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Contents:

• RSIAN PRINT VLADIMIR PUT IS 'LATENTLY GAY,' ALLEG CONTROVERSIAL NEW BGRAPHY
• ‘I’M AAID FOR MY FUTURE’: PROPOSED LAWS THREATEN GAY LIFE RSIA
• RSIA TO GAYS: SHUT UP AND DISAPPEAR
• WHY RSIA TURNED AGAST THE GAYS
• 'THERE WILL BE DAD AND MUM': PUT L OUT RSIA LEGALIZG GAY MARRIAGE
• THE FILM PUT DON’T WANT THE WORLD TO SEE: FIREBIRD, A GAY LOVE STORY ABOUT FIGHTER PILOTS
• PUT’S PRI? SIX FAMO GAY SONS OF RSIA
• RSIA'S PUT SIGNS 'GAY PROPAGANDA' BAN TO LAW
• INSI THE IRON CLOSET: WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE GAY PUT'S RSIA
• THE GAY WORLD WAR? INSI PUT’S WARPED REALY

RSIAN PRINT VLADIMIR PUT IS 'LATENTLY GAY,' ALLEG CONTROVERSIAL NEW BGRAPHY

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 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. In the book, Belkovsky, a long-time Put opponent, is also said to speculate that "sex and a sex life are alien" to the polician, who the 42-year-old thor says may be "latently gay.

In July, Harvey Fierste wrote an op-ed for The New York Tim that Put had "clared war on homosexuals" after he signed several anti-gay bills to law, cludg one that banned "homosexual propaganda. Dpe wispread ternatnal cricism, Put has fend the anti-gay measur and has sisted that neher he nor his ernment is homophobic.

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

It was a faiar rendn of Put’s bgo rd of geopolil rentments—and then he transned to the issue of gay and transgenr rights.

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.

RSIA TO GAYS: SHUT UP AND DISAPPEAR

It was, as later scribed by Human Rights Watch, a “classic example of polil homophobia” for “polil ga.

Acrdg to Rsian media monorg anizatn Medialogiya, reports about homosexualy skyrocketed om jt 11 2011 to more than 160 2013.

WHY RSIA TURNED AGAST THE GAYS

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. 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.

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

“Over the past two to three years, this hatred has grown all directns, cludg, unfortunately, towards gay people.

In 2021, Hungary’s nservative ernment passed a gay propaganda law very siar to Rsia’s while Romania is weighg s own. Rsia’s weaponizatn of gay rights transformed the issue to a new geopolil flt le, Kondakov said. In December 2022, Rsia expand s existg “gay propaganda” law to exert ntrol over public discsns and narrativ surroundg non-heterosexual relatnships and inti.

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.

THE FILM PUT DON’T WANT THE WORLD TO SEE: FIREBIRD, A GAY LOVE STORY ABOUT FIGHTER PILOTS

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.

PUT’S PRI? SIX FAMO GAY SONS OF RSIA

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.

RSIA'S PUT SIGNS 'GAY PROPAGANDA' BAN TO LAW

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.

Experts say Put’s anti-gay rhetoric the middle of the war is tend to distract Rsians angry at the length and st of the war.

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

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. Rsian media, misters, and propagandists have all been phg an anti-gay agenda, often lkg to natnal secury.

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. 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.

THE GAY WORLD WAR? INSI PUT’S WARPED REALY

“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.