Mosw Court Upholds 100-Year Ban On Gay Pri Events : The Two-Way : NPR

Contents:

• GAY PARAS BANNED MOSW FOR 100 YEARS
• RSIAN CHURCH LEAR APPEARS TO BLAME GAY PRI PARAS FOR UKRAE WAR
• RSIAN NSTUTN CHANGE ENDS HOP FOR GAY MARRIAGE
• HUMAN RIGHTS FIRST CONMNS DECISN TO BAN MOSW GAY PRI
• MOSW PATRIARCHATE SPEAKS OUT AGAST J'LEM GAY PRI
• ELTON JOHN AGREED TO ATTEND MOSW GAY PRI RALLY PUT HOAX LL
• MOSW COURT UPHOLDS 100-YEAR BAN ON GAY PRI EVENTS
• PATRIARCH KIRILL: RSIAN VASN DUE TO GAY-PRI PARAS
• MOSW GAY PRI – ARRTS & VLENCE
• CY OF MOSW BANS ‘GAY PRI’ PARAS SPE URT ORR TO ALLOW THEM

GAY PARAS BANNED MOSW FOR 100 YEARS

Image ptn, Nikolay Alexeyev has been mpaigng for years for the right to stage gay paras RsiaMosw's top urt has upheld a ban on gay pri march the Rsian pal for the next 100 years. Earlier Rsia's bt-known gay rights mpaigner, Nikolay Alexeyev, had gone to urt hopg to overturn the cy uncil's ban on gay had asked for the right to stage such paras for the next 100 also oppos St Petersburg's ban on spreadg "homosexual propaganda".

The European Court of Human Rights has told Rsia to pay him Friday he said he would go back to the European Court Strasbourg to ph for a regnn that Mosw's ban on gay pri march - past, prent and future - was Mosw cy ernment argu that the gay para would risk g public disorr and that most Mv do not support such an September, the Council of Europe - the ma human rights watchdog Europe - will exame Rsia's rponse to a prev European Court lg on the gay rights issue, Rsian media report. The head of Rsia’s Orthodox Church appeared to blame liberal Wtern valu — drawg particular attentn to gay pri paras — for Rsia’s vasn of Ukrae his Sunday sermon. But Patriarch Kirill said the war is about “which si of God humany will be on” the divi between supporters of gay pri events — or the Wtern ernments that allow them — and their opponents Rsian-backed eastern Ukrae.

RSIAN CHURCH LEAR APPEARS TO BLAME GAY PRI PARAS FOR UKRAE WAR

That's why orr to jo the club of those untri, you have to have a gay pri para, ” he said his Fivens Sunday sermon.

RSIAN NSTUTN CHANGE ENDS HOP FOR GAY MARRIAGE

The Rsian church lear characterized gay pri paras as a “loyalty tt” to Wtern ernments, which Ukrae’s breakaway republics have “fundamentally rejected.

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.

The nned cktail is named after a lloquialism given to the popular mixed drk (vodka and soda) orred at bars by the gay muny. “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.

HUMAN RIGHTS FIRST CONMNS DECISN TO BAN MOSW GAY PRI

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.

MOSW PATRIARCHATE SPEAKS OUT AGAST J'LEM GAY PRI

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. 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. Dozens of other activists received ath threats om an obscure anti-gay group that claimed rponsibily for the killg of Grigoryeva, who was stabbed repeatedly and showed signs of 2017, reports of extrajudicial arrts, torture and killgs of gay men the republic of Chechnya drew ternatnal year, Andrei Vaganov and Yevgeny Yerofeyev, a uple raisg two adopted children, had to flee Rsia after a doctor reported them to police and thori opened a crimal se.

ELTON JOHN AGREED TO ATTEND MOSW GAY PRI RALLY PUT HOAX LL

Adoptn by same-sex upl is banned Rsia, but Vaganov had applied as a sgle Olenichev, a lawyer wh the Comg Out gay rights group, said there are stanc of tolerance by some urts. He said he has worked on seven ctody s which judg refed to take away ctody, sayg that sexual orientatn don’t play a role a child’s he is ncerned that the nstutnal chang will enurage anti-gay views.

“Our society really looks up to what the ernment do, so any kds of public actns promotg homophobia, transphobia, biphobia, many people may perceive as a ll for actn.

MOSW COURT UPHOLDS 100-YEAR BAN ON GAY PRI EVENTS

”Print Vladimir Put has rejected cricism of the nstutnal amendments and the gay propaganda said that some untri, “crimal law provisns still exist unr which people of nontradnal sexual orientatn n be persecuted crimally, as was the Soviet Unn. Th were two of my primary profsnal terts joed: I am workg on a book about the history of gay Washgton, and my day job nsists of analyzg transatlantic relatns. One don’t have to be a supporter of same-sex marriage or gay adoptn or any other ntent social issue to believe that the right of people to monstrate and speak their md is sacrosanct a mocratic society.

While gay-rights monstratns the Baltics were once met wh fec-flgg unterprotters 2006, this month’s celebratn was unmarked by any such ugls. Sce 2013, when the Rsian Duma unanimoly passed a law prohibg the “promotn of nontradnal sexual relatns” to mors, has been illegal for any Rsian—homosexual or heterosexual—to speak posively about gay people or their rights.

) Rsians who advote gay rights are arrted and fed, LGBTQ webs are blocked, and a steady exod of gay people has trickled out of Rsia over the past six years. Countri that overe their totalarian pasts—as the Baltic stat have admirably done, sheddg their mand enomi and thorarian polil stctur for membership NATO and the European Unn—will progrs toward regnizg the basic digny of their gay and lbian cizens. ” Golubeva is jt the send openly gay polician Latvia, followg the untry’s foreign mister, who me out 2014 and is still servg.

PATRIARCH KIRILL: RSIAN VASN DUE TO GAY-PRI PARAS

Keenly aware of the anxieti many socially nservative people the former Soviet space harbor about homosexualy, the Kreml explos the issue for geopolil aims. The spir of the Stonewall uprisg  New York, which occurred 50 years ago this week, liv on the streets of Tbilisi: On June 14, gay-rights activists monstrated outsi the ma ernment buildg to mand police protectn for an upg Pri march.

Up to 2, 000 anti-LGBT protters broke up a Gay Pri ftival the Geian pal, Tbilisi, on July 8, scufflg wh police and stroyg props, cludg rabow flags and plards, though there were no reports of juri. In July, about a week after the Kreml phed through nstutnal amendments that clu fg marriage as a unn between a man and woman, Tsvetkova was fed for a send time unr the untry’s notor “gay propaganda” law and forced to pay 75, 000 Rubl ($1000) over her lorful illtratns of same-sex upl and their young children. Mizula lost support bee of the “tremendo level of public outrage about the bill’s homophobia and transphobia, ” Jonny Dzhibladze, a ordator at Vykhod (“Comg Out”), a St.

A year later Put passed the so-lled “gay propaganda” law, which bans rmatn emed to promote homosexualy to mors.

MOSW GAY PRI – ARRTS & VLENCE

They urged the thori to protect the activist, who says she has received ath threats om an anonymo homophobic work lled Saw that publish the nam and ntacts of LGBTQ people, and lls for vlence agast them. In 2009, Rsia’s most proment opposn figure Alexei Navalny suggted that gay people uld “olic” a rdoned stadium rather than public a Pri Para.

More recently, June, he acced the ernment of gog “pletely crazy” after pro-Kreml media group Patrt released a homophobic polil advert.

But as a printial ndidate 2018, she clud same-sex civil unns and the liftg of the “gay propaganda” law her polil program. ”The legislatn has been ed to stop gay pri march and ta gay rights said durg the mpaign to change the nstutn that he would not let the tradnal notn of a mother and father be subverted by what he lled “parent number 1” and “parent number 2” Friday, the head of the Women’s Unn of Rsia, Ekatera Lakhova, told Put that she feared an ice cream wh the brand name ‘Rabow’, as well as other multi-loured advertisg, uld nstute propaganda for non-tradnal valu and have a harmful effect on children, the RIA news agency reported. New York, NY—Human Rights First nmns the cisn by the Mosw thori—issued on the Internatnal Day Agast Homophobia—to ny permissn for a Mosw gay pri event.

CY OF MOSW BANS ‘GAY PRI’ PARAS SPE URT ORR TO ALLOW THEM

We ll on the Mosw Cy Hall to rensir the latt ban on Mosw Pri le wh the recent European Court of Human Rights verdict that upheld the right of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) Rsians to anize public events acrdance to the Rsian Constutn.

Gay pri paras have e to symbolize the ristance to tolerance and bigotry that surround LGBT people their daily liv. Mosw Pri has never been officially permted by the thori Mosw, where the cy’s longtime mayor, Yuri Luzhkov, ed hateful populist rhetoric agast the untry’s LGBT cizens—whose liftyl he lled “satanic”— and banned gay pri events om 2006-2010. In October 2010, the European Court of Human Rights issued a verdict affirmg that the 164 bans on gay pri march and events between 2006 and 2008 were vlatn of the nstutnally protected right to eedom of assembly.