Hate crimes against LGBT people in Russia have doubled since the country instituted a law banning “gay propaganda,” researchers told Reuters on Tuesday. The banning resulted in an increase of sentences for crimes against LGBT people from 18 in 2010 to 65 in 2015, according to St. Petersburg
Jun 20, 2017 · LONDON — Russia’s prohibition of what it considers the promotion of homosexuality is discriminatory and violates freedom of expression, Europe’s top human rights court ruled on Tuesday, in a strong rejection of laws that rights groups say have been routinely used as cover for and
May 22, 2018 · Police in Chechnya, a region in southern Russia, are rounding up men believed to be gay, holding them in secret detention, and beating and humiliating them.
A police officer watches gay rights activists gather near the Duma before the new law was passed. Photograph: Ivan Sekretarev/AP Russia’s parliament has unanimously passed a federal law banning gay “propaganda” amid a Kremlin push to enshrine deeply conservative values that critics say has already
If the media can pressure lawmakers into passing gun control, just as it was with gay marriage, the goal is to strip us of our civil rights.
Mar 19, 2018 · A Free Press For A Free People Since 1997. Hollywood has done it again! Opening in theaters nationwide is the PG-13 gay romantic comedy, “Love, Simon.”
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights in the United States vary by jurisdiction.Since June 26, 2003, sexual activity between consenting adults of the same sex as well as same-sex cents of a close age has been legal nationwide, pursuant to the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Lawrence v.
Updated April 16, 2018 Gay sex is no longer as widely criminalized as it used to be, but a total of 74 nations still have laws against it. The total number of nations with laws against same-sex intimacy fell to 74 on April 12, 2018, when Triniman’s High Court overturned that country’s sodomy law (pending […]
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