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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPutin’s Anti-LGBT Law Turns One
In advance of the one-year anniversary of Russias notorious anti-LGBT law, today the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Foundation released a new report highlighting deeply disturbing trends of harassment, investigations, arrests, and acts of violence against LGBT Russians that have followed in its wake.
Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the internationally condemned and draconian anti-LGBT propaganda law on June 29, 2013, and it entered into force the following day. This lawand the homophobic and transphobic cultural debate that swirled around ithas fueled an appalling backlash against members of Russias LGBT community. HRC Foundations full Russia: Year in Reviewreport, which documents this backlash, is available here.
Witch hunts, arrests, poisonous gas attacks, and murders. Not only do these terms evoke powerful memories of brutal regimes that fill the pages of history books, they also represent the very real dangers that LGBT people face each and every day in Vladimir Putins Russia, said Ty Cobb, HRC Foundations Global Engagement Director. The evidence is clear: state-sponsored homophobia and transphobia in Russia poses a direct threat to the safety and welfare of LGBT Russians, and that threat is growing.
The consequences of this law for all Russian society are difficult to overestimate, said Maria Kozlovskaya, Program Manager for the advocacy group Russian LGBT Network. Our public polls suggest that the level of violence against LGBT people has increased significantly, and that members of the community feel vulnerable and targeted.
http://www.hrc.org/blog/entry/putins-anti-lgbt-law-turns-one
RKP5637
(67,108 posts)gone by, he would be just like IMO the other chilling leaders of Russia's past. In short, Putin is gross, and those pictures of him half naked and flabby, again gross, just a gross individual IMO.
Rex
(65,616 posts)The only difference is today's tyrant is more controlling of social media then in the past. So he can create a warmer and fuzzier image of himself, while remaining a brutal dictator.
RKP5637
(67,108 posts)idiot we had to endure.
Rex
(65,616 posts)Honestly, how we survived the Bush era is a miracle. Bush just reinforced what I felt about him at the time, he would be just as happy being a fellow dictator like Putin.
Both men are sociopaths.
William769
(55,147 posts)theHandpuppet
(19,964 posts)They actually see Russia's persecution of LGBTs as something positive.
William769
(55,147 posts)Go figure.
Cha
(297,240 posts)theHandpuppet
(19,964 posts)Since he found his daddy's religion he's just a deranged asshole.
Cha
(297,240 posts)RKP5637
(67,108 posts)and more I become amazed at just how many deranged people the US has. LGBT is an easy target for them, much as people of color and others. They just have to have something to hate and torment.
Cha
(297,240 posts)were in charge. And, yet we have posters here who are members of the "putinrocks.com" club. It's disgusting. He needs to be shamed not cheered.
mahalo for posting the human rights campaign news that putin's law is a year old already.
And thanks for the support you show for human decency. To any sane person, it's a no brainer.
Cha
(297,240 posts)post to let us know what's going on with our LGBT Friends across the World.
William769
(55,147 posts)Cha
(297,240 posts)When it comes to equality we have to be and there are many wonderful allies that help make it so.
Cha
(297,240 posts)RKP5637
(67,108 posts)barbarianism.
Cha
(297,240 posts)stevenleser
(32,886 posts)Ёб Твою Мать
William769
(55,147 posts)stevenleser
(32,886 posts)greatauntoftriplets
(175,735 posts)William769
(55,147 posts)Zorra
(27,670 posts)pampango
(24,692 posts)in time to a time during which their social group their power and cultural hegemony was unquestioned.
As it pertains to our tea partiers, a 'reactionary conservative':
http://www.salon.com/2014/06/25/tea_partys_scary_new_rise_inside_the_movements_terrifying_revitalization/
Of course, in the Russian version racism is not as key as with American tea partiers. For Putin it is ethnicity and what language you speak that the important differences that determine whether you are one of 'us' or one of 'them'.