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:.
Homophobia always go hand hand wh fascism. And when we speak about sexual eedom, this is a polil qutn, which is where polics ultimately we are evacuatg gay Chechens, when we say that the Chechen ernment mted crim agast humany and the Rsia feral ernment vered this up for them, are we not engaged polil activy? They save Rsian cizens – homosexual, bisexual, transgenr, but still Rsian cizens – and they sudnly end up foreign I had wanted to get rid of foreign fancg, I would probably have done that back when all this was startg.
RSIA’S ANTI-GAY CRACKDOWN
the journalist Karen Shayan, creator of the popular vio channel “Straight Talk Wh Gay People, ” which is about the life of LGBTI+ people and muni Rsia and April 22, 2022, the Mistry of Jtice add Yaroslav Sirotk, a member of the LGBT-movement Callisto om Yaroslavl and one of the ordators of a shelter Armenia for LGBTI+ refuge om Rsia, Ukrae, and Belas, to the registry of “foreign agent” media outlets. On March 10, 2021, upon the remendatn of the district prosecutor’s office, the Ostanko Court prohibed the distributn, on YouTube, of Karen Shayan’s clip “Gay Adoptn: Is this the Rsia you want?