Rsia: Expand 'Gay Propaganda' Ban Progrs Toward Law | Human Rights Watch

Contents:

•  RUSSIA: ‘GAY PROPAGANDA’ LAW REMAS PLACE, BUT PLATS AGAST NTUE
• GAY TIKTOK UPLE ARRTED RSIA
• RSIA: EXPAND 'GAY PROPAGANDA' BAN PROGRS TOWARD LAW
• ANTI-GAY PROPAGANDA VIO GO VIRAL RSIA
• ‘OUR MERE EXISTENCE IS ILLEGAL.’ AS MOSW TOUGHENS ANTI-GAY LAW, LGBTQ RSIANS FEAR FOR THE FUTURE
• WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT RSIA’S SO-CALLED ‘GAY PROPAGANDA’ BILL
• RSIAN LAWMAKERS MOVE TO TOUGHEN ‘GAY PROPAGANDA’ LAW, BANNG ALL ADULTS OM ‘PROMOTG’ SAME-SEX RELATNSHIPS
• PROTTS, BOYTT LLS AS ANGER GROWS OVER RSIA ANTI-GAY PROPAGANDA LAWS
• LGBT HATE CRIM DOUBLE RSIA AFTER BAN ON 'GAY PROPAGANDA'

 RUSSIA: ‘GAY PROPAGANDA’ LAW REMAS PLACE, BUT PLATS AGAST NTUE

SummaryIn 2013 Rsia enacted a feral law prohibg what lled “gay propaganda”, g the protectn of children as an exce to silence any public discsns or posive msag about LGBT issu.

Ostensibly foced on the “Protectn of the Moraly of Children”, the law the Ryazan Oblast prohibed “public actns aimed at propaganda of homosexualy (sodomy or lbianism) among mors”.

It was amend to make an offence to take part “the promotn of homosexualy among mors” 2008, jtified by cg the myth that gay men plan to “rec” young people to beg homosexual.

GAY TIKTOK UPLE ARRTED RSIA

The laws me to force at a time when openly homophobic rhetoric was risg Rsia, and LGBT rights anisatns have sce lked their adoptn Rsia to an crease vlence agast LGBT people and a crease protectn for LGBT people om the 2013 the untry’s children’s missner went so far as to say that protectn of the “tradnal fay” was a matter of natnal secury, and that policians who opposed this prry should be “cursed for centuri as stroyers of the fay and the human race”. Settg up a picket outsi a sendary school he unfurled two banners proclaimg: “Homosexualy is normal” and “I am proud of my homosexualy”.

RSIA: EXPAND 'GAY PROPAGANDA' BAN PROGRS TOWARD LAW

One claimed that a lack of rmatn about LGBT rights ntributed to Rsia havg the world’s hight teenage suici rate, while the other listed a number of proment Rsian public figur believed to be gay. Like Bayev, they had travelled to stage a prott that would potentially see them fed unr the regn’s “gay propaganda” law, the hop that they would be able to succsfully ntt eher their f or the nstutnaly of the laws themselv.

This challenge was readily were arrted and fed, and Alekseyev was fed aga 2012 while prottg another “gay propaganda” law St Petersburg, after holdg a sign which read “Homosexualy is not a perversn. ”Knowg that Rsian urts had prevly taken to acunt lgs of Uned Natns bodi, Bartenev had also referred to a 2012 Human Rights Commtee cisn which Ryazan Oblast’s “gay propaganda” law was found to have vlated a prottor’s right to eedom of exprsn. The judg led that Rsia had failed to monstrate how eedom of exprsn on LGBT issu would adversely affect “tradnal fai” and said the European Court would not beg to endorse polici “which embodied a predisposed bias on the part of a heterosexual majory agast a homosexual mory”.

ANTI-GAY PROPAGANDA VIO GO VIRAL RSIA

The urt nmned Rsia’s attempts to draw parallels between homosexualy and paedophilia and argued that, fact, the prentatn of objective rmatn about sex and genr inty should be nsired an dispensable part of public-health policy. Fally, the urt dismissed the ernment’s allegatns that children uld be enticed to a “homosexual liftyle” on the grounds that there was no evince at all to that effect.

The lg ultimately found that Rsia’s “gay propaganda” law was open to abe dividual s and rerced stigma and prejudice agast LGBT people. Between 2013 and 2015 Moldova, Ukrae and Lhuania eher abolished or whdrew siar “gay propaganda”-style legislatn, markg a move away om discrimatn the “gay propaganda” law ntu to be ed Rsia, more challeng to are ntug to e forward. 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. 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.”.

‘OUR MERE EXISTENCE IS ILLEGAL.’ AS MOSW TOUGHENS ANTI-GAY LAW, LGBTQ RSIANS FEAR FOR THE FUTURE

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.

“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.

WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT RSIA’S SO-CALLED ‘GAY PROPAGANDA’ BILL

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. Although is not illegal to be an LGBTQ+ person Rsia, a ago the Kreml passed a so-lled “gay propaganda law” banng the distributn of rmatn about gay relatnships among mors.

Maksim and Dmrii say they n’t wa to marry and start a fay, somethg that they, as gay men, wouldn’t be able to experience back home. In December 2022, Rsia expand s existg “gay propaganda” law to exert ntrol over public discsns and narrativ surroundg non-heterosexual relatnships and inti. “This legislatn is the latt a strg of asslts on the rights of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr people, this time unr the bric of state-ced transphobia.

“First Rsia tried to erase lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr inti om public view, and now they are targetg transgenr people themselv, ” Reid said. “Rsia should reverse s outrageo policy and ensure rights to inty, fay life, and medil re for lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr people – startg wh reversg the anti-trans law.

RSIAN LAWMAKERS MOVE TO TOUGHEN ‘GAY PROPAGANDA’ LAW, BANNG ALL ADULTS OM ‘PROMOTG’ SAME-SEX RELATNSHIPS

The young woman who only intified herself to Dimrov by the name Elena said that sce the latt passage of laws cludg expansn of the Rsia’s “gay propaganda” law to clu adults last December, upled wh the crackdown by the Rsian Feral Service for Supervisn of Communitns, Informatn Technology and Mass Media, abbreviated as Roskomnadzor, on any webs and on popular phone apps that ter to LGBTQ people, she has now begun efforts earnt to leave the untry. The proposals prohib sharg posive and even ntral rmatn about lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people, and publicly displayg non-heterosexual orientatns, wh hefty f for nonpliance.

PROTTS, BOYTT LLS AS ANGER GROWS OVER RSIA ANTI-GAY PROPAGANDA LAWS

The origal “gay propaganda” ban, troduced 2013, purported to protect children om “propaganda, ” broadly fed to mean any posive or ntral pictn or discsn of non-heterosexual relatns. The draft legislatn classifi displays of non-heterosexual relatns or orientatn as “rmatn harmful to children’s health and velopment” and provis that webs and other onle sourc hostg rmatn about lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people n be blocked.

“The 2013 ‘gay propaganda’ law was an unabashed example of polil homophobia, and the new draft legislatn amplifi that broar and harsher ways, ” said Tanya Loksha, associate Europe and Central Asia director at Human Rights Watch. The 2013 “gay propaganda, ” law has been extensively ed by the ernment to stifle pro-LGBT events and to shutdown anizatns and onle media. The vio is meant to be promotg nstutnal reform, which among other thgs clus the amendment of Article 72 to fe marriage as the “unn between a man and a woman” vio, which sparked ternatnal backlash, is a hypothetil documentary-style vlog set 2035, when Rsia has evintly rejected the proposed nstutnal chang and gay people have been given the right to adopt.

LGBT HATE CRIM DOUBLE RSIA AFTER BAN ON 'GAY PROPAGANDA'

The distrght child is troduced by his adoptive father to his “new mother”, the father’s gay partner, who prents the boy wh a drs. Actor Alexanr Filimonenko, who stars as the gay partner the vio, has sce issued a statement revealg that he will be votg agast the proposed amendments.