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Contents:

• WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT RSIA’S SO-CALLED ‘GAY PROPAGANDA’ BILL
• GAY COUPLE STGGL TO STAY TOGETHER AS WAR UKRAE RAG ON
• PUT EXPANDS ‘GAY PROPAGANDA’ BAN, THREATENG LGBTQ CRACKDOWN
• RSIA RPONDS TO GAY BOMB, AND OTHER APRIL FOOLS' NEWS
• BOMBS AND BLASPHEMY: THE RISKS OF WATCHG GAY ART RSIA
• WHAT HAPPENED TO THE ENOLA GAY AFTER IT DROPPED THE ATOMIC BOMB
• GAY THE USSR
• RSIAN NSTUTN CHANGE ENDS HOP FOR GAY MARRIAGE

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

On Monday, Rsian Print Vladimir Put signed to effect the “gay propaganda” bill, which Rsian lawmakers unanimoly approved November.

GAY COUPLE STGGL TO STAY TOGETHER AS WAR UKRAE RAG ON

It also prohibs Rsians om promotg or “praisg” homosexual relatnships or publicly suggtg that they are “normal. What do the “gay propaganda” bill say?

The new “gay propaganda” bill expands on existg legislatn that was adopted by the Kreml 2013 to promote “tradnal” fay valu Rsia. The 2013 law prohibed pictns of homosexualy, same-sex unns, and “non-tradnal sexual relatns” to be shown to mors. ” 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.

PUT EXPANDS ‘GAY PROPAGANDA’ BAN, THREATENG LGBTQ CRACKDOWN

Rsia crimalized homosexualy 1993, but homophobia and discrimatn is still rife. 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.

Read More: Rsia’s Anti-Gay Laws: How a Dutch Activist Got Cght the Crosshairs How are human rights advot rpondg to this law? 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 urt rejected suggtns that public bate on LGBTQ issu uld fluence children to bee homosexual or that threatened public morals.

RSIA RPONDS TO GAY BOMB, AND OTHER APRIL FOOLS' NEWS

That’s how Maxim wound up close enough to Stepan that they uld see each other on Hor, a gay hookup app. Rsia has been stokg homophobia the regn ever sce Rsia enacted s so-lled “gay propaganda ban” ne years ago. So they lived quietly, always reful about who knew they were gay.

Many queer people fled the new regime, and the fear that queer people might be targeted seemed to e te 2015, when the one gay club the regn was raid by separatists, who beat and robbed the patrons.

BOMBS AND BLASPHEMY: THE RISKS OF WATCHG GAY ART RSIA

They were still reful about who they told they were gay — Stepan didn’t even feel fortable tellg the doctor at the clic where he got his HIV treatment.

While many LGBTQ people enthiastilly enlisted, many other queer people, like Stepan and Maxim, didn’t believe the ary would be a safe place for them bee of wispread homophobia.

WHAT HAPPENED TO THE ENOLA GAY AFTER IT DROPPED THE ATOMIC BOMB

They were aaid they would be targeted as gays if Rsian-aligned troops ptured their town. They shared a small room wh seven other gay men — and five ts — everyone sleepg si by si on mattrs on the floor.

All the rints were gay men or trans women wh male documents, and the whole buildg was on edge as they strategized wh volunteer se workers about how to get whe tickets and leave the untry. ’” But Stepan don’t want to tell his client that he’s gay, or HIV-posive, or get to any of the other personal tails such a nversatn would require. Move outlaws portrayal of gay relatns books, films, mediaMeasure expands law to ver adults as well as childrenPeople wave rabow flags durg a rally Sat Petersburg 2017.

Photographer: Olga Maltseva/AFP/Getty ImagRsian Print Vladimir Put signed to law on Monday a sweepg ban on the posive portrayal of gay relatnships books, films, the media and the Inter, regardls of ban on “propaganda of non-tradnal sexual relatns” expands Rsia’s 2013 law that prohibed the promotn of homosexualy to children. The new legislatn now mak illegal to prent posive imag to adults of gay relatnships media and NextPut Expands ‘Gay Propaganda’ Ban, Threateng LGBTQ Crackdown. Nato prevents outbreak of war Gent Romania Outlaws Jok (and stray dogs) to imprs NATO lears Rsia Develops Answer to Gay BombMore om WIREDUS Spi Are Lobbyg Congrs to Save a Phone Surveillance 'Loophole'The Natnal Secury Agency has urged top lawmakers to rist mands that obta warrants for sensive data sold by data of Duty Players H Wh Self-Spreadg MalwarePl: Rsia tightens social media censorship, new cyberattack reportg l for US pani, and Google Street View returns to Germany.

GAY THE USSR

MOSCOW (Thomson Rters Foundatn) - Whenever the play “Out of the Closet” is performed, Rsian drama pany has to take extra preutns: the dienc’ passports are checked to ensure everyone is at least 18 and the procs is filmed to prove the law has been is no nudy and few obscene words the play, which is about Rsian gay men g out to their parents. In 2014, the theater was evicted om s se after stagg a satire that lampooned Print Vladimir Put and a productn about the ath jail of whistleblower Sergei latt battle is to tell lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT+) stori Rsia, where homosexualy was a crimal offense until 1993 and classed as a mental illns until plays, films and books have been censored and attacked and vlence toward gay people has creased sce 2013, when the Kreml adopted the “gay propaganda” law as part of a drive to fend what Put lled Rsia’s “tradnal valu”.

”Trouble me Augt, when anti-gay protters attempted to dispt “Out of the Closet” by repeatedly llg the police to the theater and picketg the eveng performance was terpted when a mor wh a fake ID was planted the dience and hecklers acced of breakg the law, said Patlay, who was taken to the police statn for qutng, along wh the, a vigilante group that scrib self as “pro-Kreml”, said on Rsian social work VK that dispted the play, which s lear Gosha Tarasevich said was “a ncero abscs on the body of Rsia”. Rsian Orthodox relig activists vad the stage durg a performance 2013 of gay Irish playwright Osr Wil’s “An Ial Hband”, which they said was blasphemo for featurg a gay years later, monstrators St.

RSIAN NSTUTN CHANGE ENDS HOP FOR GAY MARRIAGE

Petersburg tried to dispt “All Shas of Blue”, a play about gay men, first by urgg the dience not to enter the theater, and then by reportg a bomb the buildg after the show had started. RISKSWhile the “gay propaganda” law do not require LGBT+ ntent to be removed om films and plays - merely for them to be clearly marked as suable only for over 18s - film distributors sometim choose to lete provotive May, Rsian film distributor Central Partnership eded out all the gay sex scen “Rocketman”, the Elton John bpic, followg s general release the a statement, the pany said did so to “ply wh the Rsian legislatn”.

”While there is no evince that anti-gay groups have ti to the thori, LGBT+ activists believe they are enuraged by the Kreml’s stance.

“The homophobic polici Rsian thori implement sentially breed the nservative groups, ” said Svetlana Zakharova, spokwoman for the Rsian LGBT Network, a mpaign group. After the Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, on Aug.