No Support: Rsia’s “Gay Propaganda” Law Imperils LGBT Youth | HRW

Contents:

• RSIA: EXPAND 'GAY PROPAGANDA' BAN PROGRS TOWARD LAW
• THIS IS GAY PROPAGANDA: LGBT RIGHTS & THE WAR UKRAE
• THIS IS GAY PROPAGANDA: LGBT RIGHTS AND THE WAR UKRAE
• THIS IS GAY PROPAGANDA: LGBT RIGHTS & THE WAR UKRAE
• EXGAY CALLG
• WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT RSIA’S SO-CALLED ‘GAY PROPAGANDA’ BILL
• ANTI-LGBTQ OFFICIAL LLS FOR THORI TO VTIGATE NETFLIX FOR PROMOTG “GAY PROPAGANDA”

RSIA: EXPAND 'GAY PROPAGANDA' BAN PROGRS TOWARD LAW

The proposals prohib sharg posive and even ntral rmatn about lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people, and publicly displayg non-heterosexual orientatns, wh hefty f for nonpliance. The origal “gay propaganda” ban, troduced 2013, purported to protect children om “propaganda, ” broadly fed to mean any posive or ntral pictn or discsn of non-heterosexual relatns. The draft legislatn classifi displays of non-heterosexual relatns or orientatn as “rmatn harmful to children’s health and velopment” and provis that webs and other onle sourc hostg rmatn about lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people n be blocked.

THIS IS GAY PROPAGANDA: LGBT RIGHTS & THE WAR UKRAE

“The 2013 ‘gay propaganda’ law was an unabashed example of polil homophobia, and the new draft legislatn amplifi that broar and harsher ways, ” said Tanya Loksha, associate Europe and Central Asia director at Human Rights Watch. From acunts of exile and torture, to stori of ristance, this film shows a si of the nflict Ukrae the world has not yet productn, box office & pany PhotosMore like thisBe the first to reviewContribute to this pageSuggt an ed or add missg ntentBy what name was This Is Gay Propaganda: LGBT Rights & the War Ukrae (2015) officially released Canada English?

THIS IS GAY PROPAGANDA: LGBT RIGHTS AND THE WAR UKRAE

From acunts of exile and torture, to stori of ristance, this film shows a si of the nflict Ukrae the world has not yet seen through terviews wh LGBTQ Ukraians who have suffered displacement, legal harassment, and worse, as Rsia imposed s laws agast “gay propaganda” on a regn still illegally occupied while the world acquiced to the vasn and s impact on queer people. Sce showg excerpts om This is Gay Propaganda: LGBT Rights and the War Ukrae at a panel Montréal 2015, Bociurkiw’s fearls (and fearsome) documentary enjoyed a world premiere Poland, a Canadian premiere at the Vanuver Queer Film Ftival (2015) and has jt been screened to muni across Ukrae, where at least once was met wh right-wg hooligan threats.

We observe how gay activists the Amerin Psychologil Associatn who are uned Divisn 44 (the “LGBT” sectn) have ed gnive dissonance to lu dienc to ncludg that therapy for unwanted same-sex attractns is highly unsirable, harmful even. The rear n eher alter gnn #1 to make sound as follows: ‘no therapy is appropriate for homosexualy bee is normal’ or he n alter gnn #2 to make sound: ‘there are distct mental or velopmental disorrs to be found spe of what this Task Force sets out to assert and wre. He liberately let them thk for example “crash occurs at 45 km/hour”, the Task Force liberately lets you thk “homosexualy has been proven to be merely a normal variant, therefore therapy nnot possibly be appropriate”.

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THIS IS GAY PROPAGANDA: LGBT RIGHTS & THE WAR UKRAE

The mechanism is actively utilized by the gay members of Divisn 44 of the Amerin Psychologil Associatn who are everywhere to be found advisory mte of other anizatns.

In 2019, they even generoly advised lay and gay activists how to fool Amazon to letg all books by Nilosi and others, as long as the letn self is not done unr their profsnal name. In an op-ed (opn article) the New York Tim January 2018, he prented gnive dissonance the tle of his say: “I was tortured Gay Conversn Therapy, and ’s still legal 41 stat”. The aim of radil gay-lib is to prevent younger generatns om fdg opposg thoughts and facts, thereby makg sure that the unsubstantiated world-view of APA Divisn 44 will reign supreme.

EXGAY CALLG

Petersburg and Mosw have been marked by state vlence and arrts, while an crease the number of attacks on LGBTQ people throughout Rsia—both by dividuals and by anized homophobic groups—creased after the 2013 law, acrdg to a 2014 report published by Human Rights Watch. In 2017, the European Court of Human Rights led that Rsia’s “gay propaganda law” was discrimatory, promoted homophobia, and vlated the European Conventn on Human Rights and that “served no legimate public tert. Lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) youth Rsia face formidable barriers to enjoyg their fundamental rights to digny, health, tn, rmatn, and associatn.

In Rsia, antipathy towards homosexualy and genr variance is not new—LGBT people there have long faced threats, bullyg, abe si their fai, and discrimatn—but the 2013 “gay propaganda” law has creased that social hostily.

WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT RSIA’S SO-CALLED ‘GAY PROPAGANDA’ BILL

And while Rsian ernment officials and parliament members claim that the goal of the “gay propaganda” law is to protect children om potentially harmful subject matter, the law fact directly harms children by nyg them accs to sential rmatn and creasg stigma agast LGBT youth and their fai.

While some LGBT youth told that teachers had supported and protected them, many others said their teachers characterize LGBT people as a symptom of perversn imported om Wtern Europe or North Ameri, mirrorg the polil homophobia that motivated the passage of the “gay propaganda” law the first place. Some explaed that they felt forced to speak about sexual orientatn and genr inty only phemisms, or to say explicly at the outset of unselg ssns that they nnot and will not dissemate “gay propaganda” attempts to dispel advance any notn that they are vlatg the law. On June 10, 2013, Yelena Mizula, the thor of the law at the State Duma, the lower chamber of Rsia’s parliament, told reporters that the Deti-404 webse did not nstute “gay propaganda” unr the law.

Instct relevant law enforcement agenci, such as the office of the prosecutor general, the Mistry of Interr, and the Invtigative Commtee, to gather data about homophobic and transphobic crim, and make such data publicly available. In le wh the June 2013 EU guil on promotg and protectg the enjoyment of all human rights by lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and tersex (LGBTI) persons, support iativ to provi assistance and redrs for victims of such vlence, civil society and ernmental monorg of s volvg vlence, and trag of law enforcement personnel.

ANTI-LGBTQ OFFICIAL LLS FOR THORI TO VTIGATE NETFLIX FOR PROMOTG “GAY PROPAGANDA”

Same-sex relatns between men were crimalized 1993, two years after the breakup of the Soviet Unn, and 1999 the Rsian Mistry of Health regnized the standards of the Internatnal Classifitn of Diseas (ICD), which had been revised 1990 to remove a diagnosis for homosexualy. [11] A 2018 survey by a ernment-n pollg agency found that 63 percent of rponnts believe there is a subversive force workg Rsia to stroy “Rsian valu” through the spreadg of “gay propaganda.