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Contents:
- DAYS AFTER A H LIST FOR GAYS AND LBIANS DISAPPEARS, A RSIAN ACTIVIST IS KILLED
- RSIA’S GAY DEMONS
- GAY REPUBLIN CONGRSNAL NDIDATE ACCED OF SEXUAL HARASSMENT, PUBLIC MASTURBATN
DAYS AFTER A H LIST FOR GAYS AND LBIANS DISAPPEARS, A RSIAN ACTIVIST IS KILLED
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In fact, apart om Ian McKellan beg nomated 1999 and 2002 for Gods and Monsters and The Lord of the Rgs: The Fellowship of the Rg rpectively, no out gay actors have been regnized on the Osr stage. "I thk people thk that if you're a gay person playg a gay role, that's not actg, " De J says.
"A straight guy plays straight his whole reer and no one go, 'Oh, they mt not be very talented, I've never seen them play gay. There were dozens of nam on : Rsian gays, lbians, activists and supporters of LGBT , even journalists. The killg has stunned gay people across Rsia, where members of the LGBT muny and advot for their rights have faced worseng threats for years now.
“Of urse, people are shocked” by the killg, said Svetlana Zakharova of the Rsian LGBT Network, one of the untry’s largt advocy anizatns for gays and lbians. Homosexualy was crimalized Rsia the 1990s, but LGBT people have faced varyg gre of discrimatn over the years. Rights fenrs say bias has been enuraged by a law targetg gay “propaganda, ” which Print Vladimir Put signed 2013.
RSIA’S GAY DEMONS
Sce then, LGBT-rights mpaigners and hate-crime rearchers have reported a notable uptick vlence and harassment agast gays and lbians, often om nservative activists, or those pog Orthodox Christian beliefs.
It is unclear who exactly is behd the Saw lists, which have been circulatg for years on social-media works and “dark web” s, llg for rears to lote and attack gay people Rsia. Sce then, the se has promoted an event lled “Chechnya Comeback” -- a reference to a so-lled gay purge which media vtigatns and harrowg personal acunts revealed that gay and bisexual men the Chechnya regn were beg targeted. It has also published personal tails about gays and lbians Rsia, such as addrs and phone numbers, and sold the rmatn to people willg to pay for .
A screenshot om the webse of the homophobic group llg self “Saw Agast LGBT. RFE/RL’s Rsian Service is also named, as is Novaya Gazeta, an pennt Rsian newspaper that was the first to report that law-enforcement thori Chechnya were roundg up gay and bisexual men.
GAY REPUBLIN CONGRSNAL NDIDATE ACCED OF SEXUAL HARASSMENT, PUBLIC MASTURBATN
He has stead intified the enemy wh as Rsia’s homosexuals, whose persecutn is one of the ma them of The Future Is History, Masha Gsen’s remarkable group portra of seven Soviet-born Rsians whose changg liv embody the changg fortun and character of their untry as passed om the end of Communist dictatorship unr Mikhail Gorbachev to improvised liberalism unr Boris Yelts and then back to what Gsen se as renewed totalarianism unr of Gsen’s central characters, Masha* and Lyosha, were born to the ted middle class of the 1980s. She me back to Ameri 2013, fearg that if she stayed Rsia, official hostily toward homosexuals uld rult her children beg seized by the state.
Rsia’s persecutn of homosexuals is the strand of Gsen’s book that shows Put at his celt. She arrang this narrative around Lyosha, who was born near Perm 1985, and who was fifteen, on holiday Crimea, when he regnized himself as gay:.
The early post-Soviet perd was not the very worst of tim to be gay Rsia. Homosexualy was no longer illegal. The sadistic murr 2013 of a young gay man Volgograd ma a ep imprsn on him, and Gsen’s acunt of will make a ep imprsn on you too.