Why Rsia Turned Agast The Gays

Contents:

• ‘I’M AAID FOR MY FUTURE’: PROPOSED LAWS THREATEN GAY LIFE RSIA
• WHY RSIA IS SO ANTI-GAY
• LGBT HATE CRIM DOUBLE RSIA AFTER BAN ON 'GAY PROPAGANDA'
• 1 5 RSIANS WANT GAYS AND LBIANS 'ELIMATED,' SURVEY FDS
• RSIA: THE UNTRY THAT HAT GAY PEOPLE
• WHY RSIA TURNED AGAST THE GAYS

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

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“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. 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.

WHY RSIA IS SO ANTI-GAY

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.

LGBT HATE CRIM DOUBLE RSIA AFTER BAN ON 'GAY PROPAGANDA'

”The anizers had good reason to be wary: Life has been challengg for gay Rsians sce the law passed, as the ernment has treated gay life as a Wtern import that is harmful to tradnal Rsian valu and Rsia’s Parliament is set to pass a legislative package that would ban all “gay propaganda, ” signalg an even more difficult perd ahead for a stigmatized segment of laws would prohib reprentatn of L. Exprsn wh s ratnale for the war Ukrae, sistg that Rsia is fightg not jt Ukrae but all of NATO, a Wtern alliance that reprents a threat to the Put drove home that argument a speech last week, sayg that the Wt n have “dozens of genrs and gay pri paras, ” but that should not try to spread the “trends” elsewhere. Olenichev said that though the police do not track hate crim agast queer people, he and his lleagu have noticed an crease clients who have suffered inty-based attacks sce rhetoric behd anti-gay laws may have dangero nsequenc for gay Rsians, said Vladimir Komov, a lawyer wh the group Delo 2013 law was promoted as protectg children, while the new on “seek to prohib gay propaganda as a danger to the state system, ” fg as extremism, he Lunchenkov said the proposed laws uld leave gay people “aaid to go to medil clics to get treatment or ttg” for sexually transmted diseas.

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. 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.

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

Holdg gay pri events, speakg fense of gay rights, or equatg gay and heterosexual relatnships n now rult f of up to $31, the vote, gay rights activists who attempted to hold a "kiss-" outsi the Duma were pelted wh eggs by Orthodox Christian and pro-Kreml activists.

"The argument that a young person n be "propagandized" to turng gay may seem outdated (not to mentn an overtimatn of the power of propaganda), but 's actually not out of place morn Rsia. When a 23-year-old man Volgograd revealed he was gay to some drkg panns last month, they beat him, shoved beer bottl his an, and cshed his head wh a the Soviet Unn, homosexualy was a crime punishable by prison and hard labor, and Stalist anti-gay polici persisted throughout the 60s and 70s. "When the Stal anti-homosexual law was repealed 1993, there was no amnty for those still stg prison for sodomy, " wrote history profsor Dan Healey, an expert on homosexualy Rsia, on the 90s, Rsians have faced credible enomic turmoil, a loss of public servic many areas, and wispread rptn -- all factors that be to rerce negative stereotyp.

"To the gree that a given society that is secure about s polil, social, enomic, and ung cultural inty, will mask that secury wh a swaggerg show of genred strength, " said Yvonne Howell, a Rsian profsor at the Universy of 16 percent of Rsians today say homosexualy should be accepted by society, pared wh 42 percent nearby (and also formerly munist) Poland. "Wood went on to say an email: While there is plenty of homophobia Rsia, I thk the Soviet state ntued the Tsarist Orthodox state's directn of beg a moral and tutelary state -- the ntuy of state fluence over moral choic never died away. Durg Ukrae’s Maidan Revolutn Febary 2014, Rsian state-sponsored media sought to discred the aspiratns of Ukraian protters for tegratn wh the European Unn by spreadg homophobic msagg.

RSIA: THE UNTRY THAT HAT GAY PEOPLE

Rsia’s largt newspaper claimed that monstratns were beg anized by “natnalists, anti-Sem, neo-Nazis, and homosexuals, ” and warned about same-sex marriage beg imposed on Ukrae if the untry joed the EU. In a November 2022 report, the Ukraian human rights anizatn Nash Sv shared that had unvered at least 10 s where LGBTQ Ukraians livg unr Rsian occupatn the untry’s east had been targeted anti-gay attacks, which clud accatns of rape, sexual vlence, imprisonment, asslt, theft, and attempted murr. In the past year, a rerd number of Ukraian soldiers have e out as gay, bisexual, and transgenr, wh many of them g LGBTIQ Milary—a popular nonernmental anizatn that advot for LGBTQ soldiers—as their platform.

Though the news of the unknown gay soldier’s ath last week has vastated Ukrae’s LGBTQ muny, has also had the knock-on effect of further rallyg support behd a new petn that lls on Zelensky to “make every effort to promote” the adoptn of Sovsun’s civil unn bill. Nearly three-quarters of Rsians believe that homosexually is morally unacceptable, more than disapprove of other hot-button issu such as extramaral affairs, gamblg and numbers e om newly released data om the Pew Rearch Center, which surveyed Rsians on their moral attus sprg 2013.

Jt eight months before the gam, Rsia's ernmental body, the Duma, passed a law makg illegal to distribute homosexual "propaganda" to mors, which clus stagg gay pri events and advotg for gay law also bans foreign same-sex upl om adoptg Rsian the openg day of the Olympics (Feb.

WHY RSIA TURNED AGAST THE GAYS

[5 Myths About Gay People Debunked]History of anti-gay attusUnrstandg Rsia's wispread gay sentiment requir a look back, said Tatiana Mikhailova, a senr stctor of Rsian Studi at the Universy of Colorado, Boulr. "Where gays are allowed, pedophilia will soon flourish, " says Rsian Orthodox prit Sergei Rybko a new BBC documentary, "Hunted, " released this month, that explor vlence toward Rsian Rsian Orthodox Church is a major driver of anti-gay public opn, Mikhailova said, but there is a paradox at most untri, religsy is lked to anti-gay attus.

Few Rsians say relign is central to their liv; the untry sr on par wh many Wtern European untri terms of lack of religsy, but only 9 percent of Rsians say homosexualy is acceptable the new survey.

Another 9 percent say homosexualy is not a moral issue, and 72 percent say beg gay is parison, 69 percent of Rsians say extramaral affairs are unacceptable, 62 percent disapprove of gamblg, and 44 percent say abortn is immoral. [6 Thgs Rsians Thk Are More Acceptable Than Beg Gay]While the average Rsian may not attend church equently or pray fervently, the Orthodox Church still holds sway over public opn, Mikhailova said.