OscailtRussia’s Anti-Gay Laws: The Politics and Consequences of a Moral PanicCai Wilkinson on recent LGBTQ developments in Russia. Her geographic focus is on the former Soviet Union, and she is currently working on projects about LGBT rights and human rights norms in Kyrgyzstan and Russia.
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The issue of LGBT rights in Russia first properly came to mainstream international attention in March 2012, when the St Petersburg Duma passed a law prohibiting “public acts aimed at the propaganda of sodomy, lesbianism, bisexualism and transgenderism amongst minors“. The law provoked an international outcry, including calls for tourists to boycott St Petersburg, sister-cities to consider cut off ties with Russia’s “window on Europe”, and condemnation from the EU, with the European Parliament passing a resolution noting that it was “gravely concerned by developments which restrict freedom of expression and assembly on the basis of misconceptions about homosexuality and transgenderism” and calling on Russia and other countries considering the adoption of similar legislation to “demonstrate, and ensure respect for, the principle of non-discrimination”.
Breaking news: Italian MP, Sgarbi denounces the Statistical Fraud on COVID-19. The speech of the Member of Parliament Vittorio Sgarbi in the session of the Italian Camera, Meeting no. 331 of Friday 24, April, 2020. Vittorio Sgarbi, denounces the closure of 60% of the businesses for 25,000 COVID-19 Deaths, of which the National Institute of Health says 96.3% died NOT of COVID-19 but of other pathologies. That means only 925 have died of the virus. 24,075 have died of other things.2013-06-23T22:35:59+00:00Indymedia Irelandimc-ireland@lists.indymedia.iehttp://www.indymedia.ie/atomfullposts?story_id=103807http://www.indymedia.ie/graphics/feedlogo.gifrussia sucks but Saudi Arabia needs to be sorted out firsthttp://www.indymedia.ie/article/103807#comment2963512013-06-23T22:35:59+00:00sexpropagandaThey hang gay people in Saudi Arabia. Where is your article on that place?
Is i...They hang gay people in Saudi Arabia. Where is your article on that place? <br />
Is it only the enemies of the US who receive the wrath of the gay community for their backward ways?Wheres your article about SA?http://www.indymedia.ie/article/103807#comment2963542013-06-24T00:04:40+00:00TDoTThis essay is about Russia. Do you support repression of gays? Or just in Russia...This essay is about Russia. Do you support repression of gays? Or just in Russia?<br />
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Did you bother to even have a look at the blog? Its supports Bradley Manning.they need a david norris equivalent in russiahttp://www.indymedia.ie/article/103807#comment2966682013-07-16T16:55:38+00:00CiaraDavid norris decriminalised homosexuality in 1988,and until they get a member of...David norris decriminalised homosexuality in 1988,and until they get a member of the gay community in politics nothing will change..