Gay man Rsia forced to hidg over YouTube terview | CNN

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• IS MY FRIEND GAY QUIZ
• RSIAN GAY DU
• GAY MAN RSIA FORCED TO HIDG OVER YOUTUBE TERVIEW
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ON THE STRENGTH OF HIS TV SHOWS, CLUDG RUPL'S DRAG RACE, AND HIS OVERSIZED PERSONALY, RUPL HAS BEE A BEAN GAY, DRAG AND TRANSSEXUAL MUNI.EARLY LIFERUPL WAS BORN RUPL ANDRE CHARL ON NOVEMBER 17, 1960, SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA. HIS PARENTS DIVORCED WHEN RUPL WAS SEVEN, AND HE MOVED TO ATLANTA, GEIA, WH HIS SISTER AND HER HBAND DURG HIS TEENS. RUPL WAS THE ONLY BOY OF HIS PARENTS’ FOUR CHILDREN AND EVENTUALLY BEGAN WEARG HIS SISTERS’ CLOTH AND EXPLORG CROSS-DRSG, EMULATG STARS LIKE {-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN-THICKNS:0.0625REM;TEXT-RATN-LOR:HER;TEXT-UNRLE-OFFSET:0.25REM;LOR:#A00000;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;}{LOR:#595959;TEXT-RATN-LOR:BORR-LK-BODY-HOVER;}DIANA ROSS AND JANE FONDA HIS YOUTH.IN ATLANTA, RUPL ATTEND THE NORTHSI SCHOOL OF PERFORMG ARTS, AND ALTHOUGH HE DIDN’T GRADUATE, WAS A BIG STEP TOWARD GETTG HIS FEET WET THE WORLD OF PERFORMANCE AND, THE END, SHOW BS. IN 1982, RUPL TOOK THE NEXT STEP AND SENT A PHOTO OF HIMSELF TO A LOL TV PROGRAM LLED THE AMERIN MIC SHOW, ASKG TO APPEAR ON AIR. BEFORE LONG, HE WAS APPEARG ON THE SERI REGULARLY, OFTEN WH HIS NEWLY FORMED BAND, RUPL AND THE U-HLS.WIGSTOCK AND H SONG "SUPERMOL (YOU BETTER WORK)"RUPL AND THE U-HLS BROKE UP BEFORE TOO LONG, AND WEE WEE POLE WAS FORMED S PLACE, PERFORMG AROUND ATLANTA. RUPL ALSO MA HIS FIRST MOVE TO ACTG DURG THIS PERD, APPEARG UNCREDED ROL A SERI OF LOW-BUDGET MOVI. WHILE THE APPEARANC DIDN’T HELP RUPL CLIMB THE LADR OF FAME, HE WAS NEVER SHORT ON IAS TO FURTHER HIS REER. IN ONE SUCH PH, RUPL SOLD PICTUR OF HIMSELF AS POSTRDS AND CREATED LTLE BOOKLETS WH SELF-PENNED WTICISMS AND ANECDOT. IN THE MID-1980S, THE QUE STATUQUE RUPL LEFT THE SOUTH AND HEAD TO NEW YORK CY AND BEME PART OF A NEW FTIVAL KNOWN AS WIGSTOCK. HE, HIS ATLANTA ROOMMATE LADY BUNNY (WHO LNCHED WIGSTOCK) AND OTHERS WOULD PERFORM DRAG PRIMARILY THE EAST VILLAGE AREA, WH THE FTIVAL EVENTUALLY GROWG. RUPL'S FLAMBOYANCE AND EASE ON STAGE MA HIM A H CLUB DANCER, AND BY THE END OF THE HE WAS DUBBED THE QUEEN OF NEW YORK. IN 1991, RUPL WAS SIGNED TO A RERDG NTRACT BY TOMMY BOY RERDS, AND TWO YEARS LATER HIS BUT ALBUM, SUPERMOL OF THE WORLD, APPEARED. HE FOUND A H WH THE SGLE “SUPERMOL (YOU BETTER WORK),” WHICH REACHED THE TOP 50 OF THE POP CHARTS AND NO. 2 ON THE DANCE CLUB CHARTS. RUPL WOULD REMA A CLUB FIXTURE OVER THE YEARS WH OTHER HS LIKE "SNAPSHOT" AND "WORKOUT." A 1993 DUET WH ELTON JOHN ON A REMAKE OF “DON’T GO BREAKG MY HEART” ALSO DREW ATTENTN, BEG A U.K. TOP 10 H. TV, FILMS AND AUTOBGRAPHYIN 1994, RUPL MA HIS FEATURE FILM BUT SPIKE LEE’S CROOKLYN, AND A NEW FACET OF HIS PERFORMG REER WAS LNCHED. A STRG OF ROL WOULD FOLLOW, CLUDG ON TV SHOWS SUCH AS SISTER, SISTER AND IN THE HOE AND FILMS SUCH AS THE BRADY BUNCH MOVIE, BLUE THE FACE AND TO WONG FOO THANKS FOR EVERYTHG, JULIE NEWMAR (ALL 1995 ALONE). THAT SAME YEAR, RUPL SAW HIS TOBGRAPHY LETT’ IT ALL HANG OUT PUBLISHED AND HE ALSO SIGNED ON AS A MOL WH MAC SMETICS. 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AFTER RUPL CLAIMED HIS FIRST EMMY FOR DRAG RACE 2016, THE MARCH 2017 SEASON 9 PREMIERE FEATURED LADY GAGA AND, WH CLOSE TO ONE LN VIEWERS TUNG , BEME THE MOST VIEWED EPISO THE SHOW'S HISTORY.PODST AND 'GAY FOR PLAY'NEVER ONE TO RT ON HIS LRELS, THE ENTERTAER LNCHED HIS RUPL: WHAT'S THE TEE? PODST 2014, WH EQUENT LLABORATOR MICHELLE VISAGE, AND APPEARED AS A JUDGE ON THE BODY PATG PETN SK WARS. HE ALSO HOSTED THE TRIVIA GAME SHOW GAY FOR PLAY FOR TWO SEASONS BEGNG APRIL 2016, WHILE NTUG TO CHURN OUT ALBUMS LIKE 2015'S SLAY BELL AND 2017'S REMEMBER ME: ESSENTIAL, VOL. 1 AND VOL. 2 AND AMERIN.LATE 2018 BROUGHT ANOTHER HOLIDAY-THEMED ALBUM, CHRISTMAS PARTY, AND RUPL'S THIRD BOOK, GURU. HIS ATTEMPT TO RETURN TO THE DAYTIME TALK SHOW CIRCU WH 2019'S RUPL WAS SHORT-LIVED, AS WAS HIS 2020 NETFLIX EDY-DRAMA SERI, AJ AND THE QUEEN. UNTERRED, THE DRAG IN UNVEILED HIS THIRTEENTH STUD ALBUM, YOU'RE A WNER BABY, JANUARY 2020, AND HOSTED SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE FOR THE FIRST TIME THE FOLLOWG MONTH.HOLLYWOOD WALK OF FAMEIN MARCH 2018, RUPL WAS AWARD A STAR ON THE HOLLYWOOD WALK OF FAME, THEREBY BEG THE FIRST DRAG QUEEN TO RECEIVE THE HONOR. FOLLOWG AN TRODUCTORY SPEECH BY FONDA, ONE OF HIS EARLY SPIRATNS, HE TEARFULLY TOLD THE DIENCE THAT THIS WAS "ABSOLUTELY THE MOST IMPORTANT MOMENT MY PROFSNAL REER." PERSONAL LIFERUPL MARRIED HIS LONGTIME PARTNER, ATRALIAN PATER GE LEBAR, JANUARY {BORR:0;BORR-BOTTOM:TH SOLID BLACK;MARG:1.875REM 0;CLEAR:BOTH;}QUICK FACTS

IS MY FRIEND GAY QUIZ

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This is a quiz that n tell you whether both (you and your iend) are gay or not. Cast & crew20141h 16mBoris Brokerov, ex-Soviet hockey star, is asked by the Brish News Network to make a film about the state of ee speech Rsia and to learn a ltle on what 's like to be gay Mos...

RSIAN GAY DU

Read allBoris Brokerov, ex-Soviet hockey star, is asked by the Brish News Network to make a film about the state of ee speech Rsia and to learn a ltle on what 's like to be gay Mosw. He unrgo a powerful transformatn as a rult of makg this Brokerov, ex-Soviet hockey star, is asked by the Brish News Network to make a film about the state of ee speech Rsia and to learn a ltle on what 's like to be gay Mosw.

GAY MAN RSIA FORCED TO HIDG OVER YOUTUBE TERVIEW

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. Maxim Pankratov told CNN he was facg threats and a potentially lengthy prison sentence for appearg the vio discsg his life as an openly gay man Rsia.

The vio, origally posted on the Rsian-language “Real Talk” YouTube channel, featured four children terviewg Pankratov, 22, about his life and his inty as a gay man.

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ON THE STRENGTH OF HIS TV SHOWS, CLUDG RUPL'S DRAG RACE, AND HIS OVERSIZED PERSONALY, RUPL HAS BEE A BEAN GAY, DRAG AND TRANSSEXUAL MUNI.EARLY LIFERUPL WAS BORN RUPL ANDRE CHARL ON NOVEMBER 17, 1960, SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA. HIS PARENTS DIVORCED WHEN RUPL WAS SEVEN, AND HE MOVED TO ATLANTA, GEIA, WH HIS SISTER AND HER HBAND DURG HIS TEENS. RUPL WAS THE ONLY BOY OF HIS PARENTS’ FOUR CHILDREN AND EVENTUALLY BEGAN WEARG HIS SISTERS’ CLOTH AND EXPLORG CROSS-DRSG, EMULATG STARS LIKE {-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN-THICKNS:0.0625REM;TEXT-RATN-LOR:HER;TEXT-UNRLE-OFFSET:0.25REM;LOR:#A00000;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;}{LOR:#595959;TEXT-RATN-LOR:BORR-LK-BODY-HOVER;}DIANA ROSS AND JANE FONDA HIS YOUTH.IN ATLANTA, RUPL ATTEND THE NORTHSI SCHOOL OF PERFORMG ARTS, AND ALTHOUGH HE DIDN’T GRADUATE, WAS A BIG STEP TOWARD GETTG HIS FEET WET THE WORLD OF PERFORMANCE AND, THE END, SHOW BS. IN 1982, RUPL TOOK THE NEXT STEP AND SENT A PHOTO OF HIMSELF TO A LOL TV PROGRAM LLED THE AMERIN MIC SHOW, ASKG TO APPEAR ON AIR. BEFORE LONG, HE WAS APPEARG ON THE SERI REGULARLY, OFTEN WH HIS NEWLY FORMED BAND, RUPL AND THE U-HLS.WIGSTOCK AND H SONG "SUPERMOL (YOU BETTER WORK)"RUPL AND THE U-HLS BROKE UP BEFORE TOO LONG, AND WEE WEE POLE WAS FORMED S PLACE, PERFORMG AROUND ATLANTA. RUPL ALSO MA HIS FIRST MOVE TO ACTG DURG THIS PERD, APPEARG UNCREDED ROL A SERI OF LOW-BUDGET MOVI. WHILE THE APPEARANC DIDN’T HELP RUPL CLIMB THE LADR OF FAME, HE WAS NEVER SHORT ON IAS TO FURTHER HIS REER. IN ONE SUCH PH, RUPL SOLD PICTUR OF HIMSELF AS POSTRDS AND CREATED LTLE BOOKLETS WH SELF-PENNED WTICISMS AND ANECDOT. IN THE MID-1980S, THE QUE STATUQUE RUPL LEFT THE SOUTH AND HEAD TO NEW YORK CY AND BEME PART OF A NEW FTIVAL KNOWN AS WIGSTOCK. HE, HIS ATLANTA ROOMMATE LADY BUNNY (WHO LNCHED WIGSTOCK) AND OTHERS WOULD PERFORM DRAG PRIMARILY THE EAST VILLAGE AREA, WH THE FTIVAL EVENTUALLY GROWG. RUPL'S FLAMBOYANCE AND EASE ON STAGE MA HIM A H CLUB DANCER, AND BY THE END OF THE HE WAS DUBBED THE QUEEN OF NEW YORK. IN 1991, RUPL WAS SIGNED TO A RERDG NTRACT BY TOMMY BOY RERDS, AND TWO YEARS LATER HIS BUT ALBUM, SUPERMOL OF THE WORLD, APPEARED. HE FOUND A H WH THE SGLE “SUPERMOL (YOU BETTER WORK),” WHICH REACHED THE TOP 50 OF THE POP CHARTS AND NO. 2 ON THE DANCE CLUB CHARTS. RUPL WOULD REMA A CLUB FIXTURE OVER THE YEARS WH OTHER HS LIKE "SNAPSHOT" AND "WORKOUT." A 1993 DUET WH ELTON JOHN ON A REMAKE OF “DON’T GO BREAKG MY HEART” ALSO DREW ATTENTN, BEG A U.K. TOP 10 H. TV, FILMS AND AUTOBGRAPHYIN 1994, RUPL MA HIS FEATURE FILM BUT SPIKE LEE’S CROOKLYN, AND A NEW FACET OF HIS PERFORMG REER WAS LNCHED. A STRG OF ROL WOULD FOLLOW, CLUDG ON TV SHOWS SUCH AS SISTER, SISTER AND IN THE HOE AND FILMS SUCH AS THE BRADY BUNCH MOVIE, BLUE THE FACE AND TO WONG FOO THANKS FOR EVERYTHG, JULIE NEWMAR (ALL 1995 ALONE). 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AFTER RUPL CLAIMED HIS FIRST EMMY FOR DRAG RACE 2016, THE MARCH 2017 SEASON 9 PREMIERE FEATURED LADY GAGA AND, WH CLOSE TO ONE LN VIEWERS TUNG , BEME THE MOST VIEWED EPISO THE SHOW'S HISTORY.PODST AND 'GAY FOR PLAY'NEVER ONE TO RT ON HIS LRELS, THE ENTERTAER LNCHED HIS RUPL: WHAT'S THE TEE? PODST 2014, WH EQUENT LLABORATOR MICHELLE VISAGE, AND APPEARED AS A JUDGE ON THE BODY PATG PETN SK WARS. HE ALSO HOSTED THE TRIVIA GAME SHOW GAY FOR PLAY FOR TWO SEASONS BEGNG APRIL 2016, WHILE NTUG TO CHURN OUT ALBUMS LIKE 2015'S SLAY BELL AND 2017'S REMEMBER ME: ESSENTIAL, VOL. 1 AND VOL. 2 AND AMERIN.LATE 2018 BROUGHT ANOTHER HOLIDAY-THEMED ALBUM, CHRISTMAS PARTY, AND RUPL'S THIRD BOOK, GURU. HIS ATTEMPT TO RETURN TO THE DAYTIME TALK SHOW CIRCU WH 2019'S RUPL WAS SHORT-LIVED, AS WAS HIS 2020 NETFLIX EDY-DRAMA SERI, AJ AND THE QUEEN. 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The format of the vio is simple: Pankratov and his terviewers face each other chairs agast a blue background, and the children ask simple qutns: “How did you know you were gay? “It was about what ’s like to be a gay man Rsia and how I live.

Rsia has a rerd of official hostily toward gay rights. ” The law – which prohibs public discsn of gay rights and relatnships anywhere children may be prent – has drawn wispread ternatnal nmnatn.

In 2017, a European urt led that the law was discrimatory, promoted homophobia and vlated the European Conventn on Human Rights.

Rsian thori have barred and broken up gay-pri march.