Human Rights Watch released a seri of vios the group says shows that the beatg and abe of gays has bee wispread. One 17-year-old om Sochi who was btalized says Rsia's new anti-gay propaganda law has been taken as enuragement by anti-gay groups. Mark Phillips reports.
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- VIOS SHOW WISPREAD ABE OF GAYS RSIA, ADVOT SAY
- RSIAN MAN TORTURED TO ATH FOR 'BEG GAY'
- VIO DEPICTS HORRIFIC ATTACK ON GAY MAN RSIA
VIOS SHOW WISPREAD ABE OF GAYS RSIA, ADVOT SAY
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Human Rights Watch released a seri of vios the group says shows that the beatg and abe of gays has bee wispread. One 17-year-old om Sochi who was btalized says Rsia's new anti-gay propaganda law has been taken as enuragement by anti-gay groups. A 23-year-old man has been tortured to ath Rsia an apparent homophobic attack, vtigators said Sunday, amid growg fears by rights groups that anti-gay sentiments are on the rise the victim's battered and naked body was found the urtyard of an apartment buildg the southern cy of Volgograd on Friday morng, said a spokwoman for regnal young man had suffered numero juri, cludg to the genalia, and had been sexually asslted wh several beer bottl.
"He was raped wh beer bottl and had his skull smashed wh a stone, " Natalia Kunskaya, a spokwoman for the Volgograd regn branch of the Invtigative Commtee, told nfirmed the attack was believed to have been a hate crime, a rare admissn om Rsian law enforcement agenci on the sensive issue of homophobia the men aged 22 and 27 have been taed nnectn wh the attack, the Mosw-based Invtigative Commtee said a statement on Saturday. Regnal vtigator Andrei Gapchenko told Echo of Mosw rad on Saturday that two men started beatg the victim after he told them he was gay. Rsia crimalised homosexualy 1993 and officially removed om the list of psychiatric disorrs homophobia remas wispread and socially acceptable, and almost no public figur have e out as gay.
Several Rsian regns have outraged rights mpaigners by approvg lol laws banng "gay propaganda" among mors, legislatn which is now beg discsed at the feral parliament.
RSIAN MAN TORTURED TO ATH FOR 'BEG GAY'
Print Vladimir Put, who pris himself on his macho image, has repeatedly nied that Rsia was vlatg gay rights. But he recently warned that Rsia uld change agreements for the adoptn of Rsian children wh Wtern untri that are legalisg gay marriage, such as France. Nikolai Alexeyev, the head of Gay Rsia, a group workg to raise the profile of gay rights, exprsed ncern that the Kreml's official rhetoric and recent legislative iativ uld be fuellg tolerance.
"Homophobic hysteria is beg creasgly promoted Rsia, " he told said attacks agast homosexuals are wispread the untry but are almost never vtigated as hate crim.
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.
VIO DEPICTS HORRIFIC ATTACK ON GAY MAN RSIA
“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. 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.
He thought of creatg Gay Water about a year ago while on a vatn wh his iend that had got a job wh the beverage dtry. The two chatted about the limed amount of gay people wh , and wh Hodson burnt out om his tradnal day job tech, started the nned cktail.