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Contents:

• GAY LOVE FILMS ULD BE CLASSED AS ‘HARDRE PORNOGRAPHY’ REQUIRG ‘SPECIAL ACCS’ RSIA
• RSIAN GAY DU
• 1 5 RSIANS WANT GAYS AND LBIANS 'ELIMATED,' SURVEY FDS
• GAY MAN RSIA FORCED TO HIDG OVER YOUTUBE TERVIEW
• 25 BT GAY LIVE CAMS: GAY CAM S TO VIS INCLUDG 100 PERCENT FREE GAY CAMS
• GAY SCHOOL PORN VIOS
• HYPNOSIS AND HOLY WATER: RSIAN 'CUR' FOR GAY PEOPLE
• KEV SPACEY DEFENDS COMG OUT AS GAY AFTER BEG ACCED OF SEXUAL MISNDUCT: ‘I WAS UNR A LOT OF PRSURE’
• GAY WEDDGS FOR RSIA: HOW THE SIMS BEME A BATTLEGROUND FOR THE LGBTQ+ MUNY
• 15 BT GAY AND LGBTQ PORNSTARS 2023
• I’M 43 – BUT I’M MA TO FEEL LIKE A DOSR BY YOUNGER GAY MEN
• MOSW’S WAR UKRAE BROUGHT HARSH TACTICS AGAST GAY RSIANS AT HOME
• INSI THE IRON CLOSET: WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE GAY PUT'S RSIA

GAY LOVE FILMS ULD BE CLASSED AS ‘HARDRE PORNOGRAPHY’ REQUIRG ‘SPECIAL ACCS’ RSIA

Films about gay love, such as Brokeback Mounta, would require ‘special accs’ (Picture: Foc/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock)Films about gay love stori uld soon require ‘special accs’ like hardre pornography Rsia, as s parliament nsirs a new bill.

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Milonov, who has prevly been reprimand by Rsia’s Human Rights Council after ments llg for LGBT+ people to be ‘sterilised’, add that films about gay love would e unr classifitn like porn. Rsia has a long history of censorship of LGBT+ ntent s media and acrdg to reports om RT, the Rsian Public Opn Rearch Center (VTsIOM) released a survey showg that 80 per cent of people Rsia thk is ‘unacceptable’ to show gay sex scen films, even if are rated for over 18s.

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The untry also passed the ‘gay propaganda law’ 2013 ‘for the purpose of protectg children om rmatn advotg for a nial of tradnal fay valu’ to prevent children om beg ‘exposed to homosexualy’.

It was also cricised for leadg to an crease and jtifitn of homophobic vlence, wh the European Court of Human Rights lg 2017 that was ‘discrimatory and, over all, serv no legimate public tert. As well as potential new rtrictns on films about gay love, earlier this month a Rsian TV channel was fed over £10, 000 for vlatg the ‘gay propaganda law’ for broadstg a man wearg a drs at the Muz-TV awards, as well as two men arrivg at the awards together, wh their teles watchdog sayg the show should have been marked as 18+ for the imag to be shown.

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Nearly 1 5 Rsians want to “elimate” gay and lbian people om society, acrdg to a new survey, a fdg that has ced fear and anger among LGBTQ activists the untry. ”The survey, published this week by the Levada Center, a nonernmental rearch anizatn based Mosw, also found that 32 percent of rponnts wanted to “isolate” gay men and lbians om society, pared to 9 percent who wanted to “assist” them. Unr the legislatn, also known as the “gay propaganda law, ” any act or event that thori em to promote homosexualy to children is punishable by a fe.

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Over the past several years, there have also been a number of disturbg reports of state-sponsored tentn, vlence and torture agast gay and bisexual men Chechnya, a semitonomo Rsian regn“The state giv the signal that LGBT people are not real people, that they are send- or even third-class cizens, ” Zakharova said.

”Dpe reports of creased vlence and the enactment of the “gay propaganda law, ” Kocherga said the suatn has improved over the past three s, when the Soviet Man project first started. “Thgs om a polil pot of view have bee worse, but still somehow Rsian nscns tri to be better, ” she said, notg that 1989, the survey’s first year, 35 percent of those polled wanted to “elimate” gays and lbians, pared to 18 percent the latt fdgs. “It’s nice to see that actually the willgns to see homosexuals, to accept them, is actually risg, ” Kocherga poted to a separate survey released by the Levada Center last year that found Rsian attus toward LGBTQ people — while still predomantly negative — have improved, pecially among young, ted women.

Twenty percent of last year’s participants said they pletely agree that gay men and lbians should have equal rights Rsia, pared to jt 7 percent 2013 when the “gay propaganda law” was passed.

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The 2019 data also found that those wh gay and lbian acquatanc have more posive attus toward sexual Zakharova said the suatn for the untry’s lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer muny is ed dire, the Rsian people are “not as homophobic as thori or feral mass media try to portray them.

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.

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?

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“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.

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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.

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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. Image source, ptn, Christian Pastor Pervetov claims relign n cure gay "perversn"Controversial "treatments" by psychotherapists and preachers are beg offered to gay people Rsian heard acunts of so-lled cur, after emerged that gay men were beg persecuted Chechnya, a maly Mlim republic southern Tuday German Chancellor Angela Merkel said she had asked Print Vladimir Put to "e his fluence to protect the rights of mori", referrg to the reports om Chechnya. Rsia removed homosexualy om s list of regnised psychiatric ndns 1999 - after the US had done so 1973 and the World Health Organizatn 1992.

Globally, scientists do not regnise any "treatment" of homosexualy as effective or source, AFPImage ptn, Arrt of an LGBT activist: Rsian law bans gay "propaganda" aimed at young peopleHypnosis and self-helpPsychotherapist Yan Goland, om the cy of Nizhny Novgorod, says he has "cured" 78 gay and eight transsexual people g a method veloped the Soviet Unn by his teacher, Nikolai told the BBC that the "treatment" lasted between eight and 18 months, and longer for transsexuals.

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"Mr Goland is now 80 and says he is still "treatg" more on Rsian LGBT issu:Image source, Getty ImagImage ptn, There are claims that hypnosis n help some people stgglg wh their sexualyA Rsian web search on "how to cure homosexualy" brgs up var webs offerg onle nsultatns wh doctors. "Their hypnotherapy aims to -strs the patient and teach them the "right ways to behave and react" brothers boast they have already "treated" seven gay people who wanted to be straight and say there is "no chance of them relapsg".

"You normally bee aware of your sexual orientatn between 11 and 13 years of age… There are several different orientatns and homosexualy is one of the normal variants, " says psychologist Pavel Sobolevsky, who works wh LGBT patients. Attempts to change your sexual orientatn through psychotherapy n be damagg, he source, AFPImage ptn, The Rsian Orthodox Church se homosexualy as sfulVar relig anisatns are offerg "treatments" for refed to go to tails, sayg they would only divulge them to relig Pastor Yevgeny Pervetov did speak. It promis to help gay people "reject" their anisatn's YouTube channel has acunts of two men who have "liberated themselv om s" by "riddg themselv of homosexualy" pastor, wearg a smart su and a J portra on his tie, leads Sunday servic a Mosw club.

"Children forced to 'treatment'Some Rsian fai turn to relig stutns to "cure" children who have e, 27, was taken to church agast her will by her fay to "treat" her homosexualy when she was only 13. The simple fact is that many gays and lbians lead double liv as they hi their te clatns om those clost to I lead my double life, I’m begng to dwell upon what implitns this will have on my aspiratns to the prithood. Apparently, I had breached Sectn 3 of Rsia’s now famo “gay propaganda bill” which prohibs “The spreadg of rmatn givg a distorted perceptn about the social equaly between tradnal and non-tradnal sexual relatns to mors.