I grew up gay Put’s Rsia, where homosexuals are nmned, terrorized, and disenanchised. While reportg on an unsettlg “cure,” I wound up vtigatg my own sexualy.
Contents:
- RSIA TO GAYS: SHUT UP AND DISAPPEAR
- MY HARROWG JOURNEY THROUGH GAY CONVERSN THERAPY RSIA
- RSIA'S LGBT 'CONCENTRATN CAMPS': PRISONS FOR GAY MEN IN CHECHNYA, REPORTS SAY
- HOW TO SAY GAY RSIAN
RSIA TO GAYS: SHUT UP AND DISAPPEAR
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 over. The 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 * russian gay conversion *
About 30 years ago, the World Health Organizatn stopped nsirg homosexualy and bisexualy psychologil diseas. Rsia - where homophobia is an unofficial state policy - is one of them.
MY HARROWG JOURNEY THROUGH GAY CONVERSN THERAPY RSIA
* russian gay conversion *
Methods of the so-lled nversn therapy Rsia take different forms; the mlim-majory Northern Cs, where gay people are subject to a state-n mpaign of torture and murr, often hand hand wh relign. Ruals of exorcism, are wispread, wh mullahs - members of the clergy - tryg to expel geni that rry the s of homosexualy out of a person’s body. The mon way of “curg” homosexuals is by privg them of all ntact wh the outsi world and forcg them to perform difficult manual labour.
RSIA'S LGBT 'CONCENTRATN CAMPS': PRISONS FOR GAY MEN IN CHECHNYA, REPORTS SAY
Reports have surfaced that "ncentratn mps" have been opened up Chechnya where gay men are beg taed and tortured to m that they would leave the republic. * russian gay conversion *
Some proponents of gay nversn therapy openly advertise themselv. The most famo of them is Yan Goland, an 84-year-old psychotherapist om Nizhny Novgorod, who boasts to have “cured” more than 80 homosexuals.
For Goland and his lik, this psdotreatment is a source of e; but even some ee ernment clics ntually diagnose patients wh “homosexual orientatn, ” such as one clic Simferopol, Crimea did 2020. Margalisg LGBTQ+ people is a state-approved urse of actn, as showsed by the 2013 “Gay propaganda” law.
In a sea of nned cktails, Gay Water wants to stand out. 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.
HOW TO SAY GAY RSIAN
Gay Water, however, is out and proud.
The nned cktail is named after a lloquialism given to the popular mixed drk (vodka and soda) orred at bars by the gay muny. “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.