Vladimir Put's anti-gay propaganda laws have sought to stifle homosexual exprsn - but Sochi's openg ceremony featured some of the most proment homosexuals ternatnal history.
Contents:
- HOW SOCHI BEME THE GAY OLYMPICS
- GAY ATHLET COULD BE PROSECUTED AT 2014 WTER OLYMPICS, RSIAN LAWMAKER SUGGTS
- SOCHI 2014: GAY RIGHTS PROTTS TARGET RSIA'S GAM
- PUT’S PRI? SIX FAMO GAY SONS OF RSIA
- U.S. LEGATN TO RSIAN OLYMPICS CLUS GAY ATHLET
- WTER OLYMPICS: PUT UTNS GAY VISORS TO SOCHI
- RUPERT EVERETT JOS BOYTT OF RSIAN WTER OLYMPICS OVER ANTI-GAY LAWS
- WTER OLYMPICS: PUT 'IENDLY' WH GAY PEOPLE
- PROTTS, BOYTT LLS AS ANGER GROWS OVER RSIA ANTI-GAY PROPAGANDA LAWS
- VLADIMIR PUT: GAY PEOPLE AT WTER OLYMPICS MT 'LEAVE CHILDREN ALONE'
- STEPHEN FRY LLS FOR BAN ON WTER OLYMPICS RSIA OVER ANTI-GAY LAWS
- WHY RSIA’S SOCHI OLYMPICS ARE NOW A BATTLEGROUND FOR GAY RIGHTS
- RSIA, GAY RIGHTS, AND THE SOCHI OLYMPICS
- WILL GAYS BE SAFE AT RSIA’S WTER OLYMPICS?
HOW SOCHI BEME THE GAY OLYMPICS
Gay rights activists across the world prott agast the Rsian ernment, as Sochi awas the arrival of the Olympic torch. * russia winter olympics gay *
The Stonewall rts were more than a the past; a year earlier, reports had surfaced about rare pnmonia and ncer afflictg homosexuals New York and California—the first glimmers of what would later be lled AIDS.
” “Direct ntact” wh athlet om the natns, Day argued, would be enlighteng for Amerins livg a untry where ternatnal visors were often nied entry bee of their sexual s later, sports are once aga stirrg to take stock of gay rights around the world. Ultimately, the stlit Olympics history may be remembered for markg a perd which gay rights aren’t so much advancg globally as expandg certa parts of the world while regrsg or languishg 6, 000 athlet om 85 untri gather Sochi, the global gay-rights divi will be unmistakable.
GAY ATHLET COULD BE PROSECUTED AT 2014 WTER OLYMPICS, RSIAN LAWMAKER SUGGTS
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But gay rights only me to the fore the summer of 2013, when the Rsian ernment, which crimalized homosexualy 1993, banned the dissematn of “propaganda of nontradnal sexual relatns” around children—makg more difficult for gay activists to operate and, rights groups allege, fuelg a rise anti-gay vlence the untry. The mayor of Sochi sayg there were no gay people his cy didn’t help, perhaps the most provotive rebe to Rsia’s lims on LGBT rights, Print Obama has clud three openly gay athlet—Billie Jean Kg, Cal Cahow, and Brian Boano— the U.
Gay Olympic athlet have exprsed outrage as well; the Atralian snowboarr Belle Brockhoff, for stance, has vowed to “rip on [Put’s] ass” after petg and possibly flash an oblique six-fger salute reference to “Prciple Six, ” an anti-discrimatn clse the Olympic Charter.
SOCHI 2014: GAY RIGHTS PROTTS TARGET RSIA'S GAM
In June 2013, jt months before the openg ceremony of the Sochi Olympics, Rsian Print Vladimir Put signed what beme known as the “gay propaganda law,” argug that “nontradnal sexual relatns” were a danger to children, the fay and society. The law, Put claimed, would uphold “tradnal valu.” * russia winter olympics gay *
Then there’s the solutn proposed by Saturday Night Live: an all-heterosexual Team USA figure-skatg squad:The laws agast homosexualy that have recently ma ternatnal headl aren’t necsarily new, Stern says, but they are “gettg more attentn today bee of the level of progrs that we’ve seen other parts of the world.
In recent months, India’s Supreme Court has restated a ban on gay sex ( one fell swoop doublg, by one timate, the number of gay people the world who n be imprisoned for their sexualy) and Atralia’s High Court has overturned gay-marriage legislatn. ” We know the story Rsia, where Vladimir Put has anoted himself the lear of an ternatnal nservative unteroffensive agast the Wt’s “genrls and fertile” the Bssels-based Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn (ILGA) noted s latt report on “state-sponsored homophobia, ” “ltle has changed the proportn between untri crimalizg same-sex sexual acts between nsentg adults and those which do not, i.
PUT’S PRI? SIX FAMO GAY SONS OF RSIA
The Uned Stat’ legatn to the upg Wter Olympics Rsia won’t clu a member of Print Barack Obama’s fay or an active Cabet secretary, but will clu openly gay athlet - a clear jab at Rsia’s recent anti-gay laws. * russia winter olympics gay *
”The “current divisn of the world—om the pot of view of legislatn—to an LGBTI-iendly field and an LGBTI-uniendly field is the rult of different cultural, social and polil procs rooted the histori of the untri and the history of their relatns wh one another, ” the study ’s how that divid world looked as of May 2013, when ILGA me out wh s report (click on the map to expand):ILGAIn a June report tled “The Global Divi on Homosexualy, ” the Pew Rearch Center arrived at siar nclns, fdg “broad acceptance of homosexualy North Ameri, the European Unn, and much of Lat Ameri, but equally wispread rejectn predomantly Mlim natns and Ai, as well as parts of Asia and Rsia.
U.S. LEGATN TO RSIAN OLYMPICS CLUS GAY ATHLET
Rsian Print Vladimir Put says homosexuals will be wele Sochi for the Olympics but warns them agast spreadg "gay propaganda". * russia winter olympics gay *
S., where public support has grown signifintly, and that “acceptance of homosexualy is particularly wispread untri where relign is ls central people’s liv”—natns that also tend to be the wealthit the world. Exceptns clu Rsia and Cha, where levels of religsy and tolerance for homosexualy are both Rearch CenterHere are the percentag of rponnts the 39 untri Pew surveyed who said society should accept homosexualy.
WTER OLYMPICS: PUT UTNS GAY VISORS TO SOCHI
Print Vladimir Put fends Rsia's law on "gay propaganda" ahead of the Sochi Olympics but sists he is not prejudiced agast homosexuals. * russia winter olympics gay *
Except South Ai, where gay marriage is legal but only 32 percent accept homosexualy, same-sex marriage has, not surprisgly, advanced the most untri where support of homosexualy is Rearch CenterRelign undoubtedly rms opns on LGBT rights—a dynamic rerced by the recent trend of globetrottg Amerin evangelils, stymied at home, craftg and promotg rtrictns on homosexualy foreign pals—but ’s not the only factor at play.
RUPERT EVERETT JOS BOYTT OF RSIAN WTER OLYMPICS OVER ANTI-GAY LAWS
An ternatnal backlash agast Rsia’s anti-gay propaganda law is gag force, cludg lls for a boytt of the 2014 Wter Olympics Rsia. * russia winter olympics gay *
Vladimir Put, ILGA Executive Director Renato Sabbadi argu, se anti-gay legislatn as a means of platg the powerful Rsian Orthodox Church and fendg ‘tradnal valu’ opposn to the Wt, where LGBT rights are generally advancg. Stern pots to the Kampala-based Civil Society Coaln on Human Rights and Constutnal Law’s outspoken opposn to Uganda’s anti-gay bill, while Sabbadi c how Indian gay-rights activists swiftly mobilized to prott the rtoratn of the untry’s ban on homosexual acts.
” In Brazil, for example, same-sex marriage is legal, but more transgenr people are murred than anywhere else the also tak issue wh the notn that Sochi is simply a dramatizatn of today's global gay-rights divi. Vlators face steep f and jail time; foreigners face siar penalti pl what will happen to openly gay athlet and fans, as well as any vol supporters or prottors, when Rsia hosts the Wter Olympics next year Sochi?
"We are aware of the laws and are engaged active discsns wh the Internatnal Olympic Commtee and the US State Department about how we n ensure that every Amerin Sochi, pecially our athlet, are safe and secure, " the letter least one athlete, openly gay New Zealand speed skater Blake Skjellep, has already pledged to wear a rabow p durg the sentiment ns high Rsia, where homosexualy was illegal durg the Soviet Unn and only crimalized 1993.
WTER OLYMPICS: PUT 'IENDLY' WH GAY PEOPLE
Rsian print vows no discrimatn but says gay people mt observe law banng 'homosexual propaganda' * russia winter olympics gay *
Influential gay activist Dan Savage last week lled on supporters to stop buyg Stolichnaya and Rsian Standard, two major Rsian vodka labels, and to urge bars and rtrants to do the same, g the hashtag #DumpStoli.
PROTTS, BOYTT LLS AS ANGER GROWS OVER RSIA ANTI-GAY PROPAGANDA LAWS
In an open letter to the PM and IOC, actor says Vladimir Put 'makg spegoats of gay people, jt as Hler did Jews' * russia winter olympics gay *
The overseas product is ma om Rsian gredients, but bottled rponse, the pany's webse has highlighted s longstandg support for gay rights, cludg a banner image on s Facebook page statg "Stolichnaya Premium Vodka stands strong & proud wh the global LGBT muny agast the attu & actns of the Rsian ernment. "Calls for a full boytt of the gam have been few th far, but some activists, cludg the group Human Rights Campaign, are urgg NBC, which will air the gam the Uned Stat, to clu stori about the anti-gay law s Lazas, the head of NBC Sports, has promised that if the law impacts any part of the Wter Gam, "we will make sure we are acknowledgg and regnizg , " acrdg to the Guardian. Media ptn, Watch: The torch arriv Sochi, where will spend three days ahead of the openg ceremonyGay rights activists across the world have been holdg a day of protts agast the Rsian ernment, jt two days before the Wter Olympics beg the southern rort of protts seek to persua sponsors of the event to speak out over Rsia's ntroversial laws on gay rights protts were anised 19 ci around the Olympic torch has arrived Sochi, havg vised 135 ci the 122 days sce leavg will spend three days and around Sochi before arrivg the Olympic stadium to light the Olympic uldron durg Friday's openg ceremony.
VLADIMIR PUT: GAY PEOPLE AT WTER OLYMPICS MT 'LEAVE CHILDREN ALONE'
Rsia will host the Wter Olympics Sochi six months. But what should be a good news story has stead thst Mosw’s recently passed anti-gay propaganda law to the headl. * russia winter olympics gay *
Activists want Olympic sponsors such as McDonald's, Co-Cola, Samsung and Visa to speak agast Rsia's new laws on ptn, Protters Jesalem chant: "No exc, homophobia is terror"Last year, Rsia banned the promotn of "non-tradnal" sexualy - wily seen as an attack on gay law mak providg rmatn on homosexualy to unr-18s a crime, punishable by a fe. "Image source, PAImage ptn, TV prenter Pl O'Grady and polil mpaigner Peter Tatchell took part the rally central LondonImage source, RtersImage ptn, Protters Madrid held up sheets of rd the lours of the Olympics rgsIn a rporate blog post, AT&T nmned Rsia's stance, sayg stood "agast Rsia's anti-LGBT [lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr] law" telemunitns giant is not an IOC sponsor but do sponsor the US Olympic month, Print Vladimir Put said homosexuals would be wele Sochi for the Olympics but add: "Jt leave the children peace.
STEPHEN FRY LLS FOR BAN ON WTER OLYMPICS RSIA OVER ANTI-GAY LAWS
In June 2013, jt months before the openg ceremony of the Sochi Olympics, Rsian Print Vladimir Put signed what beme known as the “gay propaganda law, ” argug that “nontradnal sexual relatns” were a danger to children, the fay and society. In 2017, the European Court of Human Rights nmned the “gay propaganda” law and orred the ernment to pay rtutn to three platiffs ― a cisn that Rsia is obligated by treaty to rpect ― but Rsian urts ntue to punish people unr the law.
WHY RSIA’S SOCHI OLYMPICS ARE NOW A BATTLEGROUND FOR GAY RIGHTS
The Uned Stat’ legatn to the upg Wter Olympics Rsia won’t clu a member of Print Barack Obama’s fay or an active Cabet secretary, but will clu openly gay athlet - a clear jab at Rsia’s recent anti-gay laws.
Fuelg the rift between the natns are new laws Rsia banng gay “propaganda” – a law crics say is so vague that anyone n be prosecuted for wearg a rabow T-shirt or holdg hands public wh someone of the same sex. Obama told Jay Leno Augt he had “no patience for untri that try to treat gays or lbians or transgenr persons ways that timidate them or are harmful to them, ” and durg his vis to Rsia earlier this year, Obama met wh the lears of Rsian social activist groups.
RSIA, GAY RIGHTS, AND THE SOCHI OLYMPICS
Media ptn, Mr Put rarely giv terviews to foreign journalists, but spoke wh the BBC's Andrew Marr ahead of the Wter OlympicsRsian Print Vladimir Put has said homosexuals will be wele Sochi for the Olympics but warned them agast spreadg "gay propaganda". One of the volunteers at Friday's meetg mented on Sochi's rabow-loured uniforms and asked if they might be breachg the ban on gay Put replied that he had not signed the source, AFPImage ptn, Rsia has traed 25, 000 volunteers to work at the Sochi Gam"We are not banng anythg and we won't arrt anyone, " Mr Put said, televised remarks.
WILL GAYS BE SAFE AT RSIA’S WTER OLYMPICS?
"Gay rights mpaigners around the world have lled for a boytt of the Wter Olympics prott at Rsia's ntroversial new legislatn, which was passed amendment to the child protectn law prcrib f for providg rmatn about homosexualy to people unr 18. Some natnal lears have dited they will not attend the gam, which n om 7 to 23 Print Barack Obama potedly announced he was sendg an Olympic legatn that clus several openly gay sports figur, among them tennis legend Billie Jean Kg.