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Not a good time to be gay in Russia – reporter
On the outskirts of Moscow, Masha Gessen is preparing dinner for her friends and family. She is an…
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On the outskirts of Moscow, Masha Gessen is preparing dinner for her friends and family. She is an openly gay Russian-American journalist, who has three children with her girlfriend. But last June, President Putin and the Russian parliament unanimously passed a federal law which she says specifically targets her family.
Having won landslide support in the Duma, the bill bans the spreading of so-called “propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations” among minors.
While Putin claims this action helps safeguard and enshrine traditional Russian values, Gessen is adamant there is another reason behind the law: “Twenty months ago he looked out his window and saw the first set of huge protests. What he saw were enemies protesting not his regime, but Russia itself. That meant they were foreigners. The ‘others’. And LGBT people are the quintessential foreign agents. The quintessential ‘other’. It has nothing to do with homophobia, per say. It’s xenophobia in general. But who better personifies foreign or western influence than LGBTs. So we’re the first target but we’re not going to be the only target. It’s going to broaden out.”
Since the laws were passed targeting the LGBT community – which stands for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender – there has been confrontation, first on a regional and then on a national level. Subsequent decrees have followed, including one banning adoption by gay couples and another allowing jail sentences of up to three years for blasphemy and “offending religious feelings”.
Gay rights activists’ worst fears of an increase in hate crimes have been realised with an upsurge in homophobic vigilantism since the introduction of the legislation, and even killings in some parts of Russia.
Elena Kostyuchenko works for Novaya Gazeta, one of Russia’s only independent newspapers to have come out as critical of the Kremlin. She is also a gay rights activist and the creator of the first ‘kiss-in protests’ in Moscow, which sparked other same-sex smooching rallies in front of Russian consulates across the world.
Kostyuchenko says the legislation has emboldened right-wing groups and LGBT protests in Russia now tend to follow a predictable routine: “They come to beat us up. How does this happen? We go in front of the Duma and kiss. They try to hit us and sometimes they succeed. They throw rotten eggs at us, ketchup, urine. The last time they put human faeces in condoms and threw them at us. Normally the police just stand there on the side and once we’ve been beaten up a bit, they take us away. That’s more or less how it happens.”
While Putin has come under heavy criticism from the United States and the EU for these laws, he has found a staunch ally in the Russian Orthodox Church. Forced underground during the Soviet era, today this religious body professes total allegiance to the state and warns that same sex marriage will lead to the Apocalypse.
As their spokesman, Vsevolod Chaplin, explained, the Russian Orthodox Church also believes homosexuals are trying to indoctrinate children with their values: “People are free to choose but now we’re seeing this lack of freedom when homosexuality is imposed on children and on adolescents. This is done through the internet, through (western) political propaganda, by political actions, by the gay lobby. And we don’t want this phenomenon being imposed on our children or adults by political pressure.”
Critics claim this type of argument gives extreme religious groups the green light for the harassment of homosexuals. Leonid Aprelsky is a member of the religious group ‘God’s Will’ and while he admits that sometimes there is confrontation, he says that today the law, and the police, are on their side: “Thanks to the new laws that have been adopted, now, for example, if we see sodomites openly walking in the streets handing out flyers with their ideas to children, all we have to do is call the police.”
His priest, Dmitry Smirnov, trusts in the common sense of those in the Duma: “It’s difficult to imagine that the entire parliament is made up of crazy people. So if the parliament is busy drafting such laws and voting for them at almost 100 percent, this means that they consider them relevant.”
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@waynesilva9157
March 20, 2024 at 3:47 pm
It's never a good time to be gay anywhere.
@loganthomas3575
March 20, 2024 at 3:47 pm
A lot of closeted people commentating on this. spouting on about religion but before getting upset, Think of it this way as a psychological point of view many people who ‘act’ homophobic whilst spouting on about religion are usually trying to hide their own insecurities hiding their own homosexual tendencies.
@todddeleon6183
March 20, 2024 at 3:47 pm
Man, they are protesting because they want to stop bullying not spreading propaganda.
@paultube5658
March 20, 2024 at 3:47 pm
Screw PUTIN
@carlosramos5256
March 20, 2024 at 3:47 pm
Then, don't be
@keokukramey9008
March 20, 2024 at 3:47 pm
These LGBT activist don’t understand they literally think getting rid of Putin will get rid of these anti-gay laws they won’t he just responded to what the majority of people were thinking in the country and if Putin steps down from office someone just like him will replace him
@anaa9245
March 20, 2024 at 3:47 pm
Let them live in peace
@gachashit8617
March 20, 2024 at 3:47 pm
This is why i don't like russia. :C
@stoner63reflex65
March 20, 2024 at 3:47 pm
Well…… I'm moving to Russia 🔥🔥🔥🏳️🌈
@lukagabelia564
March 20, 2024 at 3:47 pm
Russia wants to take my country but I love Russia now
@blucodilla5036
March 20, 2024 at 3:47 pm
Wowww! Russia is like heaven for having the law against the lgbtq&a 🤣 I love you Russia! 👏❤
@keithwalker4121
March 20, 2024 at 3:47 pm
Well done Russia.
@tomshay391
March 20, 2024 at 3:47 pm
Thank you Vladmir Putin.
@hdhwjdyhwjsy3557
March 20, 2024 at 3:47 pm
The homophobes who think putin is a smart politician or a moral person…. lmaooo you must be really stupid. I didn't know there are so many slavaboos nowdays. Russia and all the other former countries of the Soviet Union are degraded, immoral undeveloped countries. I am from there bruh, it is worse than you think. Putins propaganda of himself works on stupid, uninformed animals like you
@nikolanikola8543
March 20, 2024 at 3:47 pm
Being gay is normal… Russia is disgusting
@siddhartharoy6744
March 20, 2024 at 3:47 pm
This is why i love russia.
@Dan42069___
March 20, 2024 at 3:47 pm
I wish America was more like Russia, i would actually be proud of my home state of California
@ethansuico905
March 20, 2024 at 3:47 pm
Russia! The capital of COMMON SENSES!!
@Sarfnic
March 20, 2024 at 3:47 pm
People still hate gay people? Russia, this is 2018, learn to grow an actual brain and give people rights to love whoever they want.
@petropetrika9542
March 20, 2024 at 3:47 pm
Be gay in ur own home not out of it or face a good beatdown
@seandunn514
March 20, 2024 at 3:47 pm
Russia doesn't want to be politically correct like the west gays bring it on themselves by holding hands and kissing in the streets
@sammilun3932
March 20, 2024 at 3:47 pm
🖤RUSSIA IS DOING A GOOD JOB AS A COUNTRY
@superman1584
March 20, 2024 at 3:47 pm
Poor children such people don’t have the right to adopt children
@Robert39674
March 20, 2024 at 3:47 pm
God bless Russia and their people. Gay propaganda is very powerful in West and lots of NGOs pumps billions of dollars in all kind of ads, projects, schools and universities. The west is disgusting this days, but all this its gonna change in the future, people are fed up with Marxist agenda.
@jorgeisaacponceposligua1324
March 20, 2024 at 3:47 pm
moving to russia , it is a good country
@UhtredOfBamburgh
March 20, 2024 at 3:47 pm
Not a good time to be gay in Russia? I would argue that its never a good time to be anything in Russia.
@politicsii4378
March 20, 2024 at 3:47 pm
I dont get why people hate gays there the same as us just into boys there's nothing wrong with that!!
@user-kl3fy8lz2c
March 20, 2024 at 3:47 pm
Россия признана самой плохой европейской страной для проживания геев.
Горжусь своей Империей !!!
@dennisleporte2327
March 20, 2024 at 3:47 pm
Nothing like youtube for people to totally get off topic posing and pontificating like they are someone important. All ridiculous,poetical rubbish.
@zachrennison4671
March 20, 2024 at 3:47 pm
good for putin and russia the world is turning to shit and he is keeping his country clean. NO gays
@bambamboom777
March 20, 2024 at 3:47 pm
It sounds like the average Russian has the moral conscience and ethical standards of a 13 year old future serial killer. I'm so sick of their Orwellian justifications of everything. I watched a video of this lone skinny girl being taunted, slapped, things thrown at her, by a mob of a couple hundred enraged people. And the reason for their anger? She was standing there holding a rainbow flag.
Good god what kind of people have so such puny little lives that they take the time to go and terrorize a teenage girl for the atrocity of holding up a piece cloth? And not one person comes to her defense. In the U.S. if we saw someone being harassed like that or being treated like less than human being by bullies, most of us would do something or at the very least call the police. I don't care what the person has done or who they are, nobody deserves that.
Even worse, the police finally come and instead protecting her, they place her under arrest for promoting pedophilia. And the crowd cheers and slaps themselves on the back for being such good people. But not satisfied with that, they continue to angrily pile on the hate at a level one would direct towards a genocidal tyrant. And apparently the majority of people around the country saw this as a heroic act.
It's hard to even comprehend this. That so many people are so psychotic that they consider a teenage girl holding a flag to be threatening, yet they don't even question the rationality of such a belief or the justification of their response, wow, I'm astonished that people like this exist. There doesn't seem to any objectivity, standards of proof, equal protection under the law, consistent standards, not even an attempt to be perceived as being fair and just.
It seems right and wrong are decided by whatever fits the agenda of "we are the best, non-Russians suck. And their morals appear to be based mainly on hatred of homosexuality. Just try to have a conversation with some of these people. It's hilarious that they won't even concede the least little thing, totally defame somebody or hurl offensive insults and then act outraged that their culture isn't being respected. Then they smugly compliment themselves on their moral superiority and boast of their bravery in defending human rights against the hateful and intolerant gays.
I just have to laugh. I find it hard to believe anyone could be delusional enough to think that way. But you keep it over and over. And forget about compassion, empathy, humility, tolerance, compromise or even the slightest attempt to acknowledge that other points of view might exist. Those things don't seem to exist in their mind. I keep hoping that this isn't how most Russians are but I keep seeing the same attitude. If that's what Nationalism does to people then I feel sorry for them. Having no humanity is going to result in their decline, but they'll keep blaming homosexuals.
@kimhenno
March 20, 2024 at 3:47 pm
Oh and you His brainwashed by your leader Putin. He does not give one a fuck about you, just that you have not yet realized, but that can not be otherwise because of your short-sightedness. Putin is a major criminal and he has you in his power
@kimhenno
March 20, 2024 at 3:47 pm
Ray Daniels:What are you stupid .. A child does not become a gay child is born with. You are so shortsighted. Dig into it once, check it out on research, a talk with them and then draw your conclusion. And otherwise keep those stupid silly talk to you.
@7Krueger7
March 20, 2024 at 3:47 pm
So? This is the law against gay propaganda among children! This is quite rationality.
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March 20, 2024 at 3:47 pm
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@keishasphynx5336
March 20, 2024 at 3:47 pm
U know what jusso. U are Turining prejudice u are straight but other people aren't u should really quit stop being idiot they can marry if they want to