LGBT Ukraians terrified of Rsia's war on gay and transgenr people - Los Angel Tim

Contents:

• ‘I’M AAID FOR MY FUTURE’: PROPOSED LAWS THREATEN GAY LIFE RSIA
• THE GAY WORLD WAR? INSI PUT’S WARPED REALY
• INSI THE IRON CLOSET: WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE GAY PUT'S RSIA
• YOUNG AND GAY PUT'S RSIA
• PUT EXPANDS ‘GAY PROPAGANDA’ BAN, THREATENG LGBTQ CRACKDOWN
• WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT RSIA’S SO-CALLED ‘GAY PROPAGANDA’ BILL
• 'THERE WILL BE DAD AND MUM': PUT L OUT RSIA LEGALIZG GAY MARRIAGE
• RSIA BANS IMAGE 'HTG' THAT PUT IS GAY
• PUT’S PRI? SIX FAMO GAY SONS OF RSIA
• RSIA'S VLADIMIR PUT 'IS GAY' CLAIMS NTROVERSIAL NEW BGRAPHY
• RSIAN PRIT SAYS UKRAE WAR IS ABOUT RELIGN, ATTACKS 'GAY PARAS'
• HACKERS TAKE OVER MEDIA TO BROADST “GAY PUT” MEME. IT’S ILLEGAL RSIA.
• PUT SHAR THOUGHTS ON SHOWERG WH GAY MEN AND MENSTAL CYCL

‘I’M AAID FOR MY FUTURE’: PROPOSED LAWS THREATEN GAY LIFE RSIA

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 GAY WORLD WAR? INSI PUT’S WARPED REALY

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.

But the fear generated by the legislatn is already leadg to censorship: onle cemas have leted LGBT-themed films and TV seri and eded out gay scen. In one episo of the highly-acclaimed HBO seri The Whe Lot, a Rsian streamg service changed the word "gay" to "man", eded a towel onto one male character's bare backsi and leted a gay sex scene, jt days after the law was ptn, The book Shattered, about the romance between two men, has been heavily redacted RsiaBooks, too, are beg censored.

The text has been redacted by the publisher, wh whole sectns replaced wh black of the -thors of the law, an openly homophobic natnalist lled Valy Milonov, agre to speak to me via violk. And particularly where that base of support is close to relig views, there is a lot of crossover there that works for polil opportunists who are g official forms of homophobia to fe their polil That is Dan Healey, profsor of Rsian history at the Universy of Oxford.

INSI THE IRON CLOSET: WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE GAY PUT'S RSIA

He portrayed the war as a stggle between those seekg to reject Wtern valu and gay pri paras held as, his words, “loyalty tt[s]” to Wtern ernments.

Kreml officials seized on the ia of banng “gay propaganda, ” takg an obscure law that had been gag steam regnal legislatur sce 2006 and passg at the feral level 2013. The vaguely word law prohibs any discsns of homosexualy plac or formats that may be accsible to mors, cludg the media and onle.

Acrdg to Rsian media monorg anizatn Medialogiya, reports about homosexualy skyrocketed om jt 11 2011 to more than 160 2013. The media verage that followed the passage of the gay propaganda law 2013 set the tone for the rise hate crim that was to follow.

YOUNG AND GAY PUT'S RSIA

In 2016, Dmry Tsilik, a proment art and culture cric who was gay, was stabbed more than 30 tim by a man he met on an onle datg se. ”The anizers had good reason to be wary: Life has been challengg for gay Rsians sce the law passed, as the ernment has treated gay life as a Wtern import that is harmful to tradnal Rsian valu and Rsia’s Parliament is set to pass a legislative package that would ban all “gay propaganda, ” signalg an even more difficult perd ahead for a stigmatized segment of laws would prohib reprentatn of L. Exprsn wh s ratnale for the war Ukrae, sistg that Rsia is fightg not jt Ukrae but all of NATO, a Wtern alliance that reprents a threat to the Put drove home that argument a speech last week, sayg that the Wt n have “dozens of genrs and gay pri paras, ” but that should not try to spread the “trends” elsewhere.

PUT EXPANDS ‘GAY PROPAGANDA’ BAN, THREATENG LGBTQ CRACKDOWN

Olenichev said that though the police do not track hate crim agast queer people, he and his lleagu have noticed an crease clients who have suffered inty-based attacks sce rhetoric behd anti-gay laws may have dangero nsequenc for gay Rsians, said Vladimir Komov, a lawyer wh the group Delo 2013 law was promoted as protectg children, while the new on “seek to prohib gay propaganda as a danger to the state system, ” fg as extremism, he Lunchenkov said the proposed laws uld leave gay people “aaid to go to medil clics to get treatment or ttg” for sexually transmted diseas. Lawmakers llg gays a danger on a par wh war “is more funny than sry, ” he now, gay Rsians and their alli have found exprsn spe rtrictive laws. A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 7 of the New York edn wh the headle: Life for Gay Rsians Is About to Get Worse.

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

Muny further unrground, s opponents new law also ntas a ban on propaganda for pedophilia, and a leadg pennt news se, Mza, said the batn “looks like an attempt to put homosexualy and pedophilia the same row. This is where the gay propaganda kicks : It’s all a part of a dastardly plan, he says, by Wtern el to stop the natural propagatn of humany. “People are beg doctrated gay marriage so they don’t multiply, ” Kovalch said, “and a uple of generatns there won’t be anybody.

It’s agast a New World Orr of Bilrberg and Davos el tryg to geilly engeer a subservient humany wh gay marriag the Wt and killer vis the rt of the world. They are alg stead wh a someone steeped nspiracy theori, who believ he is fightg a csa agast gay marriag, geilly modified mosquo, and the Bilrbergs. The ntroversial law was met wh cricism and ridicule Wtern untri, cludg a lg the European Court of Human Rights 2017 that stated Rsia’s “gay propaganda law” is discrimatory, promot homophobia and vlat the European Conventn on Human Rights.

'THERE WILL BE DAD AND MUM': PUT L OUT RSIA LEGALIZG GAY MARRIAGE

On the domtic ont, the ments were aimed at jtifyg Ukrae’s vasn as necsary not only to rcue Rsian speakers om discrimatn—the official reason behd the “special operatn”—but to protect Rsian children om turng gay. On the social media app Telegram, a Rsian woman recently posted the views of an acquatance whose son was sent to fight Ukrae: It is “sry, of urse, ” she quoted, but “better he di over there, than that NATO nquers and mak him gay.

For years Kreml propagandists have spun outlandish theori that NATO tends to unleash a gay revolutn Rsia and lead Rsian society toward moral turpu and spirual cle. “People are beg doctrated gay marriage so they don’t multiply, ” he said, “and a uple of generatns there won’t be anybody. Those who are drawn to the abundance and eedoms the Wt mt pass a “specific tt of loyalty” to be clud the Wtern alliance—anize a gay pri para, Kirill said a sermon.

RSIA BANS IMAGE 'HTG' THAT PUT IS GAY

Put’s public homophobia has a foreign-policy dimensn too, hopg to attract support among far-right segments the Uned Stat and Europe, or at the very least exacerbate tensns between liberals and nservativ and between them and their ernments. “Put has managed to take issu that were not margal per se, but were not issu people would vote on, like the LGBTQ rights, and ma them mastream, high on the polil agenda, ” said Roberto Muzzetta, a member of Arcigay, an Italian non-ernmental anizatn workg on gay rights.

Dec 5 (Rters) - Rsian Print Vladimir Put on Monday signed a law expandg Rsia's rtrictns on the promotn of what lls "LGBT propaganda", effectively outlawg any public exprsn of LGBT behavur or liftyle the new law, which wins Rsia's terpretatn of what qualifi as "LGBT propaganda", any actn or the spreadg of any rmatn that is nsired an attempt to promote homosexualy public, onle, or films, books or advertisg, uld cur a heavy law expands Rsia's prev law agast LGBT propaganda that had banned the "monstratn" of LGBT behavur to as the Kreml exerts creased prsure on mory groups and opponents of Put at home, quashg pennt media groups and further stiflg ee speech as Mosw ramps up a -long mpaign to promote what says are "tradnal" valu. Authori have already ed the existg law to stop gay pri march and ta gay rights groups say the new law is tend to drive so-lled "non-tradnal" LGBT liftyl practised by lbians, gay men, bisexuals and transgenr people out of public life altogether. Move outlaws portrayal of gay relatns books, films, mediaMeasure expands law to ver adults as well as childrenPeople wave rabow flags durg a rally Sat Petersburg 2017.

PUT’S PRI? SIX FAMO GAY SONS OF RSIA

Photographer: Olga Maltseva/AFP/Getty ImagRsian Print Vladimir Put signed to law on Monday a sweepg ban on the posive portrayal of gay relatnships books, films, the media and the Inter, regardls of ban on “propaganda of non-tradnal sexual relatns” expands Rsia’s 2013 law that prohibed the promotn of homosexualy to children. On Monday, Rsian Print Vladimir Put signed to effect the “gay propaganda” bill, which Rsian lawmakers unanimoly approved November.

RSIA'S VLADIMIR PUT 'IS GAY' CLAIMS NTROVERSIAL NEW BGRAPHY

The new “gay propaganda” bill expands on existg legislatn that was adopted by the Kreml 2013 to promote “tradnal” fay valu Rsia.

RSIAN PRIT SAYS UKRAE WAR IS ABOUT RELIGN, ATTACKS 'GAY PARAS'

” Some lawmakers have also shown support for an pennt bill that would make any so-lled “gay propaganda” a crimal offense, acrdg to the Associated Prs. Petersburg and Mosw have been marked by state vlence and arrts, while an crease the number of attacks on LGBTQ people throughout Rsia—both by dividuals and by anized homophobic groups—creased after the 2013 law, acrdg to a 2014 report published by Human Rights Watch.

Read More: Rsia’s Anti-Gay Laws: How a Dutch Activist Got Cght the Crosshairs How are human rights advot rpondg to this law? In 2017, the European Court of Human Rights led that Rsia’s “gay propaganda law” was discrimatory, promoted homophobia, and vlated the European Conventn on Human Rights and that “served no legimate public tert. ” The urt rejected suggtns that public bate on LGBTQ issu uld fluence children to bee homosexual or that threatened public morals.

”Over the last two s, Rsian Print Vladimir Put has waged an all-out asslt on the LGBTQ muny, amg as part of a larger mpaign to protect Rsia’s “tradnal culture” om what he scrib as an onslght of morn valu promoted by the has lled genr fluidy “a crime agast humany, ” and equated homosexualy wh pedophilia. A “gay propaganda” law passed Rsia 2013 ma illegal to promote gay rights and has been ed to jail activists and shut down LGBTQ support groups. And durg a seri of anti-gay purg Rsia’s Mlim-majory Chechen Republic, which officials kidnapped, tortured and some s killed men spected of havg sex wh other men, the Kreml turned a bld the same time, life for LGBTQ people Ukrae has slowly been, wh tens of thoands of Rsian troops encirclg major Ukraian ci, gay, lbian and transgenr people are worried about what a Rsian takeover might mean for them.

HACKERS TAKE OVER MEDIA TO BROADST “GAY PUT” MEME. IT’S ILLEGAL RSIA.

As Put has ma gay people the boogeymen for all of Rsia’s ills, Reid said, he has also fueled “a monstrable crease discrimatn and vlence. (Courty Yura Dvizhon) “If we were unr Rsian le, we’d have to shut our mouths, we wouldn’t be able to drs how we want, we would never have gay pri, ” said Yura Dvizhon, 29, a well-known Ukraian director. (Daniel Leal / AFP via Getty Imag) Ukrae was never a utopia for gays and transgenr people, Dvizhon marriage is illegal Ukrae, LGBTQ people are not protected by anti-discrimatn laws, and the fluential Christian Orthodox Church views homosexualy as a s.

Last year’s annual gay pri para Kyiv drew 7, 000 people — a victory, even if police were lled to fend off anti-gay protters.

PUT SHAR THOUGHTS ON SHOWERG WH GAY MEN AND MENSTAL CYCL

”While there are still ncrete laws — an anti-discrimatn bill foremost among them — that the natn’s LGBTQ muny is wag for, everybody knows that the suatn for gay people Rsia is “much, much, much worse, ” said Natsya Kosach, a lbian DJ Kyiv. She believ anti-gay and trans discrimatn has s roots the Orthodox Church but also the Soviet Unn, which broke up Soviet society, nformy was prized. Vladimir Put has signed a law expandg rtrictns on the promotn of what lls "LGBT propaganda", effectively outlawg any public exprsn of LGBT behavur or liftyle the new law, Rsia has wined s terpretatn of what qualifi as "LGBT propaganda" means that any actn or the spreadg of any rmatn that is nsired an attempt to promote homosexualy public, onle, or films, books or advertisg, uld cur a heavy law expands Rsia's prev law agast LGBT propaganda that had banned the "monstratn" of LGBT behavur to as the Kreml exerts creased prsure on mory groups and opponents of the Rsian print at home, quashg pennt media groups and further stiflg ee speech as Mosw ramps up a -long mpaign to promote what says are "tradnal" valu.