Anti-gay viral vio stirs outrage ahead of Rsian referendum | CNN

Contents:

• ANTI-GAY VIRAL VIO STIRS OUTRAGE AHEAD OF RSIAN REFERENDUM
• HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH RELEAS VIO SHOWG CINTS OF ANTI-GAY VLENCE RSIA
• YOUTUBE TAK DOWN ANTI-GAY AD AFTER OUTRAGE RSIA
• BTAL VIOS FUEL RSIAN ANTI-GAY MPAIGN
• INSI RSIA'S ANTI-GAY VIGILANTE ARMY, OCCUPY PEDOPHILIA
• WHY RSIA IS SO ANTI-GAY
• NEO-NAZI WHO TORTURED GAY PEOPLE VIRAL VIOS DI PRISON OF SUICI

ANTI-GAY VIRAL VIO STIRS OUTRAGE AHEAD OF RSIAN REFERENDUM

“There’s your mother, ” the father says, noddg to another actor – a riture of a flamboyantly gay man – wag a r outsi. Alexanr Filimonenko, the actor who played the gay man, apologized an Instagram post after the backlash.

HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH RELEAS VIO SHOWG CINTS OF ANTI-GAY VLENCE RSIA

Nikolay Stolyarch, the head of Patrt Media Group, the parent pany of RIA FAN, acknowledged the ntroversy, but said the vio was le wh Rsian laws passed unr Put’s le that have outlawed so-lled “homosexual propaganda, ” measur that have drawn wispread ternatnal nmnatn. “I agree that the topic is ambiguo, but the pot of this vio is not mpaigng agast homosexuals, as some reprentativ of the opposn are tryg to pat .

YOUTUBE TAK DOWN ANTI-GAY AD AFTER OUTRAGE RSIA

The timg of the anti-gay vio, which has drawn over 76, 000 views on YouTube, seems clear. Wh the ey of the world about to turn to the Wter Olympics Sochi, a human rights group has released a new disturbg vio highlightg vlence agast gay, lbian, transgenr and bisexual people unr Rsia's anti-gay laws that went to effect last year.

"The vio shows gay men Rsia beg punched, kicked and beaten by attackers who filmed and dissemated the footage, which was then piled by the human rights victims, the group add, "were aaid to go to the police to report vlence, fearg further harassment and believg the police would not bother to pursue their attackers.

BTAL VIOS FUEL RSIAN ANTI-GAY MPAIGN

"Last June, the Rsian Parliament passed a bill makg homosexual propaganda illegal, banng the discsn and promotn of "nontradnal sexual relatnships to mors. "We know mt surely ncern you, as eply ncerns all of , that sce beg selected as the host untry for the Wter Olympics, the Rsian ernment has tensified s asslt on the human rights of s lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) cizens, " the letter said, ntug:"Rsian cizens and foreigners are banned by law om publicly supportg equaly for LGBT people.

INSI RSIA'S ANTI-GAY VIGILANTE ARMY, OCCUPY PEDOPHILIA

LGBT Rsians have effectively been phed to the margs of society and are now forced to live wh daily threats to their safety a untry that is promotg state-sanctned homophobia and transphobia. "The letter — distributed to CEOs at pani cludg Co Cola, General Electric, McDonald’s, Procter & Gamble, Samsung and Visa — urged sponsors to speak out agast Rsia’s anti-gay 'propaganda' law and ask the Internatnal Olympic Commtee (IOC) "to unrtake systemic reforms to monor and prevent human rights ab future host untri.

"Nobody is more offend than me by some of the anti-gay and lbian legislatn that you've been seeg Rsia, " Print Barack Obama said last summer. "And one of the thgs I'm really lookg forward to is maybe some gay and lbian athlet brgg home the gold or silver or bronze. MILAN, June 3 (Thomson Rters Foundatn) - An onle vio suggtg Rsians back nstutnal reform or see gay upl w adoptn rights was taken down by YouTube on Wednday after LGBT+ groups said ced clip, posted onle this week, shows a boy gog om joy to heartbreak as he disvers his new parents are ad had created an onle furore that experts said uld help garner support for the reform vote, which uld let Print Vladimir Put extend his long plays on ep-seated anti-gay sentiment the untry, where activists say vlence agast gay people has been on the rise sce the adoptn of a 2013 law that banned the dissematn of “gay propaganda” among young heterosexual upl n adopt children Rsia.

WHY RSIA IS SO ANTI-GAY

Deci the future of the untry - vote for amendments to the nstutn, ” a voiceover says, suggtg a vote for Put protects tradnal is to hold a natnwi vote on nstutnal reforms that clu rettg Put’s printial term tally to zero, which uld extend his le until proposed amendment spells out that marriage means a unn between a man and a woman - and nothg two s power, Put has closely aligned himself wh the Orthodox Church and sought to distance Rsia om liberal Wtern valu, cludg attus toward homosexualy and genr vio drew a torrent of cricism.

NEO-NAZI WHO TORTURED GAY PEOPLE VIRAL VIOS DI PRISON OF SUICI

Opposn polician Alexei Navalny wrote on Twter that Put officials had gone “pletely crazy” over homosexualy. Patrt Media Group, the firm that produced the clip, said the vio was not “mpaigng agast homosexuals” but aimed to expla the ntent of the July vote. “It strik me as beg eply homophobic, ” he told the Thomson Rters Foundatn by phone.

Gay rights groups Rsia have said a new law rtrictg the spread of rmatn about homosexualy has sparked a wave of vlence agast the gay and lbian muny. 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. 's Channel 4 aired Hunted, a wi-rangg documentary about homophobia Rsia.