Rsia Created a "Flag for Straights" to Fight "Gay Fever" | Time

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• RSIA'S JEWISH FLAG IS NOT GAY, KREML EXPERT SAYS
• RSIA CREATED A "FLAG FOR STRAIGHTS" TO FIGHT "GAY FEVER"
• RSIA’S RULG PARTY UNVEILS ANTI-GAY “HETEROSEXUAL FLAG”

RSIA'S JEWISH FLAG IS NOT GAY, KREML EXPERT SAYS

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

1 Gilbert Baker Pri FlagWikimedia CommonsIn 1978, Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man elected to public office California, asked artist Gilbert Baker to create a Pri flag. A source told Philalphia Magaze, “Wh all of the Black and Brown activism that’s worked to addrs racism the Gayborhood over the past year, I thk the new flag is a great step for the cy to show the world that they’re workg toward fully supportg all members of our muny. "Regardg the siary of this flag wh the symbol of the gay movement, we expla that not every rabow image is lked to sexual orientatn, " Gey Vilbakhov, a Kreml advisor, reportedly wrote an official rponse to an unnamed rint of the far eastern regn who had raised ncerns over the flag.

RSIA CREATED A "FLAG FOR STRAIGHTS" TO FIGHT "GAY FEVER"

"On s flag the gay movement seven strip, not six, " Valyaev explaed. ""Gays ed this dive symbol, the rabow, but removed om s spectm the light blue lor, so 's already not a rabow, " he outlet did not reveal who had qutned the legaly of the regn's flag.

RSIA’S RULG PARTY UNVEILS ANTI-GAY “HETEROSEXUAL FLAG”

Rsian Print Vladimir Put's Uned Rsia party has urted ntroversy by unveilg a flag celebratg heterosexual "real fai" rponse to the US cisn to legalise gay marriage. Homosexualy is not illegal Rsia, however the untry has implemented a law sce 2013 which outlaws the e of symbols which uld be nsired "propaganda" promotg "non tradnal" Lisovenko, Uned Rsia's puty head Mosw, unveiled the flag today which picts a man and a woman holdg hands wh three children durg an exclive terview wh natnal daily flag is part of a planned social media mpaign to celebrate tradnal valu unr the hashtag #НастоящаяCемья (#RealFay), time for Rsia's natnal day of fay, love and fahfulns which was held today. We mt to warn agast gay fever our untry and support tradnal valu, " Lisovenko official unveilg of the flag tak place Mosw this eveng at a "tradnal valu march", a nservative parallel to gay pri march, which around 1, 000 Rsian fai have been ved to attend by Uned flag will e three lour schem, spired by the three lours of the Rsian flag.

A group of Lat Amerin activists cid to fy Rsian anti-gay laws wh a ltle help om their soccer jerseys. The fiant "Hidn Flag" — the brachild of LOLA Mullenlowe, a Spanish digal agency, and FELGTB, Spa's largt LGBTQ anizatn — is the latt effort to ll out rampant homophobia Rsia, pecially as the untry hosts the World Cup. "Unfortunately, 40 years later, there are still untri which homosexualy is persecuted, sometim even by jail sentenc, and which the rabow flag is forbidn.