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- 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.
RSIA’S GAY DEMONS
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.
GAY REPUBLIN CONGRSNAL NDIDATE ACCED OF SEXUAL HARASSMENT, PUBLIC MASTURBATN
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.