Rsia might w the Eurovisn Song Contt this year, for the first time sce the untry troduced s anti-gay law.
Contents:
- EUROVISN'S SERGEY LAZAREV: GAY LIFE EXISTS RSIA
- RSIA IS PNG S EUROVISN HOP ON A GAY-IENDLY SGER WHO SPURNS S CRIMEAN POLICY
- RSIA ACTUALLY MIGHT W EUROVISN THIS YEAR… BUT WHAT DO MEAN FOR GAY FANS?
EUROVISN'S SERGEY LAZAREV: GAY LIFE EXISTS RSIA
Image source, Getty ImagDpe his untry's ntroversial laws, Rsia's Eurovisn entrant says the LGBT muny will be weled to his untry if he ws the rights mpaigners have often cricised 2013 legislatn which means heavy f are hand out for people providg rmatn about homosexualy to unr Lazarev is the favoure to w, which means Rsia would host next year if that happens.
"Gay life exists Rsia, " he tells source, Getty Imag"There is more talk and mours about problems than exist. "The law also allows Rsian thori to block accs to webs emed to promote Eurovisn Song Contt has a large LGBT followg around the 2014, a Rsian polician lled the Eurovisn Song Contt "a Europe-wi gay para" source, Getty ImagRecently, the Israeli entrant to Eurovisn, who's openly gay, cricised his treatment Rsia after an cint at Mosw Star says he had his passport ripped up ont of him when he entered the untry to perform.
"I had two performanc Mosw's gay clubs and the crowds were huge. A sarstic Ksenia Sobchak and even the whole untry announced that Sergei Lazarev - gay.
RSIA IS PNG S EUROVISN HOP ON A GAY-IENDLY SGER WHO SPURNS S CRIMEAN POLICY
The well-known mic cric Sergei Sosedov his terview wh "EG" enuraged reprentetiv of a Rsian show bs who keep on nyg they're gay to make a g-out. Among the homosexuals known to him he named sgers of different genr and generatns - Sergey Lazarev, Valery Leontiev, Philip Kirkorov and Nikolai Baskov. "Of urse, nobody have been a wns", - thks Sergei Sosedov, an openly gay himself, - but, as they say, the thgs ually stand out, don't they?...
"The gay sgers are embarrassed to e out of the closet, " thks Sosedov, "they vent all sorts of stori about their romanc wh women.
RSIA ACTUALLY MIGHT W EUROVISN THIS YEAR… BUT WHAT DO MEAN FOR GAY FANS?
At the same time he had to face both homophobic remarks ma by the sger Alexanr Medvev (Shura), and the dislike exprsed, for example, by Juli Gman, and numero ambiguo jok addrsed to him.
"More than half of the show bs reprentativ are gay, but 80% of the dience are women, so Rsian stars are forced to please viewers, to vent some children om tt tub, weddgs, meetgs and divorc, to play a ladi 'men, lovers, womanizers". Such a suatn, says Sosedov, is due to the high level of homophobia society.
We have a homophobic untry, non-tradnal orientatn is not weled, " - said Sosedov and ced as an example "aggrsive programs" on the "Rsia" TV channel. "This month, acrdg to Agence France-Prse, Lazarev told a gay tert magaze Swen that he was happy for fans to wave rabow flags at his performanc, and that he rpects his gay fans and they rpect him.