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Contents:

• MAXIM RSIA'S LIST OF 'GAYS WE RPECT' PRAIS LGBT STARS WHO 'REMA REAL MEN'
• GAY MAN RSIA FORCED TO HIDG OVER YOUTUBE TERVIEW
• WHY RSIA TURNED AGAST THE GAYS
• RSIA TO GAYS: SHUT UP AND DISAPPEAR
• 1 5 RSIANS WANT GAYS AND LBIANS 'ELIMATED,' SURVEY FDS

MAXIM RSIA'S LIST OF 'GAYS WE RPECT' PRAIS LGBT STARS WHO 'REMA REAL MEN'

The European Court of Human Rights led 2017 that the 2013 law is discrimatory, promot homophobia and vlat the European Conventn on Human Rights.

GAY MAN RSIA FORCED TO HIDG OVER YOUTUBE TERVIEW

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. Homosexualy was crimalized Rsia 1993, but homophobia and discrimatn is still rife.

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.

The untry as a whole has a reputatn of profound homophobia. NewsMaxim Rsia's list of 'gays we rpect' prais LGBT stars who 'rema real men'The Rsian versn of Maxim released a ntroversial list of gay celebri who n be "fiven" for their sexual Rsia's list of gay men who n be "fiven" is beg taken as a backhand pliment, at btNeil Patrick Harris, Freddie Mercury and Sir Ian McKellen are among the select group of male celebri Maxim Rsia chose to clu their recent list of 'Gays We Rpect.

WHY RSIA TURNED AGAST THE GAYS

' (Screenshot/)Rsian Lord of the Rgs fans who e Maxim magaze as a moral and ethil pass should be pleased to note that is now A-OK, by the publitn's standards, to rpect actor Ian McKellen as a "real man" and fellow human award-wng Brish thpian, known to lns as Gandalf the wizard or X-Men's Mago, tops Maxim Rsia's recently-released list of men the magaze has "fiven" for beg homosexual.

There are gays who have earned our rpect and the right to rema real men our ey. "Includg McKellen, a total of ten very famo men ma the cut:Brish edian Stephen FryIrish playwright and novelist Osr WilQueen ontman Freddie MercuryFrench actor Jean MaraisFamed mathematician Alan TurgFight Club thor Chuck Palahni​Judas Prit rocker Rob HalfordMonty Python's Graham ChapmanAmerin actor and TV host Neil Patrick Harris"We weren't sure about cludg Neil Patrick Harris the list — after all, he clared himself a 'happy gay' 2006, " reads a blurb unr Harris's the actor's How I Met Your Mother character, Barney Stson, as the reason for Harris's cln, the magaze wr that "'s impossible not to rpect someone who elevated the hunt for girls to a te art, who systematized all the tricks and techniqu and created the 'Bro Co.

"Halford was siarly held up as proof that "if you're ol enough, don't matter what your orientatn is, " while Fry was emed "the livg embodiment of the ia that one n be openly gay and a sensible person at the same time. "His creativy brought so much joy, that we are willg to five him anythg"Rsia and gay rightsHomosexualy was legalized Rsia more than two s ago, but is timated that jt 1% of the untry's LGBT populatn liv openly due to the discrimatn and sometim vlence gay people passg of an "anti-gay" propaganda law ahead of 2014's Sochi Olympics brought the issue to a head on the world stage, spurrg ternatnal protts and triggerg even more asslts on gay men and women wh Rsia (asslts that don't unt as hate crim unr Rsian law.

RSIA TO GAYS: SHUT UP AND DISAPPEAR

Wh the untry's LGBT muny facg so much hostily, Maxim Rsia's list of "Gays We Approve" stck many onle as a parody? An olive branch offered to gay Rsians?

Rsian Maxim published a list of 'fiven' gay celebri <a href="></a> &gt; Fivens for what? &mdash;@LisaCVeInspired by Maxim Rsia's list of gay people they five, I have started a list of all the heteros I five. Image source, RtersThe ntroversial Rsian ban agast promotg so-lled "gay propaganda" looks set to be extend to all move reprents a tougheng of an existg 2013 law, which mak providg rmatn about beg LGBT to children a crimal nvicted face large f for promotg what Rsia lls "non-tradnal sexual relatns" ial approval of the extensn was voted through by the Rsian State Duma unanimoly.

1 5 RSIANS WANT GAYS AND LBIANS 'ELIMATED,' SURVEY FDS

Unr the proposal, rmatn about "non-tradnal liftyl" or "the rejectn of fay valu" would be nsired legally the same as pornography, the promotn of vlence, or stokg racial, ethnic and relig also bans the "propaganda of paedophilia" - which the Rsian ernment often nflat wh beg gay. Another element of the extensns prohibs rmatn which might "e mors to sire to change their sex", a reference to transgenr enacted, the law would allow any rmatn on the ter discsg LGBT topics to be blocked and films emed to nta posive pictns of beg gay to be banned. Khshte, an MP om Mr Put's Uned Rsia Party, told the Duma that the "special operatn" - what the Rsian ernment sists on llg s war Ukrae - is happeng "not only on the battlefield, but also the mds and souls of people" rhetoric follows that of the Rsian print, who has ma beg anti-gay a rnerstone of his domtic agenda and thorarian speech annexg four Ukraian terrori last month, Mr Put ranted about fai wh a "parent number one and a parent number two" - what has been terpreted as a cricism of same-sex fai.

He has portrayed Rsia's war Ukrae as a battle between those who support pro-Wtern gay pri events, and those who reject on this story.

Chechen lear: 'We don't have any gays'. A gay Rsian man is hidg after Rsian thori opened a crimal se over a YouTube vio which he was terviewed by children, a se that has drawn attentn om human-rights activists.