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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
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. * lorenzo gayya *
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. 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.
‘OUR MERE EXISTENCE IS ILLEGAL.’ AS MOSW TOUGHENS ANTI-GAY LAW, LGBTQ RSIANS FEAR FOR THE FUTURE
Sugay Associate. Internatnal advot have cried the vlence as a byproduct of state-sponsored Rsian homophobia.
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.
CHECHNYA: ESPED GAY MEN SENT BACK BY RSIAN POLICE
”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.