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:
- PROTTS AGAST RSIA "GAY PROPAGANDA" BAN TURN VLENT
- ‘OUR MERE EXISTENCE IS ILLEGAL.’ AS MOSW TOUGHENS ANTI-GAY LAW, LGBTQ RSIANS FEAR FOR THE FUTURE
- GAY TIKTOK UPLE ARRTED RSIA
- ANTI-GAY VIRAL VIO STIRS OUTRAGE AHEAD OF RSIAN REFERENDUM
PROTTS AGAST RSIA "GAY PROPAGANDA" BAN TURN VLENT
Milant Orthodox activists attacked members of Rsia's gay muny prottg a law that would make public LGBT events illegal * russian anti gay propaganda *
MOSCOW Milant Orthodox activists have attacked members of Rsia's embattled gay muny prottg agast a planned law banng "gay propaganda". Rsia may ban "homosexual propaganda" natnwiRsia's Parliament is to nsir a feral law that mak public events and dissematn of rmatn on the LGBT muny to mors punishable by f of up to $16, 000.
Rsia crimalized homosexualy 1993, but homophobia remas strong. Lawmakers have also acced gays of creasg Rsia's already low birth rat and said they should be barred om ernment jobs, unrgo forced medil treatment or be exiled.
The European Court of Human Rights led 2017 that the 2013 law is discrimatory, promot homophobia and vlat the European Conventn on Human Rights. The urt found that the law “served no legimate public tert, ” rejectg suggtns that public bate on LGBT issu uld fluence children to bee homosexual, or that threatened public morals. Homosexualy was crimalized Rsia 1993, but homophobia and discrimatn is still rife.
‘OUR MERE EXISTENCE IS ILLEGAL.’ AS MOSW TOUGHENS ANTI-GAY LAW, LGBTQ RSIANS FEAR FOR THE FUTURE
Speakg before Put signed the bill to the law on Monday, Tanya Loksha, associate Europe and Central Asia director at Human Rights Watch said: “The 2013 ‘gay propaganda’ law was an unabashed example of polil homophobia, and the new draft legislatn amplifi that broar and harsher ways.
As a gay man a untry that ma anti-gay iology a foundatn of s anti-Ukrae propaganda, he feared for his life every day. In his seven years as a gay activist, Maysky has never seen Rsian-speakg LGBTQ+ immigrants g to California such great numbers.
GAY TIKTOK UPLE ARRTED RSIA
Petersburg who left Rsia after his parents threatened to sue his therapist who backed him receivg hormone therapy; and Ivan, 18, who is gay, half Rsian and half Ukraian, and “didn’t want to kill people.
ANTI-GAY VIRAL VIO STIRS OUTRAGE AHEAD OF RSIAN REFERENDUM
Thoands of members of the LGBTQ+ muny are fleeg Rsia’s anti-gay laws. “My parents are very nservative and they don’t believe gay people should exist, ” said Max, who didn’t disclose his last name for fear of retaliatn agast his parents who live St.
Most of his iends are the closet or fled the untry — and many of them, he said, were vlently attacked by anti-gay groups before they left. Thoands of members of the LGBTQ+ muny are fleeg Rsia due to anti-gay laws. A survey published 2020 by Mosw-based non-ernmental rearch anizatn the Levada Center, found that about 30% of Rsians wanted to isolate gay people om society.
One of the rearchers, Ekatera Kochega, told NBC News that many Rsians “would not want to see gay people existg.