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Articles with tag "LGBT"

‘My Government Doesn’t See Me as a Citizen’: Russian Ex-State Worker Reflects on Being Outed, Forced Into Exile

Denis Leontovich said he wished to share his story “to help others who remain in Russia and fear similar persecution.”

LGBTQ+ Support Group in Russia’s Yekaterinburg Closes Amid ‘Anti-Queer Pressure’

Lupta’s closure comes almost a year after the Russian Supreme Court banned the so-called “international LGBT movement” as “extremist.”
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Russian Ex-Official Outed as Gay Flees Country, Denounces War

Denis Leontovich, an ex-employee of the Samara region’s youth policy agency, was accused of belonging to a “secret gay lobby” that influences young...
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Moscow Arrests Man for ‘LGBT Propaganda’ and ‘Satanism'

Russia banned what it called the "international LGBT movement" in November last year.
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Russian MPs Back Adoption Ban on Countries Allowing Gender Reassignment

MPs said they wanted to ensure that adopted Russian children would not go through gender reassignment abroad.
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Russian Streaming Website Kinopoisk Fined $110K for ‘LGBT Propaganda’

A Moscow court also fined the company for “propaganda of pedophilia.”
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Documentary Explores the Intersectional Struggle of Queer, Indigenous People in Russia

“Intersections” ventures into territory previously unexplored.
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Russian Lawmakers Urge Sberbank to Remove Rainbow Unicorn from Kids' Bank Cards Over ‘LGBT Symbols’ 

The State Duma’s Family, Women and Children Committee said that “rainbow symbols” are an attribute of the banned “international LGBT movement.”...
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Dagestan Man Caught in Gay Entrapment Scheme Flees Russia – Activists

The Dagestani police force has allegedly been carrying out an entrapment scheme against gay men with the goal of exposing “an entire network” of LGBTQ+...
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Russia’s First Transgender Politician Says Detransitioned Due to Threats

Yulia Alyoshina said she had received “insider information that the Russian authorities want to lock me up in a psychiatric hospital.”
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‘We Will Go Underground’: Russia’s Drag Artists Forced Into the Shadows

In an interview with MT, a former member of Moscow’s drag collectives describes life and drag under Russia’s intensifying anti-LGBTQ+ restrictions...
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Russia’s First Transgender Politician Announces Detransition

Roman Alyoshin, who previously went by the name Yulia Alyoshina, dropped his bid to run for governor in Siberia’s Altai region last year.
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TikTok Users Turn Russian Pro-War Song Into ‘LGBT Anthem’

The trend appears aimed at ironically juxtaposing “extremist” LGBTQ+ lifestyles with the songs’s militaristic overtones.
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Russian Official Accused of Same-Sex Relationship Resigns

A federal lawmaker had claimed that the Samara region’s Minister of Youth Policy was in a relationship with one of his male assistants.
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Shuttered Siberian Queer Bar Fined for ‘LGBT Propaganda’

The bar’s owner announced its abrupt closure last month following a police raid over a “provocative” party with drag show performers.
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Russia Adds ‘LGBT Movement’ to ‘Terrorists and Extremists’ List

It was not immediately clear how authorities plan to enforce rules against the vaguely defined “LGBT movement.”
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Russia Arrests Gay Club Managers in First LGBTQ+ ‘Extremism’ Criminal Case

The club's art director and bar manager face up to 10 years in prison if found guilty of “organizing extremist activities.”
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Queerness as Extremism: The Assault on LGBTQ+ Rights in Russia

Anthropologist Olga Doletskaya contextualizes the anti-LGBTQ+ crackdown and explains what the extremist designation means for Russia's LGBTQ+ community...
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Russia Opens First Criminal Case Into ‘LGBT Extremism,’ Says Mizulina

Pro-war activists said earlier this month that they helped police target the gay club Pose for spreading “LGBT propaganda.”
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Nadezhdin's Far East Campaign Head Jailed for ‘LGBT Propaganda’ in Hacked Private Chat

Igor Krasnov posted an image of a rainbow flag in the Vladivostok campaign headquarters’ closed Telegram chat which was hacked by security forces.
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