Rammste Members Kiss Onstage Rsia Defiance of "Gay Propaganda Law" | Revolver

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• RAMMSTEIN FRONTMAN: IT'S VERY EASY FOR GAY MEN TO GET LAID
• RAMMSTE MEMBERS KISS ONSTAGE RSIA DEFIANCE OF "GAY PROPAGANDA LAW"

RAMMSTEIN FRONTMAN: IT'S VERY EASY FOR GAY MEN TO GET LAID

In the article, RAMMSTEIN volist Till Lmann asks the reporter: "Do you thk 's homophobic? It’s about gay men and the fact that they're lucky a way. "I'm not gog to give out any name, but an English band that we [RAMMSTEIN] are iends wh has two gay members.

We ma a bet about somethg and if I were to lose I had to take the two of them out Berl one night and vis all the gay clubs my neighborhood. Rammste Frontman Talks About Gays | Mic News @.

While an onstage kiss may seem somewhat tame for the group, Rsia, uld be nsired a crimal offense — while the untry do not have any laws that directly outlaw homosexualy, their “gay propoganda” law outlaws any and all “propaganda of nontradnal sexual relatns, ” acrdg to The Guardian. In Chechnya, a feral subject of Rsia, both 2017 and 2019, dozens of gay men were taed and held by the ernment for beg gay, wh at least 2 beg killed, acrdg to activists. The group’s dmmer, Christoph Schneir, shared a photo on Instagram of himself wavg a rabow flag durg their tour stop Poland followg an anti-gay attack on the first Pri march the nservative town of Bialystock.

RAMMSTE MEMBERS KISS ONSTAGE RSIA DEFIANCE OF "GAY PROPAGANDA LAW"

Till Lmann om Rammste (AP Photo)Rammste rockers Pl Lanrs and Richard Kspe took a stand agast Rsia’s anti-LGBTQ laws by kissg onstage durg a ncert the German micians – who are both guar players the heavy metal band - locked lips durg a performance of their song Alanr at Rsia’s Luzhniki Stadium earlier this was an ternatnal outcry 2013 when Rsia passed what is known as the “gay propaganda law”, and many have said that the legislatn has ma the untry a hostile environment for LGBTQ more: Rammste set for stadium tourHowever, Lanrs and Kspe were clearly unterred by the policy as they leaned and puckered up onstage ont of thoands of their group also reerated their statement by later sharg a photo of the moment on Instagram.

There, on June 30th, 2013, print Vladimir Put enacted a feral law known as "for the Purpose of Protectg Children From Informatn Advotg for a Denial of Tradnal Fay Valu, " or lloquially referred to as the "gay propaganda law. Passed 2013 by Print Vladimir Put, Rsia’s “gay propaganda” law bans materials that would “[prent] distorted ias about the equal social value of tradnal and non-tradnal sexual relatnships. ” Conmned by human rights groups like Amnty Internatnal and Human Rights Watch, the law sentially renrs illegal Rsia to exprs any kd of homosexualy and genr-non-nformy public; Elton John recently penned an open letter to Put after his bpic Rocketman was eded due to the law.

Rsia has also seen an uptick homophobic vlence sce the passage of the law. Rammste’s kiss a month after the murr of LGBTQ activist Yelena Grigoryeva, whose name was listed on a Rsian webse that offers priz for “huntg” gay people and their advot.