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• A RSIAN COURT RULED YOU CAN’T DEPICT VLADIMIR PUT AS A GAY CLOWN RSIA
• RSIA BANS IMAG OF PUT LKED TO ‘GAY CLOWN’ MEME
• IT’S NOW ILLEGAL RSIA TO SHARE AN IMAGE OF PUT AS A GAY CLOWN
• PUT BANS IMAG OF HIM AS GAY CLOWN; STEPHEN COLBERT MAK VIO SHOWG EXACTLY THAT (VIO)
• RSIA JT BANNED A ‘GAY CLOWN’ PICTURE OF VLADIMIR PUT, ONLY NO ONE IS SURE WHICH ONE IS

A RSIAN COURT RULED YOU CAN’T DEPICT VLADIMIR PUT AS A GAY CLOWN RSIA

The Rsian Jtice Mistry has banned the e of an image pictg Print Vladmir Put wearg make-up, apparently reactg to the photo’s implitn that Print Put might be gay. It is now illegal Rsia to distribute any imag that pict Print Vladimir Put wearg makp and implyg he is gay. Imag of Put, often wh rouged cheeks and eye shadow, have been onle sce 2011 – and have had much wir circulatn sce 2013 prott over what beme known as Rsia’s gay propaganda law.

They are wily known onle as the “gay clown” meme – although not all the imag remble clowns.

RSIA BANS IMAG OF PUT LKED TO ‘GAY CLOWN’ MEME

The law, which scrib homosexualy as “non-tradnal sexual relatns, ” bars the public discsn of gay rights and relatnships anywhere children might hear . It has been fiercely opposed by gay rights groups Rsia and beyond as well as by other human rights groups and the polil opposn Rsia. It was only 1993 and the llapse of the Soviet Unn that Rsia relaxed laws that banned homosexualy.

But wasn’t until six years later that homosexualy was dropped om a list of psychiatric disorrs Rsia. Rsia has banned a picture pictg Print Vladimir Put as a potentially gay clown. Rsian news outlets are havg trouble reportg exactly which image of the Inter's many Put-gay-clown mem is now illegal to share.

”Item 4071: a picture of a Put-like person “wh ey and lips ma up, ” ptned wh an implic anti-gay slur, implyg “the supposed nonstandard sexual orientatn of the print of the Rsian Feratn. ”The Mosw Tim thks probably looks like this:That poster beme popular 2013, after Rsia passed a law banng propagandizg to children about “nontradnal sexual relatns, ” and gay rights protters were beaten and gay Put mem have proliferated as Rsia has cracked down on both sexual liberti and onle speech recent, another news se thks the banned image is this one:(The other man that picture is Rsian Prime Mister Dmry Medvev, by the way. A year later, many of the imag he shared were add to the ernment's thoands-strong blacklist of “extremist materials” — wh the potentially gay clown listed right above a picture of Put and Medvev as Nazi readg:.

IT’S NOW ILLEGAL RSIA TO SHARE AN IMAGE OF PUT AS A GAY CLOWN

Vladimir Put has banned all pictur pictg him as a potentially gay clown, so “Late Show” host Stephen Colbert put together his own “artistic terpretatn” of Rsia’s print as exactly that. “Bee this is Ameri — for now — and we n do anythg we want, the ‘Late Show’ has put together s own artistic terpretatn of Vladimir Put, gay in, ” he told dienc on Friday night.

PUT BANS IMAG OF HIM AS GAY CLOWN; STEPHEN COLBERT MAK VIO SHOWG EXACTLY THAT (VIO)

Before Colbert shared his creative take on Put, he explaed that is now illegal Rsia to share pictur of Put as a gay clown.

Rsian outlets are havg trouble figurg out exactly which image of the ter’s many mem pictg Put as a gay clown — bee ’s been banned. But ‘gay’ and ‘clown, ’ нет, ra!

Colbert listed some issu wh this new ban, given that ’s hard to differentiate a straight clown om a gay clown.

RSIA JT BANNED A ‘GAY CLOWN’ PICTURE OF VLADIMIR PUT, ONLY NO ONE IS SURE WHICH ONE IS

He then showed exampl that uld have been the trigger for the ban, like, Put adorned wh lorful makp, wh the words “Stop Homofobia” wrten over his forehead.

“I’m not sure the banned picture is eher one of those, bee we found another picture of Vladimir Put that some would say is by far the gayt of all time, ” he said, showg the famo picture of Put ridg on horseback shirtls 2009.

“I n see that guy leadg a gay pri para, easily!