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. 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.

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

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

Livg Rsia as a Gay Man. The procs of enterg the gay club Голубая Устрица remd me of a speakeasy om the 1920s.

RSIA TO GAYS: SHUT UP AND DISAPPEAR

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

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.

GAY MAN RSIA FORCED TO HIDG OVER YOUTUBE TERVIEW

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. Thoands of members of the LGBTQ+ muny are fleeg Rsia’s anti-gay laws.

“My parents are very nservative and they don’t believe gay people should exist, ” said Max, who didn’t disclose his last name for fear of retaliatn agast his parents who live St. Most of his iends are the closet or fled the untry — and many of them, he said, were vlently attacked by anti-gay groups before they left. Thoands of members of the LGBTQ+ muny are fleeg Rsia due to anti-gay laws.

6 WAYS TO HELP GAY RSIANS SEEK ASYLUM THE U.S.

A survey published 2020 by Mosw-based non-ernmental rearch anizatn the Levada Center, found that about 30% of Rsians wanted to isolate gay people om society. One of the rearchers, Ekatera Kochega, told NBC News that many Rsians “would not want to see gay people existg. Although is not illegal to be an LGBTQ+ person Rsia, a ago the Kreml passed a so-lled “gay propaganda law” banng the distributn of rmatn about gay relatnships among mors.

Maksim and Dmrii say they n’t wa to marry and start a fay, somethg that they, as gay men, wouldn’t be able to experience back home. As Rsia ntu to flounr Ukrae, wh attempts to pture the small town of Bakhmut turng to a grisly reenactment of the Battle of Verdun, and Kreml propagandists lurchg back and forth between hysteril swagger and the five stag of grief, the Rsian polil tablishment has cid to tackle what’s really important: a natnal “Don’t Say Gay” law.

THE 5 BEST MOSW GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS MOSW

A bill that outlaws “LGBT propaganda”—fed so broadly as to ver not only gay or transgenr rights advocy but potentially all public exprsns of “nontradnal” sexualy or genr inty—passed the State Duma on November 24 and was approved by the upper hoe of Rsia’s fake legislature, the Council of Feratns, last Wednday.

” (Thk of as the Really Don’t Say Gay Law. ) But do rell Soviet-era censorship unr which any mentn of Tchaikovsky’s homosexualy was scbbed om books and films about the great poser’s life, while bgraphil prefac to Soviet edns of Osr Wil cloaked the reason for his imprisonment such phemisms as “transgrsns agast moraly.

A GAY DATG APP IS HELPG TO HOE QUEER PEOPLE FLEEG UKRAE

” Ocsnally, foreign books wh gay characters, such as Iris Murdoch’s 1973 novel The Black Prce, slipped past the censor’s vigilant eye. But there uld have been no qutn, for stance, of publishg Jam Baldw’s gay-themed masterpiece Gvanni’s Room, even though Baldw was acclaimed the official Soviet media as a fighter agast Amerin racism; the novel had to wa until 2007 for s first Rsian edn.