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, by VOROBYOV Niko
Moscow is increasingly cracking down on the minority community, forcing some to flee.
In his early 20s, Mikhail* (not his real name), a gay man from the city of Ufa in Russia, was doing what he loved: drag performances.
“I was going on tour, to competitions; I met new artists and planned (…)
, by VEZHEVATOVA Liliya
Why has pressure on LGBT+ people in Russia increased to frightening proportions since the full-scale invasion into Ukraine? How are people fighting back against repression? Feminist and LGBT+ activist Liliya Vezhevatova on the predicament of the community against the backdrop of rising (…)
, by EPSU
The EPSU General Secretary and EPSU Vice-President Thomas Kattnig joined Europe’s trade union leaders in condemning the acts and attacks of the Russian government against people and activists of the LGBT+ community. On the 30th of November the Russian Supreme Court banned the activities of the (…)
, by NICHOLS Dick
What Lula’s electoral victory means for antifascist organizing in brazil
Russia’s lower house of parliament, the State Duma, passed on its first reading a bill on October 27, to outlaw promotion of “non-traditional sexual relations”. Not one of the 400 MPs opposed it.
Duma chairman (…)
, by Feminist Anti-War Resistance/FAS (Russia)
The bill expands the list of information prohibited for distribution to children: propaganda and demonstration of non-traditional sexual relationships and/or preferences, as well as information that may cause children to wish to change their sex.
On paid resources, such information can only (…)
, by Feminist Anti-War Resistance/FAS (Russia)
"This is a battle we cannot lose, for the future of Russian civilisation depends on it.” (Peter Tolstoy)
Yesterday, the State Duma held a high-profile meeting about the new anti-LGBT bills. Leaving aside the accusations of sodomy by Peppa Piggy’s friends, attempts to “justify Nabokov” and the (…)
, by LANGENBURG Artem
Why anti-Ukrainian propaganda is anti-LGBTQ? Will the Russian anti-gay law be tightened up? Why do dictatorships always revert to homophobic oppression? Journalist, culture expert and gay activist Artem Langenburg answers these questions
In mid-July of this year, a new bill that radical left (…)
, by KELLEHER Patrick
An LGBT+ charity in Russia that has provided support to the community for more than a decade has been formally dissolved by the courts.
Charitable Foundation Sphere was formally dissolved by Kuibyshev District Court judge Tatiana Kuzovkina on Thursday (21 April) after the Russian ministry for (…)
, by YOUNG Cathy
How the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, a Putin enabler, spins the war.
In the past ten days, plenty of rationalizations have been offered for Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine—everything from “Russia needs a buffer state to keep NATO at a distance” (just about every Kremlin (…)
, by GARSHINA Diane
We can’t stop this war, started by our own government, but we can express our solidarity and support for Ukraine and all its people
Working in human rights in Russia can give one a misleading sense of invincibility. Despite the dehumanising legislation and fact that the government sees (…)
, by MILTON Josh
An LGBT+ social media page followed by tens of thousands of queer Russians and allies blocked by authorities has vowed to continue fighting for equality.
The Alliance of Straights and LGBT for Equality page on VKontakte, Russia’s most popular social network, was removed on 19 March at the (…)
, by KOCHETKOV Igor, SHTORN Evgeny
This year, brutal repressions against LGBT people continued in Chechnya. Here, the director of the Russian LGBT Network speaks about why this keeps happening.
Today, LGBT people in Russia are facing unprecedented levels of hate crime.
In the North Caucasus Republic of Chechnya, the (…)
, by GESSEN Masha
I can think of only two times it’s happened to me: I read a news story, or even a series of stories, and thought that it contained such extreme exaggerations that it had to be, essentially, false. I could enumerate my reasons, which were similar both times: the stories came from the Russian (…)
, by LUHN Alec
Five people detained as they tried to submit a petition calling for an inquiry into a violent crackdown on gay people in the southern Russian republic.
Five LGBT activists were detained in Moscow on Thursday while trying to submit a petition signed by two million people calling for an (…)
, by WALKER Shaun
Russian newspaper says it has evidence that at least three men have been killed in ‘prophylactic sweep’ in Chechnya.
Authorities in the Russian republic of Chechnya have launched an anti-gay campaign that has led to authorities rounding up dozens of men suspected of being homosexual, (…)
, by WALKER Shaun
Up to several hundred gay men are feared to have been rounded up and some killed in ultra-conservative Russian republic.
At least once a day, Adam’s captors attached metal clamps to his fingers and toes. One of the men then cranked a handle on a machine to which the clamps were linked with (…)
, by CHAN Sewell, DUFFY Nick, MILLIKEN Alice
Reports that authorities in Chechnya have been rounding up gay people have been verified by human rights groups.
Early reports emerged last week that gay people are being targeted in the region : “The information published by Novaya Gazeta is consistent with the reports Human Rights Watch (…)
, by ELDER Miriam
Law will make it illegal to equate straight and gay relationships and to distribute gay rights material.
Russia’s parliament has unanimously passed a federal law banning gay “propaganda” amid a Kremlin push to enshrine deeply conservative values that critics say has already led to a sharp (…)
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