Russia has a law banning so-called LGBT propaganda, which is understood as any favorable statements about the LGBT community.
On Friday, November 17, President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin suddenly recognized the right of representatives of the LGBT community to be part of society. This happened on the same day when the Russian Ministry of Justice appealed to the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation with a demand to recognize the “international public LGBT movement” as extremist.
According to Russian propagandists, the owner of the Kremlin made a statement about sexual minorities in a speech at the St. Petersburg International Cultural Forum.
Putin shared with those present his vision of victories “at various competitions in Western countries”, at which, as he believes, “in order to win something, you need to either tell, write, or show the life of sexual minorities, transgender people and transformers – many different names.” .
“I’ll say something unexpected: they too, these topics and these people have the right to win, show, tell. Because this is also part of society, what people live by,” the Russian president agreed, but immediately added that “It’s bad if only they win all sorts of competitions.”
It should be noted that in Russia there is a law prohibiting so-called LGBT propaganda, which is understood as any approving statements about the LGBT community. Any other citizen who allowed himself to make such statements could be fined up to 200 thousand rubles as a private person and up to 400 thousand as an official.
By coincidence, Putin’s recognition of the LGBT community as part of society coincided with the demand of the Russian Ministry of Justice to ban the “international public movement of LGBTQ+” for “extremism.” A hearing on this matter is scheduled for November 30 in the Supreme Court of Russia.
Let us recall that in the spring of 2023, two popular bloggers were detained in Russia on charges of violating the law prohibiting the “propaganda” of LGBT relationships. Chinese citizen Haoyang Sui and ethnic Georgian and Russian citizen Gela Gogishvili openly documented their lives as a gay, interracial couple living in Russia on their social media channels.
Related topics:
More news
