The untry's vol relig right is obssed wh protectg children om sexual rmatn, and 's tramplg gay rights the procs.
Contents:
- RUSSIA: ‘GAY PROPAGANDA’ LAW REMAS PLACE, BUT PLATS AGAST NTUE
- HOW RSIAN PDISHNS PRODUCED AN ANTI-GAY LAW
- GAY TIKTOK UPLE ARRTED RSIA
- THE LONG LIFE OF RSIA’S GAY PROPAGANDA LAW
- RSIAN LAWMAKERS MOVE TO TOUGHEN ‘GAY PROPAGANDA’ LAW, BANNG ALL ADULTS OM ‘PROMOTG’ SAME-SEX RELATNSHIPS
RUSSIA: ‘GAY PROPAGANDA’ LAW REMAS PLACE, BUT PLATS AGAST NTUE
SummaryIn 2013 Rsia enacted a feral law prohibg what lled “gay propaganda”, g the protectn of children as an exce to silence any public discsns or posive msag about LGBT issu. BackgroundRsia’s first “gay propaganda” law was brought to force an admistrative regn not far outsi of Mosw 2006. Ostensibly foced on the “Protectn of the Moraly of Children”, the law the Ryazan Oblast prohibed “public actns aimed at propaganda of homosexualy (sodomy or lbianism) among mors”.
It was amend to make an offence to take part “the promotn of homosexualy among mors” 2008, jtified by cg the myth that gay men plan to “rec” young people to beg homosexual. The laws me to force at a time when openly homophobic rhetoric was risg Rsia, and LGBT rights anisatns have sce lked their adoptn Rsia to an crease vlence agast LGBT people and a crease protectn for LGBT people om the 2013 the untry’s children’s missner went so far as to say that protectn of the “tradnal fay” was a matter of natnal secury, and that policians who opposed this prry should be “cursed for centuri as stroyers of the fay and the human race”.
Settg up a picket outsi a sendary school he unfurled two banners proclaimg: “Homosexualy is normal” and “I am proud of my homosexualy”.
HOW RSIAN PDISHNS PRODUCED AN ANTI-GAY LAW
One claimed that a lack of rmatn about LGBT rights ntributed to Rsia havg the world’s hight teenage suici rate, while the other listed a number of proment Rsian public figur believed to be gay. Like Bayev, they had travelled to stage a prott that would potentially see them fed unr the regn’s “gay propaganda” law, the hop that they would be able to succsfully ntt eher their f or the nstutnaly of the laws themselv.
This challenge was readily were arrted and fed, and Alekseyev was fed aga 2012 while prottg another “gay propaganda” law St Petersburg, after holdg a sign which read “Homosexualy is not a perversn. ”Knowg that Rsian urts had prevly taken to acunt lgs of Uned Natns bodi, Bartenev had also referred to a 2012 Human Rights Commtee cisn which Ryazan Oblast’s “gay propaganda” law was found to have vlated a prottor’s right to eedom of exprsn. The judg led that Rsia had failed to monstrate how eedom of exprsn on LGBT issu would adversely affect “tradnal fai” and said the European Court would not beg to endorse polici “which embodied a predisposed bias on the part of a heterosexual majory agast a homosexual mory”.
The urt nmned Rsia’s attempts to draw parallels between homosexualy and paedophilia and argued that, fact, the prentatn of objective rmatn about sex and genr inty should be nsired an dispensable part of public-health policy. Fally, the urt dismissed the ernment’s allegatns that children uld be enticed to a “homosexual liftyle” on the grounds that there was no evince at all to that effect.
GAY TIKTOK UPLE ARRTED RSIA
The lg ultimately found that Rsia’s “gay propaganda” law was open to abe dividual s and rerced stigma and prejudice agast LGBT people.
Between 2013 and 2015 Moldova, Ukrae and Lhuania eher abolished or whdrew siar “gay propaganda”-style legislatn, markg a move away om discrimatn the “gay propaganda” law ntu to be ed Rsia, more challeng to are ntug to e forward. After appealg agast a nvictn for sharg “gay propaganda” he was shocked to see his sentence reversed.
THE LONG LIFE OF RSIA’S GAY PROPAGANDA LAW
The untry's vol relig right is obssed wh protectg children om sexual rmatn, and 's tramplg gay rights the procs. A gay-rights activist holds a board that reads, "I'm a person, not propaganda" St.
On , a shouty, flamboyant host v people to air their grievanc, ually pryg tears om guts and viewers the 2012, an episo on gay rights Rsia quickly volved to a circ of myopia.
Another helpfully suggted that gay people go “do the forts of the North.
RSIAN LAWMAKERS MOVE TO TOUGHEN ‘GAY PROPAGANDA’ LAW, BANNG ALL ADULTS OM ‘PROMOTG’ SAME-SEX RELATNSHIPS
”One of the few gay-rights fenrs on the show was a soft-spoken St. Petersburg activist who retreated further to his chair each time someone referred to homosexualy as a “tragedy. ” Another Rsian gay activist joed the program by tele-lk om Hamburg, and uld barely stifle his glee at havg left his one pot, a beard standard-bearer of the Rsian Orthodox Church appeared and blsed the dience wh a massive iron cross before takg a seat.
” She add that would be unthkable for anyone her fay to ever e out as gay. Fally, another gut cid to stick up for the untry’s homosexuals: “We mt remember, ” he said, “that as a le gay people are very talented.
”***Talk shows are never a good mirror of society, but this se the participants’ sentiments reflect real nversatns Rsia: Only 16 percent of Rsians told the Pew Rearch Center that homosexualy should be accepted, the lowt number among the European untri untry’s 2013 law agast “gay propaganda” has prompted protts and boytts and doodl. Activists are now urgg Internatnal Olympic Commtee Print Thomas Bach to make sure that no future Olympic host untry harbors discrimatory polici agast 's temptg to chalk up Rsia’s anti-gay ph to pure hate. But the fears of the Let Them Talk dience ht at one of the most important roots of anti-gay legislatn Rsia.