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Contents:

• IN RSIA, VLENT VIOS SHOW A STARTLG NEW FORM OF GAY BULLYG
• CHECHNYA GAY PURGE: FOOTAGE TAKEN SI PRISON SHOWS WHERE MEN WERE 'TAED AND TORTURED'
• ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
• GAY MAN RSIA FORCED TO HIDG OVER YOUTUBE TERVIEW
• VIOS SHOW WISPREAD ABE OF GAYS RSIA, ADVOT SAY
• ADOPTED BOY SEXUALLY ABED BY GAY FATHERS

IN RSIA, VLENT VIOS SHOW A STARTLG NEW FORM OF GAY BULLYG

A screen shot om one of a seri of homophobic vios posted on the Inter appears to show a young Rsian gay man beg forced to drk ure. Other victims were known homosexuals who were forcibly picked up off the stated goal of the vios was to "cure" the young men of their activists say such footage is a sign that homophobia Rsia is not only beg more prevalent, but also more aggrsive. Campaigners blame this on a ntroversial new law outlawg so-lled "homosexual propaganda" that was passed unanimoly by the Rsian State Duma and signed to law by Print Vladimir Put last month.

Nikolai Alekseyev, founr of Gay Pri Rsia, believ the law sends the wrong signals to society and the mds of some legimiz vlence agast lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) muni.

"They have received signals om the hight officials the state -- the Duma, the print -- that basilly you n do whatever you want if ncerns gay people bee they are not first-class cizens; they are send-class or even third-class. "Ined, groups like the one Kamensk-Uralsky -- which belongs to a Rsia-wi work operatg unr the banner "Occupy Pedophilia" -- have so far enjoyed almost total impuny for their treatment of homosexuals. But the group has sce expand s foc and is now targetg young homosexuals.

CHECHNYA GAY PURGE: FOOTAGE TAKEN SI PRISON SHOWS WHERE MEN WERE 'TAED AND TORTURED'

Members of the group say they see homosexualy and pedophilia as morally Pedophilia was found by Maksim Martskevich, an ultranatnalist who has served a three-year prison sentence for cg ethnic hatred. Degteryov has also passed rmatn about Occupy Pedophilia's harassment of gays -- cludg photos and vios -- to the Washgton D. The graphic imag, which were posted on the popular webse and elsewhere, have turned gay rights Rsia to a e celebre the Uned Stat.

Wrer Dan Savage, founr of the It Gets Better mpaign, which bats the bullyg of gay teens, has lled for a boytt of Rsian vodka. In a sea of nned cktails, Gay Water wants to stand out. In other words, where Bud Light has buckled unr prsure as bigotry grows agast the LGBTQ+ muny, Gay Water’s creator Spencer Hodson wants his new boozy brand to be the anthis of that.

“The key issue that Bud Light tapped to was the fact that they didn’t unrstand their re dience and know enough about them,” Hodson, a gay man, told CNN about the ntroversy that began when the Anhser-Bch beer brand sent fluencer Dylan Mulvaney a n of beer. Gay Water, however, is out and proud. The nned cktail is named after a lloquialism given to the popular mixed drk (vodka and soda) orred at bars by the gay muny.

ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL

“Puttg a product wh the word gay the tle is reprentatn self,” which he hop reclaims the word om the negativy ’s sometim associated wh. He thought of creatg Gay Water about a year ago while on a vatn wh his iend that had got a job wh the beverage dtry. The two chatted about the limed amount of gay people wh , and wh Hodson burnt out om his tradnal day job tech, started the nned cktail.

GAY MAN RSIA FORCED TO HIDG OVER YOUTUBE TERVIEW

Hodson built up a strong social media followg on TikTok and Instagram durg Covid-19 and is g some of the money om that (as well as om iends and fay) to help fund Gay Water. “Gay is an umbrella term and the ia behd the brand is to be as clive as possible, which means we want alli, we want straight people to be part of this muny we’re buildg.”. For now, Gay Water is sold largely onle (wh a few retailers) and four sugar-ee flavors — watermelon, lime, peach and grapeu — at lnch.

VIOS SHOW WISPREAD ABE OF GAYS RSIA, ADVOT SAY

Gay Water might not have the ep pockets pared to s petors, like Whe Claw, but “even at small sle, pani of many siz are havg succs makg spir-based seltzers and premixed cktails,” Bryan Roth, an analyst for Feel Goods Company and edor of the alhol beverage newsletter, Sightl+, told CNN.

“There’s lots of space the spir-based seltzer tegory which Gay Water n play, pecially if the brand n offer a cultural or emotnal nnectn that will feel more excg than the prospect of another peapple-flavored vodka seltzer om natnal or ternatnal rporatns,” Roth said.

Of urse, other drks e the word “gay,” too, cludg Gay Beer and So Gay Rosé, Hodson noted, which are also tryg to reach the queer muny and offer them an alternative the straight-domated space. Adam* said was dangero to e out as gay his home untry and feared beg forced to an arranged marriage wh a said he was "so lucky" to wed his soulmate, Ray, Manchter and wish everyone uld marry who they love.

ADOPTED BOY SEXUALLY ABED BY GAY FATHERS

There are more than 60 untri wh laws that crimalise same-sex sexual acts acrdg to the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn, cludg Sdi Arabia. 'Authentilly myself'Ray said he had also stggled growg up gay the 1970s and 80s England, which was "tough" said his relig school "dmmed to you, 'you are gog to hell'" Adam returned home to Sdi Arabia, spe beg more than 3, 000 apart and later rtricted by the Covid-19 panmic, they kept touch daily and the romance years ago, Ray proposed on a vio ll and after succsfully applyg for a UK fiancé visa, Adam moved to Manchter December 2022. Adam said he had been aaid to even wear lours his home untry so the first thg he did when he moved was start to "grow my mullet, got my ears pierced and booked appotments for tattoos" relled how, ntrast, one of his gay iends Sdi had been forced to marry a woman, addg: "It has ed not only his life but the life of his wife.