Legislatn beg phed by the Kreml and the Rsian Orthodox Church would clu a ban on holdg public events (such as the one pictured) that promote gay rights.
Contents:
- RUSSIA: ‘GAY PROPAGANDA’ LAW REMAS PLACE, BUT PLATS AGAST NTUE
- RSIA: EXPAND 'GAY PROPAGANDA' BAN PROGRS TOWARD LAW
- RSIA ANTI-GAY LAW TO OUTLAW 'HOMOSEXUAL PROPAGANDA' AND BAN PUBLIC EVENTS THAT PROMOTE GAY RIGHTS
- RSIA PASS LAW BANNG GAY 'PROPAGANDA'
- WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT RSIA’S SO-CALLED ‘GAY PROPAGANDA’ BILL
RUSSIA: ‘GAY PROPAGANDA’ LAW REMAS PLACE, BUT PLATS AGAST NTUE
* russia bans gay propaganda *
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. 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.
RSIA: EXPAND 'GAY PROPAGANDA' BAN PROGRS TOWARD LAW
It is the latt attack on LGBT rights the untry, after another anti-gay law was extend last year. * russia bans gay propaganda *
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”.
RSIA ANTI-GAY LAW TO OUTLAW 'HOMOSEXUAL PROPAGANDA' AND BAN PUBLIC EVENTS THAT PROMOTE GAY RIGHTS
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.
RSIA PASS LAW BANNG GAY 'PROPAGANDA'
”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”.
WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT RSIA’S SO-CALLED ‘GAY PROPAGANDA’ BILL
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.