Rsia Bans Image 'Htg' That Put Is Gay

Contents:

• THE GAY WORLD WAR? INSI PUT’S WARPED REALY
• RSIA BANS IMAGE 'HTG' THAT PUT IS GAY
• RSIAN PRINT VLADIMIR PUT IS 'LATENTLY GAY,' ALLEG CONTROVERSIAL NEW BGRAPHY
• RSIA'S VLADIMIR PUT 'IS GAY' CLAIMS NTROVERSIAL NEW BGRAPHY
• WHY RSIA TURNED AGAST THE GAYS
• ‘I’M AAID FOR MY FUTURE’: PROPOSED LAWS THREATEN GAY LIFE RSIA

THE GAY WORLD WAR? INSI PUT’S WARPED REALY

Sce 2013, when Rsia passed a “gay propaganda” ban argug that promotn of LGBT rights was harmful to children, the Kreml has ed statements about sexualy to signal that ’s aligned wh nservativ promotg a particular worldview of Rsia as distct om and better than the has been mixg the signals to balance petg terts sce he rose to powerWe recently analyzed two s of Put’s major annual speech. The first was a dismissal of “the rights of sexual mori” and nflatn of homosexualy wh “pedophilia. ”Over the last two s, Rsian Print Vladimir Put has waged an all-out asslt on the LGBTQ muny, amg as part of a larger mpaign to protect Rsia’s “tradnal culture” om what he scrib as an onslght of morn valu promoted by the has lled genr fluidy “a crime agast humany, ” and equated homosexualy wh pedophilia.

A “gay propaganda” law passed Rsia 2013 ma illegal to promote gay rights and has been ed to jail activists and shut down LGBTQ support groups. And durg a seri of anti-gay purg Rsia’s Mlim-majory Chechen Republic, which officials kidnapped, tortured and some s killed men spected of havg sex wh other men, the Kreml turned a bld the same time, life for LGBTQ people Ukrae has slowly been, wh tens of thoands of Rsian troops encirclg major Ukraian ci, gay, lbian and transgenr people are worried about what a Rsian takeover might mean for them. As Put has ma gay people the boogeymen for all of Rsia’s ills, Reid said, he has also fueled “a monstrable crease discrimatn and vlence.

Yura Dvizhon, a director who helps n Ukrae’s annual gay pri celebratn. (Courty Yura Dvizhon) “If we were unr Rsian le, we’d have to shut our mouths, we wouldn’t be able to drs how we want, we would never have gay pri, ” said Yura Dvizhon, 29, a well-known Ukraian director.

RSIA BANS IMAGE 'HTG' THAT PUT IS GAY

(Daniel Leal / AFP via Getty Imag) Ukrae was never a utopia for gays and transgenr people, Dvizhon marriage is illegal Ukrae, LGBTQ people are not protected by anti-discrimatn laws, and the fluential Christian Orthodox Church views homosexualy as a s. Last year’s annual gay pri para Kyiv drew 7, 000 people — a victory, even if police were lled to fend off anti-gay protters. Opn polls show Ukraians have bee more acceptg of gay rights over the last .

In 2019, Print Volodymyr Zelensky snapped back at a homophobic heckler who had terpted his speech. ”While there are still ncrete laws — an anti-discrimatn bill foremost among them — that the natn’s LGBTQ muny is wag for, everybody knows that the suatn for gay people Rsia is “much, much, much worse, ” said Natsya Kosach, a lbian DJ Kyiv.

RSIAN PRINT VLADIMIR PUT IS 'LATENTLY GAY,' ALLEG CONTROVERSIAL NEW BGRAPHY

“I know gay guys who are the Terrorial Defense [Ukrae’s ary rerve force] and nobody is sayg anythg to them. “This is a homophobic, transphobic place, ” she said.

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

The regn has bee more homophobic sce then, she said.

She believ anti-gay and trans discrimatn has s roots the Orthodox Church but also the Soviet Unn, which broke up Soviet society, nformy was prized.

Ten years ago, a bill was passed banng so-lled "gay propaganda" relatn to children.

WHY RSIA TURNED AGAST THE GAYS

Human rights groups say that was followed by a rise vlent homophobic attacks Rsia.

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

But the fear generated by the legislatn is already leadg to censorship: onle cemas have leted LGBT-themed films and TV seri and eded out gay scen.

In one episo of the highly-acclaimed HBO seri The Whe Lot, a Rsian streamg service changed the word "gay" to "man", eded a towel onto one male character's bare backsi and leted a gay sex scene, jt days after the law was ptn, The book Shattered, about the romance between two men, has been heavily redacted RsiaBooks, too, are beg censored. The text has been redacted by the publisher, wh whole sectns replaced wh black of the -thors of the law, an openly homophobic natnalist lled Valy Milonov, agre to speak to me via violk. New amendments banned anythg that uld be nsted as a suggtn that homosexual relatnships are normal.

Whу God’s name are Rsian lawmakers so agated about gay marriag durg a bloody war? How is “gay propaganda” related to war wh Ukrae? This is where the gay propaganda kicks : It’s all a part of a dastardly plan, he says, by Wtern el to stop the natural propagatn of humany.