Young mothers Yana and Yaroslava don’t want to leave Rsia wh their 6-year-old son. But they fear a harsh new anti-gay law passed by Rsian lawmakers will leave them ltle choice.
Contents:
- LORENZO LUIGI T. GAYYA
- ‘OUR MERE EXISTENCE IS ILLEGAL.’ AS MOSW TOUGHENS ANTI-GAY LAW, LGBTQ RSIANS FEAR FOR THE FUTURE
- CHECHNYA: ESPED GAY MEN SENT BACK BY RSIAN POLICE
LORENZO LUIGI T. GAYYA
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Top 6 Lorenzo Luigi Gayya om the Universy of Santo Tomas (UST) terned for the Public Attorneys Office (PAO) law school.
Somehow and someday when I obta the means and the skills, I want to work towards securg jtice for those who have ls life, ” Gayya said. Gayya was already workg for a private firm when he passed the Bar, somethg he said he would ntue for now.
This aspect of lawyerg attracts me and I feel like this is somethg I’m meant for, ” Gayya said.
‘OUR MERE EXISTENCE IS ILLEGAL.’ AS MOSW TOUGHENS ANTI-GAY LAW, LGBTQ RSIANS FEAR FOR THE FUTURE
Torralba and Gayya, who both e om UST – currently embroiled the high-profile hazg ath se of hman law stunt Horac “At” Castillo III – oppose hazg. “Lawyers who m illegal acts, ” Gayya said. Sugay Associate.
Internatnal advot have cried the vlence as a byproduct of state-sponsored Rsian homophobia.
CHECHNYA: ESPED GAY MEN SENT BACK BY RSIAN POLICE
As a rult, Svetski and his fellow LGBTQ+ Rsians are forced to advote for Rsia, activists crease their exposure to vlence the more they anize agast homophobia, says Daniel Balson, an advocy director at Amnty Internatnal. ”In 2013, Rsia famoly crimized “gay propoganda. Last November, an LGBTQ+ nference Mosw had to be nceled followg homophobic month, the untry was slapped wh a 42, 500 ro fe by the European Court of Human Rights for refg to allow LGBTQ+ anizatns Rabow Hoe, the Movement for Marriage Equaly, and the Sochi Pri Hoe the right to register as official associatns.
The Human Rights Campaign, which tracks anti-LGBTQ+ hate groups abroad, reports that eight Amerin extremist activists have been active Rsia recent years: Stt Lively, Benjam Bull, Jordan Sekulow, Peter LaBarbera, Pl Cameron, Brian Brown, Larry Jabs and Janice Shaw Croe, all famo for their anti-LGBTQ activism, have poured money and time to the Lively, print of the Massachetts-based Abidg Tth Mistri, claims cred for Rsia’s gay propaganda law, statg he proposed 2007, acrdg to HRC. As vehemently anti-gay polici have creasgly failed the Uned Stat, those anizatns began to export their money and iologi abroad to plac like Uganda, Kenya, and Rsia.
“The Amerin dollar n go a long way other untri, pecially terms of what they see as trag nservative movement lears and that so-lled movement that foc on fay valu, ” says 2013, Benjam Bull went to Mosw on behalf of ADF and met wh Yelena Mizula, the archect of the gay propaganda law.