news Russia to declare LGBTQ+ as "extremist movement"

[bestfiction]

https://apnews.com/article/russia-lgbtq-crackdown-4f043baf6e1d8999965b815dc5cc7315

 

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MOSCOW (AP) — The Russian Justice Ministry on Friday said it has filed a lawsuit with the nation’s Supreme Court to outlaw the LGBTQ+ “international public movement” as extremist, the latest crippling blow against the already beleaguered LGBTQ+ community in the increasingly conservative country.

The ministry said in an online statement announcing the lawsuit that authorities have identified “signs and manifestations of extremist nature” in “the activities of the LGBT movement active” in Russia, including “incitement of social and religious discord.” Russia’s Supreme Court has scheduled a hearing to consider the lawsuit for Nov. 30, the ministry said.

It wasn’t immediately clear what exactly the label would entail for LGBTQ+ people in Russia if the Supreme Court sides with the Justice Ministry. But the move in itself represents the latest, and by far the most drastic, step in the decade-long crackdown on gay rights in Russia unleashed under President Vladimir Putin, who has put “traditional family values” at the cornerstone of his rule.

 

Edited November 17, 2023 by bestfiction

[mellenthin]

I'm assuming that means legal in Russian terms? 

Edited November 17, 2023 by mellenthin

[magazine]

It was about time russians assumed they are lgbtq+

[Bloodflowers.]

Does that make t.A.T.u. a radical girl group?

[Mordecai]

So who are they suing exactly? 

 

What happened to those rumours that Putin was ill and about to croak? Or was that misinformation about the war

[fa77ot]

let me stream best russian album

 

 

 

[illia]

2 minutes ago, Mordecai said:

What happened to those rumours that Putin was ill and about to croak? Or was that misinformation about the war

These rumors come up every two business weeks

Even if he really dies, we'd probably not know about it for a while anyway

[truthteller]

can the kremlin basement just collapse already

[réveuse]

This is extremely awful.

[Skyesey]

8 minutes ago, Bloodflowers. said:

Does that make t.A.T.u. a radical girl group?

now one of the members is a Putinist, so the t.a.t.u you know is long gone.

[Illuminati]

9 minutes ago, Bloodflowers. said:

Does that make t.A.T.u. a radical girl group?

They're straight and homophobic and the girls kissing for straight men gimmick was from like two decades ago so no

[woohoo]

Putin’s Russia, and soon to be Trumps America 

[KOMH]

A dictatorship. 

[jesus del rey]

They found out ATRL

[Johnny Jacobs]

39 minutes ago, Bloodflowers. said:

Does that make t.A.T.u. a radical girl group?

How? One of them is a devoted homophobe 

[Delirious]

43 minutes ago, Flomik said:

These rumors come up every two business weeks

Even if he really dies, we'd probably not know about it for a while anyway

 

47 minutes ago, Mordecai said:

So who are they suing exactly? 

 

What happened to those rumours that Putin was ill and about to croak? Or was that misinformation about the war

dont they always have like the doppelganger/clones?

[bestfiction]

47 minutes ago, Mordecai said:

So who are they suing exactly? 

No one in particular, they are just set out on making the life of queer people in Russia living hell 

[Anthinos]

It's sad that people don't take this more serious. This is very dangerous and could influence right wing movements in Europe to do the same. People need to take the rise of the far right and homophobia more serious. You Americans must stop Trump or else this is going to become our reality in the west, too.

Edited November 17, 2023 by Anthinos

[Outlaws]

[alexrex]

So inciting war, censorship, corruption, poisoning journalists, being bald and ugly like Putin aligns with family values in Russia. 

 

But when it comes to the right of living your life, minding your business.mp3 and being with whoever you want to be is a crime and an extreme point of view. 

 

Well, this doesn't make any sense. What a f*cked up point of view from an idiot with power. 

Edited November 17, 2023 by alexrex

[illia]

21 minutes ago, Delirious said:

 

dont they always have like the doppelganger/clones?

Yes and there's a huge number of theories in Russia about this but that's only conspiracy

 

Spoiler

 

[Revolution]

The extremists are not the LGBT. The extremists are the poker-faced bullies who hate on others in the name of family values. 

[Blue Monday]

27 minutes ago, Anthinos said:

It's sad that people don't take this more serious. This is very dangerous and could influence right wing movements in Europe to do the same. People need to take the rise of the far right and homophobia more serious. You Americans must stop Trump or else this is going to become our reality in the west, too.

This. I get the instinct to laugh it off as a way of coping because it really is ridiculous when you dress it down, but we're past the point where this can be waved away as "delusional." This stuff is really gaining steam in right wing circles, and those podcast incel types are probably going to take Russia doing this and RUN with it as they try and spread it themselves. We already know that sitting US senators have flirted with the idea of trying to take down the same sex marriage precedent set by SCOTUS, and now that they've done away with Roe... 

[St. Charles]

I think people who support the Russian gov’t are fascists or at the very least fascism enablers. No more apologism.

[Pendulum]

QUICK everybody stream Malchik Gey (Gay Boy) by the legendary t.A.T.u.

 

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