Gay married uple flee Rsia after receivg ath threats | LGBTQ+ rights | The Guardian

Contents:

• CHARL T. GAY, JR.
• CHARL R. GAY OBUARY
• OBUARY OF CHARL R. GAY
• CHARL LEE GAY
• CHARL E. GAY
• CHARL RONALD GAY SR. OBUARY
• DAYS AFTER A H LIST FOR GAYS AND LBIANS DISAPPEARS, A RSIAN ACTIVIST IS KILLED
• ‘GAY’ UPLE PHYSILLY, VERBALLY ABED DURG SOCIAL EXPERIMENT MOSW
• GAY MARRIED UPLE FLEE RSIA AFTER RECEIVG ATH THREATS
• CHARL LEE GAY

CHARL T. GAY, JR.

Gay, Jr., 65, died on March 8, 2023 at Tufts Medil Center Boston surround by his lovg fay. (Layman) Gay wh whom he was married to for 38 years.

He was born Woburn, MA on Febary 25, 1958 and was a son of Loretta (DeLisle) Gay of Billeri and the late Charl T.

Gay, Sr.. Gay of Lowell and Ashley E.

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O’Donnell and her hband Ryan of Lowell; his two grandchildren, Jacquele and Keira; his six siblgs, Lorretta DeLisle, Lda Voner and her hband Charlie, Lorrie Mackns and her hband Ernie, Lisa Woodard and her hband Charlie, Kev Gay and Christe Thompson and her hband Nate; as well as several niec, nephews, fay and iends. “Chuck” Gay. Gay of Herkimer, New York, born Schenectady, New York, who passed away at the age of 84, on January 9, 2023.

Gay and Mildred Gay (Raynor); and his sisters, Marie Avery and Carol Wells. Arnow; his children, Sonya Furns (John) of Oriskany Falls, NY, Sherri Boyer (Eric) of East Herkimer, Stt Gay of Frankfort and Steven Gay (Lynta) of Herkimer; his grandchildren, Angela McMicken (Cameron), Kayla Smh (William), Ji Gilbert (Josiah), Savana Gay, Sean Furns (Andrea), Thomas Furns (Raye), John Furns, Jr.

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(Cassandra) and Kurst Gay (Maria); his great grandchildren, Sara McMicken, Ryan McMicken, Evann Smh, Wa Smh, Merrt Smh, Zaylyn Burks, Sean Furns Jr., Jane Furns and Baby Gilbert; his brother--law Jefey Arnow; his close iends, Willie, Jake and Snickers; and his dghter--law Lynta Gay. Gay. Gay, 77, more monly known as Buck, passed away Saturday, December 18, 2021.

by his wife, Martha (Randall) Gay, dghter Tammy (Chad) Conrad, step-dghter, Ida. (Campbell) Thompson, brother, Lannie (Pam) Gay and sister, Sandra, (Ken) Mahoski,. To plant a betiful memorial tree memory of Charl Gay, please vis our Tree Store.

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CHARL E. GAY

To show was preceased by: his parents, Charlie Mac and Nora Blanche Pendley Gay; his wife Myrtle Elae Appel Gay; and his brothers, R. Gay, Jr.

(Brenda) of Jefferson; his grandchildren, Christopher Gay and Brtany Dorman; and his great grandchildren, Joseph Gay, Kaven Howard, Israel Howard, Heidi Gay and Landon Dorman.

There were dozens of nam on : Rsian gays, lbians, activists and supporters of LGBT , even journalists. The killg has stunned gay people across Rsia, where members of the LGBT muny and advot for their rights have faced worseng threats for years now.

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“Of urse, people are shocked” by the killg, said Svetlana Zakharova of the Rsian LGBT Network, one of the untry’s largt advocy anizatns for gays and lbians.

Homosexualy was crimalized Rsia the 1990s, but LGBT people have faced varyg gre of discrimatn over the years. Rights fenrs say bias has been enuraged by a law targetg gay “propaganda, ” which Print Vladimir Put signed 2013.

DAYS AFTER A H LIST FOR GAYS AND LBIANS DISAPPEARS, A RSIAN ACTIVIST IS KILLED

Sce then, LGBT-rights mpaigners and hate-crime rearchers have reported a notable uptick vlence and harassment agast gays and lbians, often om nservative activists, or those pog Orthodox Christian beliefs. It is unclear who exactly is behd the Saw lists, which have been circulatg for years on social-media works and “dark web” s, llg for rears to lote and attack gay people Rsia.

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Sce then, the se has promoted an event lled “Chechnya Comeback” -- a reference to a so-lled gay purge which media vtigatns and harrowg personal acunts revealed that gay and bisexual men the Chechnya regn were beg targeted. It has also published personal tails about gays and lbians Rsia, such as addrs and phone numbers, and sold the rmatn to people willg to pay for . A screenshot om the webse of the homophobic group llg self “Saw Agast LGBT.

GAY MARRIED UPLE FLEE RSIA AFTER RECEIVG ATH THREATS

RFE/RL’s Rsian Service is also named, as is Novaya Gazeta, an pennt Rsian newspaper that was the first to report that law-enforcement thori Chechnya were roundg up gay and bisexual men. The realy is that far om gettg “addnal” rights, lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) people Rsia still stggle to enjoy the same fundamental protectn as everyone else. A stark example of this me three days after Tolstoi’s remarks, when a Mosw jury acquted someone who killed a gay man.

On June 29, 47-year-old Roman Edalov and his partner Evgeny Efimov were wag for a b the cy center, when a dnk man attacked them, screamg homophobic obsceni and punchg them, before he fled. Rearch suggts a sizable majory of Rsians "don't thk homosexualy should be accepted by society".

The ugly nature of Rsian anti-gay prejudice is on full display a vio upload by LGBT rights activists, who secretly filmed a “gay” uple walkg through Mosw holdg hands. Supreme Court’s cisn to legalize gay marriage natnwi wh the treatment that LGBT upl receive Rsia. As the two men walk through the cy, passersby hurl homophobic slurs at them, and at one pot a man says, Rsian, “hey, look at the two gays walkg by.

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The vio seems to nfirm 2013 fdgs om the Pew Rearch Center, which found that three-quarters of Rsians “don’t thk homosexualy should be accepted by society.