Rsia to Gays: Shut Up and Disappear - The Bulwark

Contents:

• MOSW’S WAR UKRAE BROUGHT HARSH TACTICS AGAST GAY RSIANS AT HOME
• 'WE'RE NOT HIDG': GAY AND LBIAN RSIANS SAY A CULTURAL SHIFT IS UNRWAY
• RSIA TO GAYS: SHUT UP AND DISAPPEAR
• GAY RSIAN RIVER TRAVEL GUI
• GAY MAN RSIA FORCED TO HIDG OVER YOUTUBE TERVIEW
• 6 WAYS TO HELP GAY RSIANS SEEK ASYLUM THE U.S.
• THE 5 BEST MOSW GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS MOSW
• A GAY DATG APP IS HELPG TO HOE QUEER PEOPLE FLEEG UKRAE

MOSW’S WAR UKRAE BROUGHT HARSH TACTICS AGAST GAY RSIANS AT HOME

(Mary Gelman/VII for The Washgton Post) As Rsian Print Vladimir Put steers Rsia toward beg a closed-off, nservative society, led by “tradnal valu” and bound tightly to the Orthodox Church, wh visns of a “Rsian world” opposn to the nt, amoral Wt, the Rsian parliament has expand Mosw’s official discrimatn agast gays and others of non-heterosexual ia of Rsia as a fenr of tradnal Christian beliefs has been ed to jtify Put’s vasn of Ukrae.

”In December, Put signed legislatn makg illegal to promote or “praise” same-sex relatnships, to publicly exprs non-heterosexual orientatns, or to suggt they are “normal” — expandg a 2013 law that prohibed spreadg “gay propaganda” among mors.

”By ntrast, Ukraian Print Volodymyr Zelensky has opened the door to legalizg same-sex civil unns after the war highlighted a lack of rights and protectns for gay soldiers and their Washgton Post spoke to members of Rsia’s LGBTQ muny to unrstand how the more dranian legislatn has affected their, 21, drag artist“I’ve been dog drag for over two years now, sce I’ve moved to St. Now, for example, if there are a uple of men or a uple of women stg the dience, we n’t joke on any sexual topics bee this would already qualify as ‘gay propaganda. This law equat pedophilia wh homosexualy and cements hatred and tolerance agast society.

'WE'RE NOT HIDG': GAY AND LBIAN RSIANS SAY A CULTURAL SHIFT IS UNRWAY

It’s clear that liv of queer people will be worse as this law basilly tri to say that we are perverts, and that greenlights vlence and homophobia.

RSIA TO GAYS: SHUT UP AND DISAPPEAR

”Sergei Trosh, 40, an openly gay lawmaker St.

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On the other hand, there is a level of anxiety bee I’ve heard that certa homophobic people want to harm me some way. But thankfully that hasn’t happened day parliament approved the bill the send hearg, I wrote a post on my Telegram blog nouncg this discrimatory and homophobic law. Fans of romance, take heed: the trailer for the gay historil drama Firebird has arrived.

GAY MAN RSIA FORCED TO HIDG OVER YOUTUBE TERVIEW

Livg Rsia as a Gay Man. The procs of enterg the gay club Голубая Устрица remd me of a speakeasy om the 1920s. My gay club anecdote serv as a metaphor for LGBT (Lbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgenr) life Rsia as a whole.

Rsian gays and lbians tackle daily dangers which leave ltle time to take pri their, as the Rsian ernment puts , “non-tradnal liftyle.

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” The Rsian homosexual populatn—and even those perceived to be homosexual—do face te dangers, pecially beatgs and ostracizatn.

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However, as far as my experience go, livg as a gay man Rsia is no different than livg as a gay man southern Geia. It’s not acceptable to speak about homosexualy mercurial Peachtree Cy, Geia or metropolan St. Livg as a gay man Rsia is much ls of an adjtment than I origally thought.

The simple fact is that many gays and lbians lead double liv as they hi their te clatns om those clost to I lead my double life, I’m begng to dwell upon what implitns this will have on my aspiratns to the prithood.

Apparently, I had breached Sectn 3 of Rsia’s now famo “gay propaganda bill” which prohibs “The spreadg of rmatn givg a distorted perceptn about the social equaly between tradnal and non-tradnal sexual relatns to mors. He asked me qutns about gay Amerin life rapid-fire succsn, and sadly I had to bear his look of rejectn when I told him that I legally uld say nothg.

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But as a gay Christian, I n pray that they grow up an acceptg ’s to a brighter future.

Petersburg, has also distguished self as most tolerant of the LGBT muny, acrdg to the rults of a recent banned “homosexual propaganda” among mors 2013, leadg the urts to ban gay pri events and public pollg show surgg anti-LGBT sentiment. In recent weeks, thori the North Cs republic of Chechnya have aga been acced of illegally tag and killg gay men and Petersburg me first place among 20 Rsian ci whose rints are the most gay-iendly, acrdg to the Zoom Market agency’s rearch published Saturday. Novosibirsk and Mosw placed send and third, followed by Voronezh, Krasnodar and the oppose end of the rankg, the marketg agency named Saratov, Chelyabsk and Kazan as the three least tolerant Rsian ci toward LGBT Market surveyed 2, 400 rponnts om 20 Rsian ci on how they feel about sexual mori and whether any of their iends are gay.

As a gay man a untry that ma anti-gay iology a foundatn of s anti-Ukrae propaganda, he feared for his life every day. In his seven years as a gay activist, Maysky has never seen Rsian-speakg LGBTQ+ immigrants g to California such great numbers. Petersburg who left Rsia after his parents threatened to sue his therapist who backed him receivg hormone therapy; and Ivan, 18, who is gay, half Rsian and half Ukraian, and “didn’t want to kill people.