Explaer: Rsia pass expand ‘gay propaganda law’ | openDemocracy

Contents:

• WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT RSIA’S SO-CALLED ‘GAY PROPAGANDA’ BILL
• RSIA: EXPAND 'GAY PROPAGANDA' BAN PROGRS TOWARD LAW
• EXPLAER: WHAT DO NEW ‘GAY PROPAGANDA’ LAW MEAN FOR LGBTIQ+ RSIANS?
• RSIAN ‘GAY PROPAGANDA LAW’ DISCRIMATORY, EUROPEAN URT L
• RSIAN LAWMAKERS MOVE TO TOUGHEN ‘GAY PROPAGANDA’ LAW, BANNG ALL ADULTS OM ‘PROMOTG’ SAME-SEX RELATNSHIPS
• RSIA PASS LAW BANNG GAY 'PROPAGANDA'
• RSIA PROPOS EXTENDG ‘GAY PROPAGANDA’ LAW TO ALL ADULTS
• RSIAN LAWMAKERS PROPOSE EXTENDG 'GAY PROPAGANDA' LAW TO ALL ADULTS
• RSIA’S ‘GAY PROPAGANDA’ LAWS ARE ILLEGAL, EUROPEAN COURT RUL

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

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.

RSIA: EXPAND 'GAY PROPAGANDA' BAN PROGRS TOWARD LAW

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. Rsia’s parliament has passed the third and fal readg of a law banng “LGBT propaganda” among all adults, as Mosw ramps up s nservative ph at home amid the war Ukrae that passed the ne-month mark on bill crimalis any act regard as an attempt to promote what Rsia lls “non-tradnal sexual relatns” – film, onle, advertisg or public – and expands on a notor 2013 law that banned “propaganda of nontradnal sexual relatns” among mors and was ed to ta gay rights the new law, dividuals n be fed up to 400, 000 roubl (£5, 400) and anisatns 5m roubl (£68, 500) for “propagandisg nontradnal sexual relatns”, while foreigners uld face up to 15 days’ arrt and expulsn om rights groups and LGBTQ+ activists say the extensn of the law means any act or public mentn of same-sex relatnships is functnally beg Rsian print, Vladimir Put, is expected to sign the bill the g the start of the war Ukrae, the Kreml has lnched a h effort to promote “tradnal valu”, wh the Rsian lear makg anti-gay rhetoric one of the rnerston of his polil a recent speech, Put acced the wt of “movg towards open satanism”, cg the promotn of gay and transgenr rights Europe as an example.

”Kochetkov said the bill was also an attempt by the Kreml to look for ternal enemi and distract attentn om battlefield past newsletter promotnafter newsletter promotnHuman rights crics fear the law will be ed to close down pennt film and book ftivals, makg the topic of gay sexual orientatn sentially taboo Rsia.

EXPLAER: WHAT DO NEW ‘GAY PROPAGANDA’ LAW MEAN FOR LGBTIQ+ RSIANS?

”Over the past few years, Rsia has banned a number of proment LGBTQ+ rights groups, cludg the Sphere Foundatn, an anisatn that shed light on vlent anti-gay purg Chechnya. Kochetkov’s LGBT Network, wh a number of other human rights groups, has also received the “foreign agent” label, a Soviet-era tag signed to target groups the thori say receive “foreign fundg” and engage “polil activy” while the Rsian ernment has expand s attacks on LGBTQ+ rights, recent pollg has dited parts of Rsian society are beg more tolerant towards the gay muny, wh a 2019 poll showg that 68% of younger Rsians view the LGBTQ+ muny as “normal” July, Daria Kasatka, Rsia’s hight-ranked female tennis player, me out as gay, a move appld by fellow athlet and parts of the Rsian public. Potg to the reactns, Kochetkov said the new law would not drastilly change the way Rsians viewed lbians, gay men, bisexuals and transgenr people.

RSIAN ‘GAY PROPAGANDA LAW’ DISCRIMATORY, EUROPEAN URT L

” Some lawmakers have also shown support for an pennt bill that would make any so-lled “gay propaganda” a crimal offense, acrdg to the Associated Prs.

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. The European Court of Human Rights led 2017 that Rsia’s so-lled “gay propaganda law” is discrimatory, promot homophobia and vlat the European Conventn on Human Rights.

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.

RSIAN LAWMAKERS MOVE TO TOUGHEN ‘GAY PROPAGANDA’ LAW, BANNG ALL ADULTS OM ‘PROMOTG’ SAME-SEX RELATNSHIPS

“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. Dec 5 (Rters) - Rsian Print Vladimir Put on Monday signed a law expandg Rsia's rtrictns on the promotn of what lls "LGBT propaganda", effectively outlawg any public exprsn of LGBT behavur or liftyle the new law, which wins Rsia's terpretatn of what qualifi as "LGBT propaganda", any actn or the spreadg of any rmatn that is nsired an attempt to promote homosexualy public, onle, or films, books or advertisg, uld cur a heavy law expands Rsia's prev law agast LGBT propaganda that had banned the "monstratn" of LGBT behavur to as the Kreml exerts creased prsure on mory groups and opponents of Put at home, quashg pennt media groups and further stiflg ee speech as Mosw ramps up a -long mpaign to promote what says are "tradnal" valu. Authori have already ed the existg law to stop gay pri march and ta gay rights groups say the new law is tend to drive so-lled "non-tradnal" LGBT liftyl practised by lbians, gay men, bisexuals and transgenr people out of public life altogether.

The ntroversial law was met wh cricism and ridicule Wtern untri, cludg a lg the European Court of Human Rights 2017 that stated Rsia’s “gay propaganda law” is discrimatory, promot homophobia and vlat the European Conventn on Human Rights. In December 2022, Rsia expand s existg “gay propaganda” law to exert ntrol over public discsns and narrativ surroundg non-heterosexual relatnships and inti. Rsia’s so-lled ‘gay propaganda’ law has banned the promotn of “non-tradnal sexual valu” to unr-18s sce, the Rsian parliament has passed an expand versn of the law that outlaws all mentns of LGBTIQ-related topics the media – cludg film, televisn, advertisg, onle and ’s what you need to history of Rsia’s ‘gay propaganda’ lawOn 29 June 2013, Rsian print Vladimir Put signed a new law lled “On the propaganda of non-tradnal sexual relatns among mors”.

RSIA PASS LAW BANNG GAY 'PROPAGANDA'

The new law banned the promotn to children of “dgs, paedophilia and homosexualy” – or anythg else the Kreml ems ntradictory to “tradnal fay valu”, although the law do not fe what those valu are some siari wh the UK’s homophobic Sectn 28 legislatn, which prohibed the “promotn of homosexualy” by lol thori and was force om 1988 to Put claims that the propaganda law “do not discrimate agast gay people”, both the European Court of Human Rights and the UN’s Human Rights Commtee have said that rerc stigma, enurag homophobia and harms children the ’s new? The expand law will make providg rmatn about homosexualy – and even childls fai – legally on a par wh pornography or promotg suici, vlence and crimal or extremist behavur.

But now unr the new law, the s may shut down a , LGBTIQ rights groups and other non-ernmental anisatns receivg funds om abroad have also been legally required to self-intify as “foreign agents” echo the Natnal Secury bill proposed by nservative MP Pri Patel, which would make an offence for journalists or publitns receivg fundg om a foreign state to report on ‘rtricted’ official ’s Mistry of Jtice add the Rsian LGBT Network a proment gay and transgenr rights umbrella group, to the “foreign agent” registry November last then, an creasg number of LGBTIQ rights groups have been targeted – and even forcibly closed. This April, the Charable Foundatn Sphere, which provis fancial support to LGBTIQ iativ across Rsia, was the ‘gay propaganda’ law crease vlence agast LGBTIQ people? Followg the troductn of the first versn of the ‘gay propaganda’ law almost a ago, the most flagrant vlatns of LGBTIQ rights have been documented the North Cs, pecially Chechnya, where secury forc have illegally taed, kidnapped, arrted, tortured and killed gay and transgenr 2021, 78% of rponnts to a natnwi survey by the Rsian LGBT Network reported that they had faced vlence or discrimatn nnectn to their genr inty and/or sexual orientatn.

Nearly a third of the cints of vlence were mted by anised homophobic and transphobic vigilante survey also found that law enforcement and judicial systems refe to vtigate such crim, spe the fact that homosexualy was crimalised Rsia 1993.

RSIA PROPOS EXTENDG ‘GAY PROPAGANDA’ LAW TO ALL ADULTS

A European urt has led that Rsia’s so-lled “gay propaganda law” is discrimatory, promot homophobia and vlat the European Conventn on Human Rights.

RSIAN LAWMAKERS PROPOSE EXTENDG 'GAY PROPAGANDA' LAW TO ALL ADULTS

The law bans “propaganda of non-tradnal sexual relatns around mors” and was jtified by Rsia’s Duma as a necsary measure to protect children om homosexual fluence.

RSIA’S ‘GAY PROPAGANDA’ LAWS ARE ILLEGAL, EUROPEAN COURT RUL

On Tuday the European Court of Human Rights Strasbourg, France found that three gay Rsian activists were discrimated agast and their right to eedom of exprsn vlated when they were fed for prottg agast the law. Nikolay Bayev, Aleksey Kiselev and Nikolay Alekseyev staged protts between 2009 and 2012, holdg banners statg that homosexualy is natural and normal, and not a perversn, acrdg to the urt lg.

“Above all, by adoptg such laws the urt found that the thori had rerced stigma and prejudice and enuraged homophobia, which was patible wh the valu – of equaly, pluralism and tolerance – of a mocratic society, ” the urt document said. After the lg was announced, TASS reported that the Jtice Mistry disagreed wh , sayg: “The relevant acts did not tablish any measur aimed at banng homosexualy or s official censure, did not nta any signs of discrimatn and, s general sense, did not allow excsive actn by public thori. Petersburg who left Rsia after his parents threatened to sue his therapist who backed him receivg hormone therapy; and Ivan, 18, who is gay, half Rsian and half Ukraian, and “didn’t want to kill people.

“My parents are very nservative and they don’t believe gay people should exist, ” said Max, who didn’t disclose his last name for fear of retaliatn agast his parents who live St. A survey published 2020 by Mosw-based non-ernmental rearch anizatn the Levada Center, found that about 30% of Rsians wanted to isolate gay people om society.