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Added on: 09/13/2024

Russian Streaming Website Kinopoisk Fined $110K for ‘LGBT Propaganda’

09/12/2024

A Moscow court fined the popular Russian movie streaming website Kinopoisk 10 million rubles ($110,000) on Tuesday for charges related to “propaganda” of LGBTQ+ lifestyles and pedophilia. The…

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Added on: 09/07/2024

Russia bans piracy websites from streaming Brokeback Mountain over ‘gay propaganda’

09/06/2024

Russia has blocked the streaming of Brokeback Mountain, a 2005 American film exploring a love affair between two men, from three piracy websites, Roskomsvoboda, a Russian nonprofit…

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Added on: 08/30/2024

Among other things, Georgia follows in Moscow’s footsteps on LGBT+ rights

08/29/2024

Georgia’s path to European Union membership seems to be going downhill: the country’s aspirations to finally free itself from Russian influence, and anchor itself to the West,…

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Added on: 08/15/2024

Ukraine’s Other Revolution: Embracing the Rights Russia Would Deny

08/14/2024

Putin’s Russia has become the poster child in the fight against the global LGBTQ movement, labeling any activists “extremists” and criminalizing any associated activities within its borders….

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Added on: 08/09/2024

Bulgaria’s parliament bans LGBT “propaganda” in schools

08/08/2024

The Bulgarian parliament banned on August 7 what it called propaganda of “untraditional sexual orientation” at schools by adopting amendments to the law on pre-school and school…

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Added on: 08/08/2024

Diplomatic punches thrown at UN over Olympic women’s boxing

08/07/2024

UNITED NATIONS, Aug 7 (Reuters) – Russia and Algeria threw diplomatic punches at the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday after Russia brought up an Olympic boxing gender row during…

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Added on: 08/08/2024

Russian influence in eastern Europe is aggravating HIV epidemic, say experts

08/07/2024

Growing Russian influence in eastern Europe is driving a worsening HIV epidemic, health leaders have warned. In eastern Europe and central Asia, new diagnoses of HIV have risen 20%…

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Added on: 08/07/2024

Russia’s New Queer Purge

08/06/2024

In March, a little-known volunteer organization dedicated to “reviving the religious and secular unity of the Russian people” escorted agents from the Internal Affairs Ministry and the…

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Added on: 08/02/2024

Both Russia and homophobia are in the crosshairs of Ukraine’s gay soldiers

08/01/2024

One corner of Kyiv’s symbolic central square is now carpeted in thousands of tiny blue and yellow flags, in tribute to Ukraine’s fallen soldiers. Earlier this month,…

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Added on: 07/28/2024

Tricked into conversion therapy in Russia for being trans

07/27/2024

On a remote farm in Siberia, a man handed Ada a knife. In front of them was a pig. “Cut it off,” he said. “If you want…

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Added on: 07/12/2024

Burkina Faso’s military junta to ban homosexual acts

07/11/2024

Burkina Faso’s military junta has announced a ban on homosexual acts, making it the latest African state to crack down on same-sex relations despite strong opposition from…

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Added on: 07/03/2024

Gay man arrested in Dagestan says police offered him money to entrap other men

07/02/2024

A gay man who was briefly arrested in the Russian North Caucasus republic of Dagestan in June has described how he was offered money to help the…

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Added on: 06/27/2024

Russia’s first transgender politician reveals she was forced to announce her detransition

06/26/2024

The first openly transgender politician in Russia has described how the Russian authorities threatened to commit her to a psychiatric hospital unless she detransitioned, Novaya Gazeta Baltic…

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Added on: 06/07/2024

Russian adult content provider forced to entrap gay men online by Dagestan police

06/06/2024

A Russian male adult content provider was detained in the North Caucasus republic of Dagestan for the second time in two weeks on Wednesday after reportedly being…

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Added on: 06/06/2024

Duolingo deletes LGBT references in Russia after warning from Moscow

06/05/2024

June 5 (Reuters) – Language learning app Duolingo (DUOL.O), opens new tab has deleted references in Russia to what Moscow calls “non-traditional sexual relations” after being warned by…

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Added on: 05/30/2024

Head of Russian LGBT group detained for leading an ‘extremist organisation’

05/29/2024

Police have raided the home of an LGBT activist in the city of Samara in Russia’s Volga region after opening a case into his involvement with an…

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Added on: 05/17/2024

Transgender Russian politician says he has detransitioned

05/16/2024

LONDON, May 16 (Reuters) – A transgender politician from Russia said on Thursday that he had reverted to his gender assigned at birth, in an unusual message…

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Added on: 05/10/2024

Notorious homophobe faces misdemeanour charge for discrediting Russian military

05/09/2024

The authorities in Moscow are considering a misdemeanour charge against a self-described “gay basher” and “defender of traditional values” for discrediting the Russian army, news outlet Ostorozhno…

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Added on: 05/09/2024

Russian who made career of informing on others is charged himself

05/08/2024

Timur Bulatov, a Russian activist who has boasted about denouncing LGBT people and Kremlin critics to the authorities, is now in the line of fire himself, charged…

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Added on: 05/04/2024

Russian publisher redacts book on gay Italian director amid LGBT crackdown

05/03/2024

Roberto Carnero, an Italian literature professor at the University of Bologna, was shocked when he received a call from his Italian publisher in March about the Russian…

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Added on: 05/03/2024

Moscow university student sentenced to 15 days in jail for ‘displaying LGBT symbols’

05/02/2024

A Russian university student has been sentenced to 15 days in jail for “displaying LGBT symbols”, the Moscow court press service reported Friday. Danila Morozov, 22, was also…

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Added on: 04/28/2024

Russia seeks to ban non-existent ‘anti-Russian separatist movement’

04/27/2024

The Russian Justice Ministry is looking to ban the “anti-Russian separatist movement” as an extremist organisation, it announced Friday. The movement’s goal is to “destroy Russia’s multinational…

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Added on: 04/27/2024

A trans man facing persecution in Russia heard of ‘trans refuge’ state and fled to Minnesota

04/26/2024

Erik Beda’s mere existence is practically a death sentence in Russia. He’s transgender, which is illegal and considered an act of terror in the country. “There is…

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Added on: 04/18/2024

Russia-style NGO crackdowns spread as Europe dithers

04/17/2024

Georgia’s ruling party plans to reintroduce highly controversial Russia-style “foreign agent” legislation aimed at incapacitating civil society and independent media. If adopted, the laws, which were withdrawn last…

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Added on: 04/01/2024

Lesbian Power Couple: Top Sniper and Machine-Gunner Are Taking on Putin’s Army

10/31/2024

“If I tell you the number of my confirmed kills, I’m putting a bounty on my head,” Olga, tells me with a grin and a twinkle in…

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Added on: 03/30/2024

FOR TRANS MIGRANTS FORCED TO FLEE THEIR HOMES, THE VIOLENCE CONTINUES AT OUR BORDER

03/29/2024

A few months ago in Tijuana, Mexico, our Director of Research and Analysis for Refugee Protection Christina Asenico met two couples from Russia – three of the…

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Added on: 03/29/2024

Shuttered Siberian Queer Bar Fined for ‘LGBT Propaganda’

03/28/2024

A queer bar in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk has been fined for “LGBT propaganda,” local police said Thursday, a month after the bar announced its closure over…

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Added on: 03/26/2024

This is the full, shocking story of the decade-long destruction of LGBTQ+ rights in Putin’s Russia

03/25/2024

On March 22 2024, Russia’s financial watchdog added the “LGBT movement” to its “terrorists and extremists” blacklist, the most recent move in a crackdown on LGBTQ+ rights…

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Added on: 03/22/2024

Two bar workers in Russia become first people charged under anti-LGBTQ+ law

03/21/2024

A Russian court has ordered two bar workers to be placed in custody, accusing them of roles in an “extremist organisation”, under new legislation criminalising the LGBTQ+…

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Added on: 03/19/2024

Russia Opens First Criminal Case Into ‘LGBT Extremism,’ Says Mizulina

03/18/2024

Russian authorities have launched the country’s first-ever criminal case into “LGBT extremism,” the head of the Kremlin-aligned Safe Internet League Yekaterina Mizulina said Monday, just months after…