Contents:
- RSIA: EXPAND 'GAY PROPAGANDA' BAN PROGRS TOWARD LAW
- RSIAN LAWMAKERS MOVE TO TOUGHEN ‘GAY PROPAGANDA’ LAW, BANNG ALL ADULTS OM ‘PROMOTG’ SAME-SEX RELATNSHIPS
- EXPLAER: WHAT DO NEW ‘GAY PROPAGANDA’ LAW MEAN FOR LGBTIQ+ RSIANS?
- WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT RSIA’S SO-CALLED ‘GAY PROPAGANDA’ BILL
- RSIAN PARLIAMENT MOV TO EXPAND 'GAY PROPAGANDA' LAW
- RSIAN LAWMAKERS PROPOSE EXTENDG 'GAY PROPAGANDA' LAW TO ALL ADULTS
- RSIA PROPOS EXTENDG ‘GAY PROPAGANDA’ LAW TO ALL ADULTS
- RSIAN LAWMAKERS PROPOSE EXTENDG 'GAY PROPAGANDA' LAW TO ALL ADULTS
RSIA: EXPAND 'GAY PROPAGANDA' BAN PROGRS TOWARD LAW
The discrimatory law propos to ban all Rsians om promotg or “praisg” homosexual relatnships or publicly suggtg that they are “normal. 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 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.
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. In an earlier sermon, Kirill bizarrely blamed the untry’s vasn of Ukrae on gay pri rights activists on Thursday nmned the bill.
RSIAN LAWMAKERS MOVE TO TOUGHEN ‘GAY PROPAGANDA’ LAW, BANNG ALL ADULTS OM ‘PROMOTG’ SAME-SEX RELATNSHIPS
“This law is part of an ongog homophobic ernment mpaign agast LGBTQ rights, ” said Kochetkov, who recently left Rsia. ”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. ”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.
EXPLAER: WHAT DO NEW ‘GAY PROPAGANDA’ LAW MEAN FOR LGBTIQ+ RSIANS?
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.
WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT RSIA’S SO-CALLED ‘GAY PROPAGANDA’ BILL
Potg to the reactns, Kochetkov said the new law would not drastilly change the way Rsians viewed lbians, gay men, bisexuals and transgenr people. 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. “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.
RSIAN PARLIAMENT MOV TO EXPAND 'GAY PROPAGANDA' LAW
The 2013 “gay propaganda, ” law has been extensively ed by the ernment to stifle pro-LGBT events and to shutdown anizatns and onle media.
RSIAN LAWMAKERS PROPOSE EXTENDG 'GAY PROPAGANDA' LAW TO ALL ADULTS
“The proposed legislatn and the origal ‘gay propaganda’ ban have no place any society and belong the trash. MOSCOW, Nov 24 (Rters) - Rsia's parliament approved on Thursday a bill that wins a prohibn of "LGBT propaganda" and rtricts the "monstratn" of LGBT behavur, makg any exprsn of an LGBT liftyle almost the new law, which still needs the approval of the upper hoe of parliament and Print Vladimir Put, any actn or rmatn that is nsired an attempt to promote homosexualy - whether public, onle, or films, books or advertisg - uld cur a heavy fe.
RSIA PROPOS EXTENDG ‘GAY PROPAGANDA’ LAW TO ALL ADULTS
Authori have already ed the existg law to stop gay pri march and ta gay rights activists. 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.
'HYBRID WARFARE'"LGBT today is an element of hybrid warfare and this hybrid warfare we mt protect our valu, our society and our children, " Alexanr Khste, one of the bill's archects, said last experts said the vaguens of the bill's language giv room for law enforcers to terpret them as broadly as they wish, leavg members of the LGBT muny a state of even greater take part the LGBT (lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr) muny rally "VIII St. REUTERS/Anton Vaganov/File PhotoKseniya Mikhailova of the LGBT support group Vykhod ("Comg Out") said adults-only gay bars or clubs would probably still be allowed to functn, although perhaps not to advertise, but that same-sex kissg public might be taken as an she said same-sex upl would beg to fear that their children might be taken om them on the grounds that they were havg an LGBT liftyle monstrated to law stipulat f of up to 400, 000 roubl ($6, 600) for dividuals and up to 5 ln roubl ($82, 100) for legal enti. 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.
RSIAN LAWMAKERS PROPOSE EXTENDG 'GAY PROPAGANDA' LAW TO ALL ADULTS
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. Rsian lawmakers agreed to toughen the untry’s discrimatory law agast so-lled same-sex “propaganda, ” movg to ban all Rsians om promotg or “praisg” homosexual relatnships or publicly suggtg that they are “normal. At a speech Mosw on Thursday, Put assailed Wtern culture and told a crowd: “The Wt n do whatever they want wh gay paras but they shouldn’t dictate the same l for Rsia.
“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.
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”.