Put Expands ‘Gay Propaganda’ Ban, Threateng LGBTQ Crackdown - Bloomberg

Contents:

• RSIA: EXPAND 'GAY PROPAGANDA' BAN PROGRS TOWARD LAW
• LGBT HATE CRIM DOUBLE RSIA AFTER BAN ON 'GAY PROPAGANDA'
• GAY TIKTOK UPLE ARRTED RSIA
• MALE STATE: RSIA BANS GROUP FOR ANTI-WOMEN AND ANTI-GAY POSTS
• RSIAN NSTUTN CHANGE ENDS HOP FOR GAY MARRIAGE
• RSIA MOV TO BAN GAY MARRIAGE
• PUT EXPANDS ‘GAY PROPAGANDA’ BAN, THREATENG LGBTQ CRACKDOWN
• WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT RSIA’S SO-CALLED ‘GAY PROPAGANDA’ BILL
• RSIAN PARLIAMENT MOV TO EXPAND 'GAY PROPAGANDA' LAW
• HOMOSEXUALY: THE UNTRI WHERE IS ILLEGAL TO BE GAY
• GAY PARAS BANNED MOSW FOR 100 YEARS
• RSIA PROPOS EXTENDG ‘GAY PROPAGANDA’ LAW TO ALL ADULTS
• RSIA PASS LAW BANNG GAY 'PROPAGANDA'
• WHERE IS ILLEGAL TO BE GAY?
• RSIA BANS BTS NCERT FILM BEE IS EMED ‘GAY’
• RSIA ENACTS ANTI-GAY ADOPTN BAN
• NOT THE ONN: MOSW BANS GAY PRI FOR NEXT 100 YEARS

RSIA: EXPAND 'GAY PROPAGANDA' BAN PROGRS TOWARD LAW

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.

Rsia’s parliament has passed the third and fal readg of a law banng “LGBT propaganda” among all adults, as Mosw ramps up s nservative ph at home amid the war Ukrae that passed the ne-month mark on bill crimalis any act regard as an attempt to promote what Rsia lls “non-tradnal sexual relatns” – film, onle, advertisg or public – and expands on a notor 2013 law that banned “propaganda of nontradnal sexual relatns” among mors and was ed to ta gay rights the new law, dividuals n be fed up to 400, 000 roubl (£5, 400) and anisatns 5m roubl (£68, 500) for “propagandisg nontradnal sexual relatns”, while foreigners uld face up to 15 days’ arrt and expulsn om rights groups and LGBTQ+ activists say the extensn of the law means any act or public mentn of same-sex relatnships is functnally beg Rsian print, Vladimir Put, is expected to sign the bill the g the start of the war Ukrae, the Kreml has lnched a h effort to promote “tradnal valu”, wh the Rsian lear makg anti-gay rhetoric one of the rnerston of his polil a recent speech, Put acced the wt of “movg towards open satanism”, cg the promotn of gay and transgenr rights Europe as an example. ”Kochetkov said the bill was also an attempt by the Kreml to look for ternal enemi and distract attentn om battlefield past newsletter promotnafter newsletter promotnHuman rights crics fear the law will be ed to close down pennt film and book ftivals, makg the topic of gay sexual orientatn sentially taboo Rsia.

Kochetkov’s LGBT Network, wh a number of other human rights groups, has also received the “foreign agent” label, a Soviet-era tag signed to target groups the thori say receive “foreign fundg” and engage “polil activy” while the Rsian ernment has expand s attacks on LGBTQ+ rights, recent pollg has dited parts of Rsian society are beg more tolerant towards the gay muny, wh a 2019 poll showg that 68% of younger Rsians view the LGBTQ+ muny as “normal” July, Daria Kasatka, Rsia’s hight-ranked female tennis player, me out as gay, a move appld by fellow athlet and parts of the Rsian public.

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

Image source, RtersThe ntroversial Rsian ban agast promotg so-lled "gay propaganda" looks set to be extend to all move reprents a tougheng of an existg 2013 law, which mak providg rmatn about beg LGBT to children a crimal nvicted face large f for promotg what Rsia lls "non-tradnal sexual relatns" ial approval of the extensn was voted through by the Rsian State Duma unanimoly. Unr the proposal, rmatn about "non-tradnal liftyl" or "the rejectn of fay valu" would be nsired legally the same as pornography, the promotn of vlence, or stokg racial, ethnic and relig also bans the "propaganda of paedophilia" - which the Rsian ernment often nflat wh beg gay.

Another element of the extensns prohibs rmatn which might "e mors to sire to change their sex", a reference to transgenr enacted, the law would allow any rmatn on the ter discsg LGBT topics to be blocked and films emed to nta posive pictns of beg gay to be banned. Khshte, an MP om Mr Put's Uned Rsia Party, told the Duma that the "special operatn" - what the Rsian ernment sists on llg s war Ukrae - is happeng "not only on the battlefield, but also the mds and souls of people" rhetoric follows that of the Rsian print, who has ma beg anti-gay a rnerstone of his domtic agenda and thorarian speech annexg four Ukraian terrori last month, Mr Put ranted about fai wh a "parent number one and a parent number two" - what has been terpreted as a cricism of same-sex fai. The draft legislatn classifi displays of non-heterosexual relatns or orientatn as “rmatn harmful to children’s health and velopment” and provis that webs and other onle sourc hostg rmatn about lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people n be blocked.

“The 2013 ‘gay propaganda’ law was an unabashed example of polil homophobia, and the new draft legislatn amplifi that broar and harsher ways, ” said Tanya Loksha, associate Europe and Central Asia director at Human Rights Watch. The ntroversial law was met wh cricism and ridicule Wtern untri, cludg a lg the European Court of Human Rights 2017 that stated Rsia’s “gay propaganda law” is discrimatory, promot homophobia and vlat the European Conventn on Human Rights.

GAY TIKTOK UPLE ARRTED RSIA

MOSCOW, Nov 24 (Rters) - Rsia's parliament approved on Thursday a bill that wins a prohibn of "LGBT propaganda" and rtricts the "monstratn" of LGBT behavur, makg any exprsn of an LGBT liftyle almost the new law, which still needs the approval of the upper hoe of parliament and Print Vladimir Put, any actn or rmatn that is nsired an attempt to promote homosexualy - whether public, onle, or films, books or advertisg - uld cur a heavy fe.

MALE STATE: RSIA BANS GROUP FOR ANTI-WOMEN AND ANTI-GAY POSTS

'HYBRID WARFARE'"LGBT today is an element of hybrid warfare and this hybrid warfare we mt protect our valu, our society and our children, " Alexanr Khste, one of the bill's archects, said last experts said the vaguens of the bill's language giv room for law enforcers to terpret them as broadly as they wish, leavg members of the LGBT muny a state of even greater take part the LGBT (lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr) muny rally "VIII St. REUTERS/Anton Vaganov/File PhotoKseniya Mikhailova of the LGBT support group Vykhod ("Comg Out") said adults-only gay bars or clubs would probably still be allowed to functn, although perhaps not to advertise, but that same-sex kissg public might be taken as an she said same-sex upl would beg to fear that their children might be taken om them on the grounds that they were havg an LGBT liftyle monstrated to law stipulat f of up to 400, 000 roubl ($6, 600) for dividuals and up to 5 ln roubl ($82, 100) for legal enti. Authori have already ed existg laws to stop gay pri march and ta gay rights the new bill, passed unanimoly on s first readg by the lower hoe State Duma, any event or act emed to promote homosexualy - onle, film, books, advertisg or public - uld cur a hefty fe.

Lawmakers say they are fendg moraly the face of what they argue are "un-Rsian" liberal valu promoted by the Wt, but human rights groups say the mov are signed to outlaw reprentatns of mori such as lbians, gay men, bisexuals and transgenr people (LGBT) public the legislatn, cizens uld be fed up to 400, 000 roubl ($6, 500) for promotg "LGBT propaganda" enti face f of up to 5 ln roubl, while foreigners found guilty of offenc would face portatn om Rsia. 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.

RSIAN NSTUTN CHANGE ENDS HOP FOR GAY MARRIAGE

Rearchers said the figur are an unrtimate as many hate crim are not reported, vtigated or ‘gay propaganda’ law, which has been ed to stop gay pri march and to ta gay rights activists, is seen by many as a move by Print Vladimir Put to crack down on dissent and draw closer to the Rsian Orthodox was ranked Europe’s send least LGBT-iendly natn 2016 by ILGA-Europe, a work of European LGBT. The young woman who only intified herself to Dimrov by the name Elena said that sce the latt passage of laws cludg expansn of the Rsia’s “gay propaganda” law to clu adults last December, upled wh the crackdown by the Rsian Feral Service for Supervisn of Communitns, Informatn Technology and Mass Media, abbreviated as Roskomnadzor, on any webs and on popular phone apps that ter to LGBTQ people, she has now begun efforts earnt to leave the untry. Image ptn, The group's founr Vladislav Pozdnyakov has an Instagram acuntA Rsian urt has banned as "extremist" a social media movement lled Male State, for cg hatred of women and gay week YouTube and the msagg service Telegram blocked accs to channels n by Male State's founr, Vladislav group, set up 2016, has attracted thoands of followers.

RSIA MOV TO BAN GAY MARRIAGE

Pozdnyakov is said to be now urt Nizhny Novgorod, a cy on the Volga river about 440km (273 ) east of Mosw, accepted the prosecutor's evince that Male State had hound women and gay people example was the group's targetg of a shi rtrant cha lled Tani. Sexism and homophobia are wispread Rsia, but those exprsg such prejudic are not often December 2018 Pozdnyakov was sentenced to two years jail for extremism, after a prosecutor had acced his group of "activi aimed at nigratg women". Dozens of other activists received ath threats om an obscure anti-gay group that claimed rponsibily for the killg of Grigoryeva, who was stabbed repeatedly and showed signs of 2017, reports of extrajudicial arrts, torture and killgs of gay men the republic of Chechnya drew ternatnal year, Andrei Vaganov and Yevgeny Yerofeyev, a uple raisg two adopted children, had to flee Rsia after a doctor reported them to police and thori opened a crimal se.

”Print Vladimir Put has rejected cricism of the nstutnal amendments and the gay propaganda said that some untri, “crimal law provisns still exist unr which people of nontradnal sexual orientatn n be persecuted crimally, as was the Soviet Unn.

PUT EXPANDS ‘GAY PROPAGANDA’ BAN, THREATENG LGBTQ CRACKDOWN

Dec 5 (Rters) - Rsian Print Vladimir Put on Monday signed a law expandg Rsia's rtrictns on the promotn of what lls "LGBT propaganda", effectively outlawg any public exprsn of LGBT behavur or liftyle the new law, which wins Rsia's terpretatn of what qualifi as "LGBT propaganda", any actn or the spreadg of any rmatn that is nsired an attempt to promote homosexualy public, onle, or films, books or advertisg, uld cur a heavy law expands Rsia's prev law agast LGBT propaganda that had banned the "monstratn" of LGBT behavur to as the Kreml exerts creased prsure on mory groups and opponents of Put at home, quashg pennt media groups and further stiflg ee speech as Mosw ramps up a -long mpaign to promote what says are "tradnal" valu. Authori have already ed the existg law to stop gay pri march and ta gay rights groups say the new law is tend to drive so-lled "non-tradnal" LGBT liftyl practised by lbians, gay men, bisexuals and transgenr people out of public life altogether. Photographer: Olga Maltseva/AFP/Getty ImagRsian Print Vladimir Put signed to law on Monday a sweepg ban on the posive portrayal of gay relatnships books, films, the media and the Inter, regardls of ban on “propaganda of non-tradnal sexual relatns” expands Rsia’s 2013 law that prohibed the promotn of homosexualy to children.

Multiple discrimatory laws have been passed sce, startg wh 2013 legislatn rtrictg LGBTQ+ rights known as the "gay propaganda" law, which banned any public endorsement of "nontradnal sexual relatns" among the vasn of Ukrae last year, Rsian thori ratcheted up their rhetoric, methodilly weedg out anythg they emed a "gradg Wtern fluence, " cludg rights groups that advoted anythg om helpg domtic abe victims to prervg rerds of Soviet 2022, the origal law targetg "gay propaganda" was expand to ver adults, outlawg any posive or even ntral reprentatn of LGBTQ+ people the public sphere, movi, lerature or media, forcg the already rare number of LGBTQ+-iendly spac to executive director of the Inpennt Psychiatric Associatn of Rsia, Lyubov Vogradova, lled the law "misanthropic" ments to the Rsian newspaper Kommersant late June. Petersburg and Mosw have been marked by state vlence and arrts, while an crease the number of attacks on LGBTQ people throughout Rsia—both by dividuals and by anized homophobic groups—creased after the 2013 law, acrdg to a 2014 report published by Human Rights Watch. In 2017, the European Court of Human Rights led that Rsia’s “gay propaganda law” was discrimatory, promoted homophobia, and vlated the European Conventn on Human Rights and that “served no legimate public tert.

WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT RSIA’S SO-CALLED ‘GAY PROPAGANDA’ BILL

Image source, Getty ImagImage ptn, Kamala Harris has been a vol supporter of LGBTQ rightsUS Vice-Print Kamala Harris who is on a tour of three Ain untri - Ghana, Tanzania and Zambia - has drawn cricism over her support for LGBTQ Ghana, a speech llg for "all people be treated equally" she appeared to cricise a bill before the untry's parliament which crimalis advocy for gay rights and propos jail terms for those that intify as lbian, gay, bisexual, or untry's Speaker Alban Bagb later lled her remarks "unmocratic" and urged lawmakers not to be "timidated by any person" Tanzania, a former mister spoke agast US support for LGBTQ rights ahead of the vis and Zambia some opposn policians have threatened to hold is homosexualy still outlawed? In the same month, the high urt Barbados stck out laws that crimalised gay July last year, the urts Antigua and Barbuda clared a law crimalisg same-sex acts between nsentg adults Febary 2021, Angola's Print Joao Louren signed to law a revised penal to allow same-sex relatnships and ban discrimatn on the basis of sexual 2020, Gabon reversed a law that had crimalised homosexualy and ma gay sex punishable wh six months prison and a large fe. Mozambique and the Seychell have also scrapped anti-homosexualy laws recent there are untri where existg laws outlawg homosexualy have been tightened, cludg Nigeria and 's parliament recently passed a law to crack down on homosexual activi, promptg wispread source, Getty ImagImage ptn, Campaign agast LGBTQ rights some Ain untri has tensified recent weeksAnd some untri, efforts to get the laws removed have May 2019, the high urt Kenya upheld laws crimalisg homosexual acts.

Although the origal Brish laws applied only to men, untri that crimalise homosexualy today also have penalti for women who have sex wh Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn (Ilga) monors the progrs of laws relatg to homosexualy around the says the ath penalty is the legally prcribed punishment for same-sex sexual acts Bnei, Iran, Mrania, Sdi Arabia, Yemen and some northern stat of five untri - Afghanistan, Pakistan, Qatar, Somalia, and the Uned Arab Emirat - there is no legal clary and the ath penalty uld be source, AFPImage ptn, An Indian gay rights activist protts agast a urt lg 2013 upholdg a law which crimalis gay repealed the ath penalty for nsensual same-sex sexual acts observers note that the risk of prosecutn some plac is mimal. Earlier Rsia's bt-known gay rights mpaigner, Nikolay Alexeyev, had gone to urt hopg to overturn the cy uncil's ban on gay had asked for the right to stage such paras for the next 100 also oppos St Petersburg's ban on spreadg "homosexual propaganda". The European Court of Human Rights has told Rsia to pay him Friday he said he would go back to the European Court Strasbourg to ph for a regnn that Mosw's ban on gay pri march - past, prent and future - was Mosw cy ernment argu that the gay para would risk g public disorr and that most Mv do not support such an September, the Council of Europe - the ma human rights watchdog Europe - will exame Rsia's rponse to a prev European Court lg on the gay rights issue, Rsian media report.

And particularly where that base of support is close to relig views, there is a lot of crossover there that works for polil opportunists who are g official forms of homophobia to fe their polil That is Dan Healey, profsor of Rsian history at the Universy of Oxford. Rsia's parliament has unanimoly passed a feral law banng gay "propaganda" amid a Kreml ph to enshre eply nservative valu that crics say has already led to a sharp crease anti-gay law passed 436-0 on Tuday, wh jt one puty abstag om votg on the bill, which bans the spreadg of "propaganda of non-tradnal sexual relatns" among law effect mak illegal to equate straight and gay relatnships, as well as the distributn of material on gay rights. Mut after passg the anti-gay legislatn, the Duma also approved a new law allowg jail sentenc of up to three years for "offendg relig feelgs", an iative lnched the wake of the trial agast the anti-Kreml punk band Psy two laws were wily cricised by Rsia's margalised liberal and human rights muni and e amid a wir crackdown agast pennt civil activy the untry.

RSIAN PARLIAMENT MOV TO EXPAND 'GAY PROPAGANDA' LAW

Put, who often mak a show of his fah, has creasgly lled upon the church to fill his own iologil vacuum followg a ntted printial electn last year, acpanied by unprecented protts agast se agast Psy Rt – which three members were found guilty of "hooliganism motivated by relig hatred" after performg an anti-Put anthem si a Mosw church – was wily seen as the lnch of an ultra-nservative 's anti-gay law, whose text was softened to remove explic referrals to "homosexual propaganda", troduc f of up to 100, 000 roubl (£1, 975) for dividuals who have ed the media or ter to promote "non-tradnal relatns". After sger Elton John slammed Rsia’s censorship of gay scen the 2019 bpic Rocketman, Put claimed that the sger’s characterizatn that he is hostile to “polici that embrace multicultural and sexual diversy” is a “mistake. In five untri and parts of two others, homosexualy is still punishable wh the ath penalty, while a further 70 imprison cizens bee of their sexual where homosexualy is legal, many untri treat those same-sex relatnships differently, such as havg an unequal age of nsent or a ban on marriage.

Screeng of BTS’ ncert film, schled Rsia’s southern republic of Dagtan, has been ncelled followg accatns that the South Korean boyband is “gay” group’s h film BTS World Tour: Love Yourself In Seoul was set to be shown at a cema the cy of Makhachkala after hundreds of lol fans had led a social-media mpaign to back that move. Though there was no official ban until now, foreigners’ attempts to adopt Rsian children before the cree generally would be unsuccsful if a prospective adoptive parent was thought to be gay, ternatnal adoptn agenci based Rsia have said.

HOMOSEXUALY: THE UNTRI WHERE IS ILLEGAL TO BE GAY

Photo Illtratn by Thomas Levson/The Daily Beast/GettyWhen the lower chamber of the Rsian parliament passed a new law banng genr-affirmg surgery for transgenr people, nfirmed Milana Romanova’s worst fear: The relative eedom that transgenr people had enjoyed Rsia sce 1997, durg her entire life, was new law—passed Friday, and which now go to the upper chamber and Print Put for fal approval—hted dangeroly of creasg medil prsure on gay and transgenr people: Put had personally orred the mistry of health to create a special “psychiatric stute” to study LGBTQ people. Rsian gay men were arrted and sentenced to 5 years of prison USSR, punished by crimal law for nearly seven s until post-Pertroika reforms, after which ternatnal gay and lbian symposiums, film ftivals beme popular. Mosw's cy and district urts are unison that gay pri paras Mosw will be banned until at least 2112 -- 100 years om Rights First is already out wh s nmnatn:Human Rights First nmns the Tverskoy District Court lg to uphold the cisn of Mosw thori to ban gay pri paras the cy until May 2112.

GAY PARAS BANNED MOSW FOR 100 YEARS

Rsia -- strategilly important, a key member of the UN P-5, a untry Ameri mt work wh on challeng rangg om Iran to Syria to global oil and energy issu, wh a steady and mostly sensible foreign mister -- is creasgly beg a farce among natns, s serns dissolvg wh idtic gtur like this gay ban. Crics said the oute was falsified, somethg thori, who has aligned himself wh the Rsian Orthodox Church and sought to distance Rsia om liberal Wtern valu, has said he will not legalise gay marriage as long as he is the Kreml.

Enshrg a facto ban the nstutn means any potential succsors would fd hard to legalise same-sex marriage even if they wanted draft legislatn, which is expected to be swiftly approved by the State Duma, the lower hoe of parliament, explicly bans gay marriage and outlaws same sex upl adoptg children, somethg they nnot now do practice Mizula, a senator and one of the thors of the legislatn, said the marriage and adoptn ban would also extend to transgenr people, the Interfax news agency reported.

RSIA PROPOS EXTENDG ‘GAY PROPAGANDA’ LAW TO ALL ADULTS

RSIA PASS LAW BANNG GAY 'PROPAGANDA'

WHERE IS ILLEGAL TO BE GAY?

RSIA BANS BTS NCERT FILM BEE IS EMED ‘GAY’

RSIA ENACTS ANTI-GAY ADOPTN BAN

NOT THE ONN: MOSW BANS GAY PRI FOR NEXT 100 YEARS