya, a Rsian republic that has allegedly purged LGBTQ people over the last two Longman As we walked, I gradually got the sense that might be ok to tell him I’m gay.

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RSIA RETURNS ESPED GAY MEN TO CHECHEN POLICE – NGO

Rsian police have allegedly taed two gay men who ped om the republic of Chechnya and hand them over to thori their home regn, the Rsian LGBT Network reported Thursday. MOSCOW (Rters) - Rsian police arrted about 20 gay-rights protters monstratg on Monday St Petersburg agast the treatment of homosexuals the southern Chechnya republic, one of the taed activists told Rters. Wtern ernments and human rights activists have long cricized the Rsian thori for their treatment of gay month, Rsian pennt newspaper Novaya Gazeta reported that up to 100 gay men were beg held and tortured “mps” Chechnya.

Chechnya’s Mosw-backed print Ramzan Kadyrov ni that human rights are routely abed his republic and his spokman has lled Novaya’s report “an absolute lie”, sayg there were no gay men Chechnya to be Kochetkov, a well-known activist Rsia’s gay, lbian and transgenr muny, told Rters that he was among a group of 10 beg taed one St Petersburg police statn.

“I was wavg a rabow flag (reprentg gay rights), and was shoutg ‘Kadyrov should go to the Hague’, ” Kochetkov told Rters by telephone whilst gay rights activists had joed an opposn-led May Day rally St Petersburg, the send biggt cy Rsia. For ee real time breakg news alerts sent straight to your box sign up to our breakg news emailsSign up to our ee breakg news emailsRsian police have taed LGBT activists attemptg to raise awarens about the persecutn of gay men monstratn was held durg a May Day march St Petersburg, wh a group of around 10 protters arrted near the Anichkov Bridge the centre of Rsia’s send shared on Twter showed activists lyg on the road pretendg to be ad, wh fake blood smeared across their fac and vered wh rabow and Chechen flags. A separate group of gay-rights protters were taed wh plards that lled for the Chechen lear, Ramzan Kadyrov, to be tried at the Internatnal Court of Jtice The activist was taken away an ambulance after he appeared to have fated.

RSIAN POLICE TA GAY RIGHTS ACTIVISTS AT MAY DAY MARCH

The actn was prott at the systemic persecutn of gay men the Rsian republic of than 100 men have been round up and taed secret prisons by thori recent weeks, wh many beaten and tortured, the Rsian newspaper Novaya Gazeta least four are alleged to have been killed. Ramzan Kadyrov, the Print of Chechnya (REUTERS)A spokman for Mr Kadyrov said the report was “absolute li and disrmatn” and claimed gay people did not exist the state.

RSIAN POLICE ROUND UP LGBT ACTIVISTS MONSTRATG AGAST PERSECUTN OF GAY MEN CHECHNYA

Hundreds prott at Rsian embassy over 'gay ncentratn mps' ChechnyaHuman Rights Watch (HRW) is sthg about the Rsian ernment treatment of LGBT group acc the Kreml of “failg their obligatn to prevent and prosecute homophobic vlence”. ”In terviews nducted wh gay and lbian Rsians, HRW said LGBT people scribed beg "physilly attacked by strangers durg their everyday activi" May Day march St Petersburg was one of dozens around the many untri, cludg Turkey, Cambodia, the Philipp and Banglash, workers took to the streets to prott about poor ndns and pay. Gay rights activist Peter Tatchell was released by Rsian police on Thursday after beg taed near Mosw’s Red Square for prottg agast the untry’s reported abe of LGBTQ people.

Tatchell stood outsi the Kreml on Thursday holdg a banner cril of Rsian Print Vladimir Put, sayg, "Put fails to act agast Chechnya torture of gay people.

Chechen lear Ramzan Kadyrov has nied the accatns and has claimed there are no gays Tatchell's one-man prott, he was approached by several police officers who told him his actns were not thorized. Rsian police arrted at least 30 activists central Mosw on Saturday at a gay pri rally to mark 20 years sce homosexualy was officers pounced on the gay mpaigners moments after they unfurled banners and rabow-loured flags outsi the State Duma, Rsia's lower hoe of parliament, on Saturday afternoon. Activists chose to rally by the Duma to prott agast a feral bill that would impose f of up to 500, 000 roubl (£10, 500) for promotg homosexualy among mors.

RSIAN POLICE EE GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST ARRTED MOSW

More than 10 regnal legislatur across Rsia have passed siar laws which have been wily than two s after the fall of the Soviet Unn, Rsia remas eply nservative and pennt opn polls show that about three-quarters of the populatn support supprsg public displays of homosexualy.

POLICE ARRT 30 AT GAY PRI RALLY MOSW

"The Orthodox Christian church, which enjoys pri of place among the untry's many fahs, has stoked tolerance towards gays, scribg homosexualy as a moral threat to Rsia. Nikolai Alexeyev, an aniser of the rally and a leadg gay rights mpaigner, said an terview on the eve of the rally that he had been forced to spend Friday night away om home orr to eva pture.

Alexeyev, who was fed 5, 000 roubl St Petersburg a year ago for "homosexual propaganda", said Rsian thori ntued to portray gay people as "eaks" to distract public attentn om the ernment's wir ltle to show for the past eight years of mpaigng, he said activists now believe tolerance towards gay people uld persist for many years to e. Grryeva wrote that the se, which aniz a “hunt for homosexual, bisexual and transgenr people, ” went onle sprg 2018 and was shut down several tim but always popped back up.

RSIAN LGBTQ ACTIVIST IS KILLED AFTER BEG LISTED ON GAY-HUNTG WEBSE

”“They publish the rmatn, like LGBT activists’ photos, addrs, nam, and they ll to hunt LGBT activist and to get a reward for that, " Zakharova whether the police would vtigate, Zakharova said, “Unfortunately, I don’t thk so, and I’m sure that even if is a homophobic hate crime, the hate motive is not gog to be taken to acunt. “Y, people are very worried — well I would say that the fact that this webse exists for so long wh out any reactn om the thori is very tellg; tells a lot about homophobia Rsians' stutnal levels.

RSIAN POLICE TA GAYS AS PUNCH FLY

”Even as the Rsian ernment, led by Print Vladimir Put, crimaliz LGBTQ activism and cracks down on “homosexual propaganda, ” a recent survey suggts that average Rsians are much ls uned agast the LGBTQ muny than the state.

A May poll showed that 43 percent of rponnts said “gays and lbians should enjoy the same rights as other cizens, ” acrdg to The Mosw Tim, an pennt English-language fac ltle ternatnal blowback for s regrsn on LGBTQ rights. MOSCOW (Rters) - Rsian natnalists shoutg “ath to homosexuals” punched and kicked monstrators llg for the right to hold a Gay Pri para central Mosw on Sunday while rt police taed dozens of gay rights activists are attacked by natnalist monstrators Mosw May 27, 2007.