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• HOPE IS TH AS GAY ACTIVISTS JO BELAS PROTTS FOR CHANGE
• TOP GAY DTATNS: BELAS
• LGBT RIGHTS BELAS - HISTORY OF GAY RIGHTS BELAS
• GAYS BELAS FACE RAIDS AND ARRTS FOR TRYG TO FORM A RIGHTS GROUP
• BELAS PRINT ALEXANR LASHENKO: 'BETTER TO BE A DICTATOR THAN GAY'
• BELAS GAY AND LBIAN RIGHTS NEWS TOPICS
• GAYS BELAS FACE RAIDS AND ARRTS FOR TRYG TO FORM A RIGHTS GROUP

HOPE IS TH AS GAY ACTIVISTS JO BELAS PROTTS FOR CHANGE

(Eds: attentn language para 35)Sept 24 (Thomson Rters Foundatn) - LGBT+ activists Belas hope mass protts for mocratic le Belas will also help liver long-awaed gay rights and rid the former Soviet state of they nce such hop might be far off their eply nservative untry, wh no anti-discrimatn laws to protect LGBT+ some of their fellow protters are homophobic, they say, expectg a long fight before glimpsg equaly. Lashenko ni the electn was THE MARCHThe protts have featured women learship rol, joed by stunts, teachers, cizens young and old, as well as gay people have tradnally lacked visibily Belas - clost to Rsia of all ex-Soviet republics - but have marched the hope of wng equaly law and daily life. “We want a public announcement that LGBT people exist, ” said Dasha Churko, who works for women’s rights centre ‘Her Rights Msk’ rights Belas are among the worst Europe, says the advocy group ILGA Europe, wh homophobia only about 30 LGBT+ people marched openly, Bredova said many more monstrated whout rabow flags or helped behd the scen, aidg the taed and monorg urts.

TOP GAY DTATNS: BELAS

”After his abpt swearg on Wednday, was not clear whether Lashenko would stay; the EU said he lacked EXISTSame-sex relatns have been legal Belas sce 1994 but there are no anti-discrimatn laws that protect LGBT+ people and some state officials openly exprs homophobic 2012, Lashenko famoly said was “better to be a dictator than gay” after a German mister lled him “Europe’s last dictator”.

Earlier this year, the Catholic church and some members of the Orthodox church supported a petn llg on the print to ban the “promotn of homosexualy” among print’s prs service did not rpond to a requt for ment.

But homophobic Belas, except among the most privileged part of the LGBTQ muny, “queer” don’t mean anythg. The Department of Jtice rejected the applitn and the Supreme Court nfirmed the cisn, lg that there was no need to create such an anizatn as there’s no homophobia and that the nstutn protects all equally.

LGBT RIGHTS BELAS - HISTORY OF GAY RIGHTS BELAS

The next year, the archect Mikhail Pischevsky, a gay man, was attacked Msk.

But a judge led that the crime had no homophobic motive, even though happened jt outsi the entrance to a gay nightclub. Even a popular Belasian rock band replaced the “OMOH” letters that are on the uniforms of special forc wh “HOMO” to sult them. A popular Belasian rock band replaced the “OMOH” letters that are on the uniforms of special forc wh “HOMO” to sult them | Siarhei Lkiec/AFP via Getty Imag.

Homophobia and transphobia rema wispread Belas.

GAYS BELAS FACE RAIDS AND ARRTS FOR TRYG TO FORM A RIGHTS GROUP

Homosexualy was crimalised Belas 1994, but anti-gay sentiment among many Belasians remas strong. The high level of homophobia the untry n be summarised by the famo words of print Lashenka 2012: ”It is better to be a dictator than gay.

and monstratn of homosexualy to mors. In 2013, Rsia troduced a ntroversial “gay.

Public OpnPublic opn polls particular regns of Belas have found that homophobic beliefs persist. Belas SurveysOrthodox Christian Support for Church's Posn of Refg to Perform Same-Sex MarriageHistoryHomosexual activy Belas?

BELAS PRINT ALEXANR LASHENKO: 'BETTER TO BE A DICTATOR THAN GAY'

Homosexual activy Belas is legal. Current statSce Mar 1, 1994Legal Only form of homosexualy that is illegal is non-nsensual homosexual terurseSame-sex marriage Belas?

Illegal Adoptn of children by same-sex upl are not spelled out the legislatn, however, when nsirg an applitn for adoptn, homosexualy is nsired a ground for refal.

BELAS GAY AND LBIAN RIGHTS NEWS TOPICS

Servg openly ary Belas is don't ask, don't 't Ask, Don't Tell Open homosexuals n not serve the armed forc. When jected to the army, homosexuals may be victims of vlence om lleagu. The Constutn and laws do not rtrict the service of homosexuals the donatns by MSMs Belas?

Blood donatns by MSMs Belas is No particular limatn for homosexuals. LONDON (Thomson Rters Foundatn) - A group of up to 17 untri led by Belas has blocked a plan to clu the rights of gay, lbian and transgenr muni a new urban strategy drawn up by the Uned Natns, acrdg to sourc close to, backed by the European Unn, the Uned Stat and Mexi, had phed for cludg the regnn of LGBT people and an acknowledgment of homophobia a key policy paper to be falised at a major UN nference Ecuador next UN’s ‘New Urban Agenda’ is a non-bdg agreement to addrs the challeng of rapidly growg ci globally and will be adopted at Habat III Quo, settg out guil for staable urban velopment over the next 20 regnn of LGBT muni and an acknowledgment of homophobia would be seen as a signifint step by the Uned Natns wh same sex relatnships illegal 76 untri around the world and punishable by ath sourc said a behd-the-scen mpaign by Belas, supported by var natns cludg Rsia, Egypt, Qatar, Indonia, Pakistan and the Uned Arab Emirat, had rulted the document only referrg to ci beg “iendly for fai” Bueckert, a spokman for the Canadian ernment, said Canada “fought hard” to have gay rights and homophobia officially regnized and sisted throughout negotiatns that the “most vulnerable and disadvantaged” be kept md.

A “Call for Actn” sectn the paper regniz the special vulnerabili and discrimatn of specific groups ci wh the list cludg women and girls, the disabled, digeno people, the homels, slum dwellers, refuge and youth - but mak no mentn of LGBT SENTIMENTNegotiatns to thrash out the wordg of the New Urban Agenda have been held over many months all over the fal meetgs prr to next week’s nference that will clu up to 30, 000 legat were held New York Augt and Surabaya, Indonia, July where there has been growg anti-gay sentiment this Indonian ernment stated Augt that there is “no room” for an LGBT movement the southeast Asian natn. “We are nvced the human rights women and men, children and olr persons, persons wh disabili uld be bt promoted and protected wh the fay environment, ” Woodsworth, chair of Women Transformg Ci Internatnal Society and a former Vanuver cy uncilor, drove the ial Canadian ph to enshre gay rights the told the Thomson Rters Foundatn that she was shocked when she first raised the ia to be told that she should fet bee “Rsia will shoot out of the water” but was then told that Rsia did ed support the Belas motn.

GAYS BELAS FACE RAIDS AND ARRTS FOR TRYG TO FORM A RIGHTS GROUP

Vyachasl Bortnik, 39, a rights activist om the cy of Homel, and Shawn Gaylord, 44, a U. Lawyer and adviser for a gay-rights anizatn, married a ceremony Washgton, D.

Supreme Court lg on lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) rights paved the way for Bortnik to rema the Uned Stat. Bortnik and Gaylord ma sure they did meet aga, although not whout nsirable difficulty.

They were nsirg movg to Canada, where gay marriage is legal. The cisn meant that legally married gay upl beme entled to claim the same feral benefs as are generally available to oppose-sex married upl the Uned Stat. C., where Gaylord liv.

"We were ecstatic, of urse, " Gaylord says. Bortnik says he knows of several s of Belasians marryg same-sex partners om EU untri where gay marriage is legal, such as Swen. "No matter if 's a remote area or the pal or a regnal center -- opn polls unfortunately show that homophobia is prevalent Belas.