LGBT Ukraians terrified of Rsia's war on gay and transgenr people - Los Angel Tim

Contents:

• PUT EXPANDS ‘GAY PROPAGANDA’ BAN, THREATENG LGBTQ CRACKDOWN
• ‘I’M AAID FOR MY FUTURE’: PROPOSED LAWS THREATEN GAY LIFE RSIA
• VLADIMIR PUT: 'I KNOW SOME PEOPLE WHO ARE GAY, WE'RE ON IENDLY TERMS'
• PUT SHAR THOUGHTS ON SHOWERG WH GAY MEN AND MENSTAL CYCL
• RSIA'S VLADIMIR PUT 'IS GAY' CLAIMS NTROVERSIAL NEW BGRAPHY
• I AM GAY GAY

PUT EXPANDS ‘GAY PROPAGANDA’ BAN, THREATENG LGBTQ CRACKDOWN

The European Court of Human Rights led 2017 that the 2013 law is discrimatory, promot homophobia and vlat the European Conventn on Human Rights.

‘I’M AAID FOR MY FUTURE’: PROPOSED LAWS THREATEN GAY LIFE RSIA

The urt found that the law “served no legimate public tert, ” rejectg suggtns that public bate on LGBT issu uld fluence children to bee homosexual, or that threatened public morals.

Homosexualy was crimalized Rsia 1993, but homophobia and discrimatn is still rife.

Speakg before Put signed the bill to the law on Monday, Tanya Loksha, associate Europe and Central Asia director at Human Rights Watch said: “The 2013 ‘gay propaganda’ law was an unabashed example of polil homophobia, and the new draft legislatn amplifi that broar and harsher ways. Move outlaws portrayal of gay relatns books, films, mediaMeasure expands law to ver adults as well as childrenPeople wave rabow flags durg a rally Sat Petersburg 2017.

VLADIMIR PUT: 'I KNOW SOME PEOPLE WHO ARE GAY, WE'RE ON IENDLY TERMS'

Photographer: Olga Maltseva/AFP/Getty ImagRsian Print Vladimir Put signed to law on Monday a sweepg ban on the posive portrayal of gay relatnships books, films, the media and the Inter, regardls of ban on “propaganda of non-tradnal sexual relatns” expands Rsia’s 2013 law that prohibed the promotn of homosexualy to children. The new legislatn now mak illegal to prent posive imag to adults of gay relatnships media and NextPut Expands ‘Gay Propaganda’ Ban, Threateng LGBTQ Crackdown.

"Central Europe's biggt Pri march kept a foc on Ukrae's fight agast Rsia, as well as s LGBTQ+ muny's fight for equal LGBTQ Ukraians fear human rights ab if Rsia stays: "We will fight"Victor Pylypenko, who is gay and serv as a medic on the ontle Dosk, is the founr of Ukrae's "Unn of the LGBT+ Milary, " which unts thoands of members. He says he's never felt discrimatn, and that 's important to be out as a gay man. Nearly one two Ukraians reports feelg negatively about the gay muny.

PUT SHAR THOUGHTS ON SHOWERG WH GAY MEN AND MENSTAL CYCL

Like, you n't protect human rights Ukrae whout a gun now, " Borys Milewski told CBS News om Kyiv's bohemian, gay-iendly Podil district. Milewski has fought agast Rsia sce the war started — not for land, money, or even gay rights, he said.

RSIA'S VLADIMIR PUT 'IS GAY' CLAIMS NTROVERSIAL NEW BGRAPHY

"It will be a plete disaster… Put's iology is homophobia, so disrpect towards human rights, " he said. They were tryg to ply wh a 2013 Rsian law that bans exposg mors to anythg that uld be nsired “gay propaganda. ”The anizers had good reason to be wary: Life has been challengg for gay Rsians sce the law passed, as the ernment has treated gay life as a Wtern import that is harmful to tradnal Rsian valu and Rsia’s Parliament is set to pass a legislative package that would ban all “gay propaganda, ” signalg an even more difficult perd ahead for a stigmatized segment of laws would prohib reprentatn of L.

I AM GAY GAY

Exprsn wh s ratnale for the war Ukrae, sistg that Rsia is fightg not jt Ukrae but all of NATO, a Wtern alliance that reprents a threat to the Put drove home that argument a speech last week, sayg that the Wt n have “dozens of genrs and gay pri paras, ” but that should not try to spread the “trends” elsewhere. Aleksandr Khste, a puty om the lg Uned Rsia party and the lead thor of the new anti-gay bills, was even more blunt.