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News and commentary about the anti-gay lobbyNovember 23rd, 2011
Two Russian regions have already passed laws prohibiting all forms of LGBT advocacy, and now the city governments of St. Petersburg and Moscow are considering similar measures.
Earlier this year, Ryazan and Arkhangelsk oblasts passed laws banning what they call “gay propaganda,” which include public speech and advocacy on behalf of gay and transgender people. The St. Petersburg proposal includes a fine of up to $1,600 for organizations engaging in “public actions aimed at propaganda of pederasty, lesbianism, bisexuality, and transgenderism among minors.” The fine for individuals would be about $100.The bill doesn’t define what constitutes “public actions,” leaving LGBT advocates concerned that the law would be yet another tool for police to use to crack down on gay pride events. The bill has a separate but identical provision banning advocacy for pedophilia, thus equating it with homosexuality in the public debate. The bill, which is backed by the ruling United Russia party, passed the first of three required readings last week with a 27-1 vote, with one abstention.
Shortly after the bill passed its first reading in St. Petersburg, a Moscow-based newspaper reports that a similar bill is in the works in the Moscow Duma. There is also talk that Russian state legislators may take up similar measures. One delegate says the proposal however would not go far enough:
If this [law against gay propaganda] is meant for our state’s security, this is all good. Only the people who break that law should not be fined;instead, they need to receive punishment under the criminal code”, said deputy Ekaterina Lahova.
Russia decriminalized homosexuality in 1993 under President Boris Yeltsin.
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Timothy (TRiG)
November 23rd, 2011
This sort of stuff is blatantly illegal under the European Convention on Human Rights, to which Russia is a signatory.
TRiG.
Darina
November 23rd, 2011
Please sign the All Out petition against the St Petersburg bill:
http://www.allout.org/en/actions/russia_silenced
paul canning
November 23rd, 2011
Here’s the St Petersberg law https://docs.google.com/open?id=1t6I2LC8jm89qtUSm7GDV0k6CJM7o039cnWX0JVkZWbv-mdj5laIF9JSM1MUv
Darina
November 23rd, 2011
Ah, thank you, Paul, that translation will come in handy for my English-speaking friends.
And here is the Russian original, justin case anybody other than me here understands Russian (one never knows): http://kvir.ru/gay_ru/9405.pdf
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