It has been almost a sce the reprsive laws on “foreign agents” (2012) and “gay propaganda” (2013) were adopted. At the time of their adoptn, fenrs of the rights of LGBTI+ people were at the foreont of Rsia’s human rights movement and beme one of the first targets of state persecutn. Wh the crease
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RSIA IS REPORTEDLY INVTIGATG AN ALLEGED GAY PURGE CHECHNYA
It has been almost a sce the reprsive laws on “foreign agents” (2012) and “gay propaganda” (2013) were adopted.
Wh the crease polil reprsns me an crease homophobia propagated by the thori. In 2013, as preparatns for the “gay propaganda” law were unrway, Levada Center soclogist Aleksey Levison wrote the followg about the rults of a poll that intified a high level of homophobia Rsian society:.
RSIA’S ANTI-GAY CRACKDOWN
Homophobia always go hand hand wh fascism.