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• RSIA BANS IMAGE 'HTG' THAT PUT IS GAY
• 'THERE WILL BE DAD AND MUM': PUT L OUT RSIA LEGALIZG GAY MARRIAGE

RSIA BANS IMAGE 'HTG' THAT PUT IS GAY

The European Court of Human Rights led 2017 that the 2013 law is discrimatory, promot homophobia and vlat the European Conventn on Human Rights. 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. 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. Though Rsia crimalized homosexualy 1993, amendments to the Rsian Constutn 2020 banned LGBTQ+ unns the untry — an actn that was clared a human rights vlatn by the European Court of Human Rights. Put has even prevly said that Rsia mt "cleanse" self of homosexualy.

'THERE WILL BE DAD AND MUM': PUT L OUT RSIA LEGALIZG GAY MARRIAGE

Rsia has also been cricized recent years for s treatment of LGBTQ+ people Chechnya, whose mayor nounced homosexualy 2017, statg "We don't have those kds of people here. Muny further unrground, s opponents new law also ntas a ban on propaganda for pedophilia, and a leadg pennt news se, Mza, said the batn “looks like an attempt to put homosexualy and pedophilia the same row. Multiple discrimatory laws have been passed sce, startg wh 2013 legislatn rtrictg LGBTQ+ rights known as the "gay propaganda" law, which banned any public endorsement of "nontradnal sexual relatns" among the vasn of Ukrae last year, Rsian thori ratcheted up their rhetoric, methodilly weedg out anythg they emed a "gradg Wtern fluence, " cludg rights groups that advoted anythg om helpg domtic abe victims to prervg rerds of Soviet 2022, the origal law targetg "gay propaganda" was expand to ver adults, outlawg any posive or even ntral reprentatn of LGBTQ+ people the public sphere, movi, lerature or media, forcg the already rare number of LGBTQ+-iendly spac to executive director of the Inpennt Psychiatric Associatn of Rsia, Lyubov Vogradova, lled the law "misanthropic" ments to the Rsian newspaper Kommersant late June.

Ten years ago, a bill was passed banng so-lled "gay propaganda" relatn to children. Human rights groups say that was followed by a rise vlent homophobic attacks 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. ”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.