Anti lgbtq russia
In 2023, the “LGBTQ+ movement” in Russia was labelled as “extremist”. This marked the culmination of a troubling 30-year cycle from the decriminalisation of homosexuality in 1993, via the introduction of the “gay propaganda law” in 2013 through years of political and general discrimination against sexual minorities.
The progression in the mistreatment of LGBTQ+ people in Russia has coincided with the progression of Putin’s regime, which has become more autocratic. The Russian supreme court’s recent assessment that the international LGBTQ+ community is an “extremist” movement represents a hybrid recriminalisation of homosexuality 30 years after the ban was removed.
From now, on identifying as LGBTQ+ is hazardous in Russia as it can be interpreted as “participating in an extremist organisation”, which is a criminal offence. Essentially, we are back to the situation before 1993.
Before Putin
Even back in 1993, the decriminalisation of homosexuality by Boris Yeltsin’s government appears to contain been something of a box-ticking workout, required for joining the Council of Europe. The bill that decriminalised consensual sex between men was adopted without any public debate as part
Just over three decades after Russia decriminalised homosexuality in 1993, three people own been arrested and charged under the country’s harsh unused anti-LGBT laws and could face ten years in prison for membership of an “extremist organisation”.
The arrests are a clear indication of how Russia has come complete circle on its persecution of sexual minorities under Vladimir Putin.
On March 21, the district court of Orenburg municipality in south-western Russia ordered the arrest of nightclub owner Vyacheslav Khasanov. The nightclub, which is called Pose, has never explicitly identified as a homosexual club – styling itself as a “parody theatre bar”, it hosted parties with drag queen artists and go-go dancers as business.
In a urge release announcing the arrest, the court said that as the owner of the club, Khasanov organised participation in an extremist organisation, “acting as the leader of an organised group of persons by prior conspiracy”. The specific actions included organising the work of such premises, and publishing photos and videos from performances “promoting non-traditional sexual relationships and preferences”. Khasanov was arrested at the airport when trying to flee the cou
Russian court bans ‘LGBT movement’ as ‘extremist’
Russia’s Supreme Court has ruled that LGBTQ activists should be designated as “extremists”, in a move that representatives of gay and transgender people fear will lead to arrests and prosecutions.
The court ruled on Thursday that “the international LGBT general movement and its subdivisions” were extremist, and issued a “ban on its activities on the area of Russia”.
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The ruling, which the judge said would be effective immediately, did not specify whether certain individuals or organisations would be affected.
The hearing took place behind closed doors and without any defence pr
A decade of violence: anti-LGBTQ hate crimes in Russia in the era of autocratization
The level of despise crimes against LGBTQ people is on the ascend in Russia. This issue is closely connected with the introduction of the so-called “gay propaganda law” in 2013 – a censorship legislation banning LGBTQ-related content from circulation and LGBTQ activists from organising public events. This discriminatory legal norm increased levels of prejudice and deeply affected the LGBTQ society. The Russian authorities perform not recognise homophobic abhor crimes and do not monitor them. Moreover, some authorities make statements prefer “We don't have those kinds of people here. We don't have any gays. You cannot execute those who do not exist”. The purpose of this research project was to prove it wrong.
In order to do that, our research team used online public databases of court rulings to locate cases of violence against LGBTQ people and produce statistics on them. Between 2010 and 2020 we managed to identify 1056 hate crimes committed against 853 individuals, with 365 fatalities. The number of crimes after the “gay propaganda” law was enacted is three times higher than before. The emergence
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Bledniy, a 37-year-old Russian blogger, knew he was gay at 12 years old.
“I was born in a small town, in the Altai territory,” he told Al Jazeera, of his home in Western Siberia.
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end of list“As a child, when I realised that I was gay, I also realised that I was the loneliest person on planet Earth, because the only gay person I knew was me.”
Now living in Moscow, Bledniy, or Pale in English, which is the name he blogs under, is more comfortable with his individuality and feels lucky to have so far escaped any homophobic assaults.
But the climate for the LGBTQ community in Russia is growing ever more hostile.
On October 27, the Duma, the lower house of Russia’s parliament, threw its support behind bills prohibiting the “propaganda of non-traditional relations”.
Two bills were insert forward by lawmakers Alexander Khinshtein and Nina Ostanina.
The first bill, proposed