Rsia's World Cup volunteers have warned they will hunt down gay England fans and report them to police if they see them kissg public
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13 UNTRI WHERE BEG GAY IS LEGALLY PUNISHABLE BY ATH
Rsia’s lg party’s most recent mpaign to ban “polyamory and bisexualy propaganda” is part of an ongog attempt to enact homophobic polici and prerve what the Kreml nsirs “tradnal valu. ” Along wh the recent natnal referendum that clud a nstutnal ban on same-sex marriage, this mpaign, creasgly nservative and exprsly anti-LGBT+ rhetoric, reprents state-sponsored “policized homophobia” that unrme and repackage the prcipl of mocracy and human rights, as well as how those ncepts are terpreted by policymakers, Rsia and beyond.
The 2013 “gay propaganda” law marked a signifint shift g legislatn to foster a sense of natnal inty at the expense of LGBT+ people’s fundamental rights.
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In realy, policized homophobia and the objectifitn of tradn not only aims to draw symbolic boundari between “Rsian culture” and the Wt, but also nstcts an enemy—LGBT+ people. By enactg legislatn aimed at prervg "tradnal valu", cludg homophobic laws, the Rsian ernment has reposned self as a signifint iologil force the regn and around the world. For stance, after Rsia’s adoptn of the gay-propaganda law 2013, many post-Soviet untri’ parliaments nsired different eratns of a bill agast “homosexual propaganda.
Rsia’s anti-LGBT+ polici are not maniftatns of herent Rsian homophobia, but rather the velopment of a polil strategy by Rsian policymakers. The implementatn of the “gay propaganda” law has rulted an crease anti- LGBT+ vlence and rtrictns on LGBT+ projects and iativ—om a ban on Pri events to the abily of LGBT+ anizatns to register the untry. The bt path forward lls for ternatnal actors to adhere to human-rights prcipl, mata polil prsure on the Rsian ernment, and support lol actors who work to rce homophobic rhetoric the public doma and crease the reprentatn of LGBT+ people.