As Vladimir Put ph anti-gay agenda, vigilante movements ga momentum on social media
Contents:
- RSIA'S NEW NEO-NAZI SPORT: TERRORIZG GAY YOUTH ONLE
- RSIAN NEO-NAZIS TORTURE GAY TEENAGER THEY TRICKED TO MEETG THEM AS PART OF ONLE SM
RSIA'S NEW NEO-NAZI SPORT: TERRORIZG GAY YOUTH ONLE
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Neher movement is explicly anti-gay, though there are strong unrcurrents of homophobia to each; th far, only gay men and boys have been targeted. And light of Print Vladimir Put’s recent crackdown on gay rights, some worry that the movements will only ga momentum gog forward — fanng the flam of hate and bigotry as the Kreml looks to shore up support among s nservative base.
"Beg outed a small cy or village Rsia very often means ath, " says Larry Poltavtsev of the Spectm Human Rights Alliance, a Washgton, DC-based advocy group for gay rights Eastern Europe.
("This will cure you of homosexualy, " one says.
RSIAN NEO-NAZIS TORTURE GAY TEENAGER THEY TRICKED TO MEETG THEM AS PART OF ONLE SM
Crics say anti-gay Movements "trample on human digny. To gay rights advot, VK’s tac tolerance of Occupy Pedofilyay is simply a reflectn of larger and far more worrisome polil trends. In June, Put signed a ntroversial law that mak a crime to dissemate any propaganda that labels gay and heterosexual relatnships as “socially equivalent.
” The ia, the Kreml claims, is to prevent mors om growg up wh a “distorted unrstandg” of sexual relatns, though the laws have been met wh wispread nmnatn, wh crics sayg they provi implic jtifitn for Martskevich and others to attack gays. Gorenburg and others say Put’s gay crackdown is more about polics than moraly.
” Many have blamed Put’s polil posturg for a recent spate of homophobic vlence. In May, a gay man was burned to ath the southern cy of Volgograd after his assailants sodomized him wh empty beer bottl.