An Interview wh a Gay, Rsian Neo-Nazi

Contents:

• INSI THE IRON CLOSET: WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE GAY PUT'S RSIA
• OBAMA MEETS WH RSIAN GAY RIGHTS ADVOT
• MEET THE GAY RSIAN TEEN USG TWTER TO FIGHT HOMOPHOBIA
• AN INTERVIEW WH A GAY, RSIAN NEO-NAZI
• MEET THE GAY RSIAN MAN BLACKMAILED TO FILTRATE TERRORIST GROUPS SYRIA
• 6 WAYS TO HELP GAY RSIANS SEEK ASYLUM THE U.S.
• PUT’S PRI? SIX FAMO GAY SONS OF RSIA
• GAY MAN RSIA FORCED TO HIDG OVER YOUTUBE TERVIEW
• GAY ACTIVISTS IN RSIA MEET WH OBAMA
• GAY DATG UKRAE
• ‘I’M AAID FOR MY FUTURE’: PROPOSED LAWS THREATEN GAY LIFE RSIA
• BEG GAY IS ILLEGAL MANY COUNTRI. L.G.B.T.Q. TRAVELERS ARE GOG ANYWAY.
• 'WE'RE NOT HIDG': GAY AND LBIAN RSIANS SAY A CULTURAL SHIFT IS UNRWAY
• MEET ANTON KRASOVSKY, THE GAY MAN RUNNG FOR MAYOR OF MOSW
• WHO CONTROLS A GAY RSIAN TEEN-AGER’S STORY?

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

In other words, where Bud Light has buckled unr prsure as bigotry grows agast the LGBTQ+ muny, Gay Water’s creator Spencer Hodson wants his new boozy brand to be the anthis of that.

“The key issue that Bud Light tapped to was the fact that they didn’t unrstand their re dience and know enough about them,” Hodson, a gay man, told CNN about the ntroversy that began when the Anhser-Bch beer brand sent fluencer Dylan Mulvaney a n of beer.

“Puttg a product wh the word gay the tle is reprentatn self,” which he hop reclaims the word om the negativy ’s sometim associated wh. The two chatted about the limed amount of gay people wh , and wh Hodson burnt out om his tradnal day job tech, started the nned cktail. Hodson built up a strong social media followg on TikTok and Instagram durg Covid-19 and is g some of the money om that (as well as om iends and fay) to help fund Gay Water.

OBAMA MEETS WH RSIAN GAY RIGHTS ADVOT

“Gay is an umbrella term and the ia behd the brand is to be as clive as possible, which means we want alli, we want straight people to be part of this muny we’re buildg.”. For now, Gay Water is sold largely onle (wh a few retailers) and four sugar-ee flavors — watermelon, lime, peach and grapeu — at lnch.

Gay Water might not have the ep pockets pared to s petors, like Whe Claw, but “even at small sle, pani of many siz are havg succs makg spir-based seltzers and premixed cktails,” Bryan Roth, an analyst for Feel Goods Company and edor of the alhol beverage newsletter, Sightl+, told CNN.

“There’s lots of space the spir-based seltzer tegory which Gay Water n play, pecially if the brand n offer a cultural or emotnal nnectn that will feel more excg than the prospect of another peapple-flavored vodka seltzer om natnal or ternatnal rporatns,” Roth said.

MEET THE GAY RSIAN TEEN USG TWTER TO FIGHT HOMOPHOBIA

Of urse, other drks e the word “gay,” too, cludg Gay Beer and So Gay Rosé, Hodson noted, which are also tryg to reach the queer muny and offer them an alternative the straight-domated space. In December 2022, Rsia expand s existg “gay propaganda” law to exert ntrol over public discsns and narrativ surroundg non-heterosexual relatnships and inti. “This legislatn is the latt a strg of asslts on the rights of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr people, this time unr the bric of state-ced transphobia.

AN INTERVIEW WH A GAY, RSIAN NEO-NAZI

“First Rsia tried to erase lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr inti om public view, and now they are targetg transgenr people themselv, ” Reid said.

“Rsia should reverse s outrageo policy and ensure rights to inty, fay life, and medil re for lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr people – startg wh reversg the anti-trans law. Petersburg, has also distguished self as most tolerant of the LGBT muny, acrdg to the rults of a recent banned “homosexual propaganda” among mors 2013, leadg the urts to ban gay pri events and public pollg show surgg anti-LGBT sentiment. In recent weeks, thori the North Cs republic of Chechnya have aga been acced of illegally tag and killg gay men and Petersburg me first place among 20 Rsian ci whose rints are the most gay-iendly, acrdg to the Zoom Market agency’s rearch published Saturday.

MEET THE GAY RSIAN MAN BLACKMAILED TO FILTRATE TERRORIST GROUPS SYRIA

Novosibirsk and Mosw placed send and third, followed by Voronezh, Krasnodar and the oppose end of the rankg, the marketg agency named Saratov, Chelyabsk and Kazan as the three least tolerant Rsian ci toward LGBT Market surveyed 2, 400 rponnts om 20 Rsian ci on how they feel about sexual mori and whether any of their iends are gay.

Print Barack Obama met wh lears of several Rsian social activist groups Friday, an event that likely touched on the sensive subject of gay rights the natn amid tensns over Syria. Earlier this year, Rsian Print Vladimir Put signed a law passed by parliament that bans the public discsn of gay rights and relatnships where children might hear . At the event Friday Rsia, Obama met wh reprentativ of groups that support a range of , cludg media eedom, protectn of the environment and lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr rights.

Like Kazakov, many other gay Rsians have recently fled to the Uned Stat hop of beg granted asylum, sayg they're fearful for their safety back home. Attorneys at Immigratn Equaly, a New York Cy nonprof that offers legal servic to the LGBT muny and HIV-posive asylum seekers, say their seloads have skyrocketed om 50 to 60 requts for assistance om Rsian gays 2011 and 2012 to 180 requts last year. Many are tryg to pe vlent suatns that arose followg a 2013 law preventg gays om speakg about their sexualy or participatg public displays of affectn ont of mors.

6 WAYS TO HELP GAY RSIANS SEEK ASYLUM THE U.S.

Human Rights Watch has lled for Rsia’s 2013 anti-LGBT-“propaganda” law to be repealed and for Rsian lears to publicly nmn vlence agast gays. Vladimir Put’s regime has passed “gay propaganda” laws that effectively ban people om discsg anythg support of LGBT people, and now gay people and their alli live fear of prosecutn and attack – pecially om the neo-Nazi anti-gay group Occupy-Pedofilyay.

Apart om activists prottg Mosw and Sat Petersburg, most gays have eher gone to hidg or attempted to mask their inty, makg difficult for Wterners to know what ’s really like to be gay Rsia. But one brave gay Rsian teenager is changg this wh @_lgbt_teen, a Twter acunt about beg a gay teen Novosibirsk, the third most-populated cy most teenagers, Kirill tweets about his personal life, wh short sentenc about his recurrg prsn and mor updat on what he do his ee time.

His avatar is a simple "SOS", and he often posts news about Rsia and imag of boys homoerotic suatns that uld also be seen as tragic – such as the 19th century Rsian pater Ilya Rep's Barge Hlers on the Volga, which shows over-worked men fallg on each other as they drag a barge across a Hlers on the Volga, a picture the Rsian pater Ilya Rep pated 140 years ago 1873, via Wiki CommonsVia email, Kirill was kd enough to speak to VICE about his Twter acunt, how he meets other gay teens and his plan to pe Rsia. People are different, but the male members of society are tryg to avoid havg anythg to do wh gays, [bee they don’t want anybody] to thk that they are gay. However, I have experienced the unimagable lims of school homophobia, where you are nstantly huiated, sulted and almost beaten durg recs and by the school, while teachers act like they do not notice.

PUT’S PRI? SIX FAMO GAY SONS OF RSIA

I n't be granted asylum, bee I nnot prove school bullyg, and I do not have the mental health or the mental pacy to prott to help the gays. Our televisn statns talked about for several days and jt said, wh such theatril pathos, that “ France there is gay censorship and dictatorship”.

While at the same time, personally for me and for the majory of gays whom I know, our last hope is the Sofie on Twter: @sofiucksMore about Rsia:I'm a Rsian Lbian Pretendg to Be Straight to Avoid PersecutnThe NSFW Rsian Party Photos Might Send a Guy to PrisonAn Interview wh a Gay, Rsian Neo-Nazi. An vtigatn by a Mosw-based newspaper this sprg ma headl around the world that the Rsian ernment Chechnya, a republic the North Cs, was mtg horrific crim agast gay men.

GAY MAN RSIA FORCED TO HIDG OVER YOUTUBE TERVIEW

But few journalists have wrten about how Rsian secury agenci gather kompromat, or promisg material, on gay men the regn orr to blackmail and rec them.

An exclive terview wh a young gay man Rlan (his name has been changed to protect his inty) om the neighborg Rsian republic of Dagtan by the Csian Knot sheds light on a practice which dat back to Soviet tim and is still ed by Rsian secury servic. There, a room on the send floor, he was terrogated, shown a secret rerdg of himself wh another gay man and given a choice: work as a spy for the Rsian ernment Syria or everyone on his ntact list would see the vio. Homophobic msag are wily circulated on Rsian state televisn and by policians, however the predomantly Mlim republics of the Cs beg gay n be adly.

GAY ACTIVISTS IN RSIA MEET WH OBAMA

The Novaya Gazeta vtigatn revealed that lol Chechen thori were systematilly enuragg fai to rry out honor killgs of their gay sons and brothers. Subsequent follow ups to the story revealed that dozens of men, believed to be gay, had been round up and held secret prisons where they were tortured and some s killed.

GAY DATG UKRAE

There are no ncrete numbers, but Rlan says the FSB’s practice of gatherg kompromat, promisg material ed for ercn, is well known to members of Dagtan’s secretive gay muny. By the time he met his recers, Rlan already knew of a gay iend who went to meet a man that he met onle and end up stead an apartment wh officers om secury servic.

If you’ve been followg the news the last few years you’ve likely heard that the suatn for gays and lbians Rsia has terrated signifintly. Vladimir Put’s anti-gay propaganda laws have sought to stifle homosexual exprsn – but Sochi’s openg ceremony featured some of the most proment homosexuals ternatnal history. The Sochi 2014 Wter Olympics openg ceremony referenced proment gay Rsians om the field of lerature, ballet, mic and film – cludg Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Vaslav Nijsky and Sergei Eisenste.

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

The script for a film about Tchaikovsky’s life, which is beg ma wh Rsian ernment fundg, was reported to have been rewrten to exclu any suggtn that the poser was gay.

He was a ntroversial character Rsia who phed the boundari of what was permissible ballet, cludg referenc to homosexualy and masturbatn. Diaghilev was openly gay, and was scribed by the poser Nilas Nabokov as “perhaps the first grand homosexual who asserted himself and was accepted as such by society”. Battlhip Potemk director Sergei Eisenste, a pneer of the e of montage film, is believed to have been gay, though he was married to a woman until his ath 1948.

A movement Rsia is seekg Ivan the Terrible’s nonisatn – his homosexual leangs are jt one barrier to the Rsian Orthodox Church agreeg to this. 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.

BEG GAY IS ILLEGAL MANY COUNTRI. L.G.B.T.Q. TRAVELERS ARE GOG ANYWAY.

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. 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?

” The law – which prohibs public discsn of gay rights and relatnships anywhere children may be prent – has drawn wispread ternatnal nmnatn. In the Rsian republic of Chechnya, for stance, wns and victims me forward to make public allegatns of mass arrts and torture of gay men.

“This se is a particularly disturbg example of thori g Rsia’s ‘gay propaganda’ law as a tool for discrimatn and timidatn, ” said Kyle Knight, senr LGBT rights rearcher at the advocy group Human Rights Watch. 04:19Download AudCopy the below to embed the WBUR d player on your seRumePolice ta a gay rights activist durg a prott near the State Duma, Rsia's lower parliament chamber, Mosw last January.

'WE'RE NOT HIDG': GAY AND LBIAN RSIANS SAY A CULTURAL SHIFT IS UNRWAY

(Mikhail Metzel/AP)Print Obama is meetg wh gay activists Rsia while he is the untry for the G20 June, Rsia passed a so lled “anti-homosexual propaganda” law which lls for the need to protect children and what the law says is the “natural fay. ”Sce then, reports of vlence agast LGBT people Rsia have Gsen, who is a journalist Mosw and has three children wh her same sex partner, says new laws have been proposed to remove children om same-sex fai and she is nsirg emigratg wh her fay as a says that although Rsia is a homophobic society, the anti-gay laws reprent a new maniftatn of homophobia.

”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.

Lawmakers llg gays a danger on a par wh war “is more funny than sry, ” he now, gay Rsians and their alli have found exprsn spe rtrictive laws. Married gay men have the most spendg power, wh a median hoehold e that is more than $25, 000 higher than their straight and lbian so, beg out and gettg out n be at odds a world where many plac are hostile — and sometim outright dangero. I haven’t heard of anyone havg issu, ” said Bryan Herb, -founr of Zoom Vatns, which operat small tours untri such as Kenya, the Maldiv, and Moroc, all plac where gay sex n brg prison terms.

MEET ANTON KRASOVSKY, THE GAY MAN RUNNG FOR MAYOR OF MOSW

”Pk money a gray ScurfieldMany untri may jt pend on the flux of tourist dollars so much that they’re willg to give tourists — whether straight or gay — special tourism dtry is a top ntributor to Kenya’s gross domtic product and acunts for more than half a ln jobs Moroc. Hospaly also driv the enomy the Maldiv, where three lol men recently received prison sentenc for havg homosexual relatns, while dozens more have been vtigated. “We would love the opportuny to work wh your anizatn to create tailored erari for your LGBTQ+ travelers Tanzania, ” read a recent email he received om a small safari a lonial-era law, Tanzania punish nsensual gay sex wh up to life prison, and April, the ernment shut down thoands of webs and social media acunts lked to gay groups and people.

When travelg to Tanzania, for example, clients are advised to practice discretn sce “even heterosexual PDAs are owned upon, ” referrg to public displays of page for Out Adventur’ tour to Egypt, cludg a Nile River cise and snorkelg the Red Sea startg at $5, 495 per traveler, explas that “gay datg apps should be avoid” and disurag clients om tryg to participate the “unrground gay scene” of the larger Egyptian thori have been reported to harass and entrap members of the L. Sharp said, “but we don’t want to put anyone the lol queer muny a suatn where they uld be at risk bee they’re seen wh this group of obv homosexuals.

WHO CONTROLS A GAY RSIAN TEEN-AGER’S STORY?

More about Aara TiefenthälerA versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn C, Page 7 of the New York edn wh the headle: Where Beg Gay Is Illegal, Travel Is Complited. "Their weddg ceremony took place jt before more than 15, 000 people gathered the Buchart to fend LGBTQ rights as lawmakers ph for the new law that would ban any discsn of homosexualy or genr inty virtually all public and private spac, cludg schools, workplac, the ter and other mass media. Hungary, Romania's neighbor to the wt, adopted a siar law June 2021 prohibg the distributn of ntent emed to promote homosexualy and genr change to people unr 18 school sex tn, films or TV mercials.

In the ntext of Rsia's attack on Ukrae, she said queer Rsians who have a male genr marker on their passports have also grown creasgly aaid of beg drafted to the army, both bee they don't want to take part the war and bee there's rampant transphobia and homophobia the Rsian army. Senator Tammy Baldw, a Democrat and the untry's first openly gay senator, met wh lears om MozaiQ and ACCEPT to discs measur to rce discrimatn Romania.

"Regardls of where someone liv the world, they serve the digny to live ee om discrimatn based on who they are and who they love, " she homosexualy has been crimalized Romania sce 2001, same-sex upl are neher allowed to marry nor enter to civil unns, and transgenr people are not able to change the genr on their IDs whout havg to pursue legal actn, as there is no admistrative procre to acplish this. And urage is what he needs most right now, as Krasovsky is the only openly gay person the untry of Rsia—wh a populatn of more than 140 ln—who dar to pete the Kreml-ntrolled electn majory of Rsian policians and burecrats agree that LGBTQ people are abnormal. Many LGBTQ fai fled the untry fear of the state takg their children away om then, Print Put has been cricized for not dog enough to help the gay men killed and persecuted a vic crackdown Chechnya.