This Friday, the Russian Ministry of Justice sent a proposal to the Supreme Court regarding the following classification: extremist what he defines as “International Civil LGBT Movement“, something that would legally place it on the same level as the Islamic State and Al Qaeda, as well as neo-Nazi groups and other extremist organisations. This label would make it illegal show any symbol related to the community LGTBI public or show support low prison sentences and fines.
Although there is no official “International LGTB Civil Movement” at the global level, Russian officials feel it is necessary to put an end to it because, from their perspective, the entity in question “encourages the current situation.” social hatred and the relationship between religions”, something that would violate Russia’s anti-extremism law. The final decision of the Russian Supreme Court will not be known until the next date 30 November. A representative from the Ministry argued that the rights of gays and lesbians in Russia are protected by law and that the purpose is only to “limit their rights”. propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations“.
regression
Although Russia decriminalization of homosexuality In 1993, we stopped evaluating the issue from a legal perspective. Mental illness in 1999has taken backward steps regarding the rights of LGBT individuals in recent years. This course has been flagged Vladimir PutinChoosing to restrict and promote the group’s rights with the support of the Russian Orthodox Church”traditional family“, something he mentioned many times in conversations He said that he did not want to have “father 1 and father 2” here in Russia, as he did to commemorate the annexation of the occupied Ukrainian regions Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson.
One of the most recent changes was the so-called “against homosexual propaganda” law; From the end of 2022, this law begins to apply to all Russians, and not only to minors, as the law was approved in 2013. book, comic, commercial or movie A film in which homosexuality is exhibited, even if it is not openly. This has forced many publishers to ask writers to change sentences or alter entire chapters to remove such references.
In another new initiative in July of the same year, Russia banned gender reassignment by law; The Speaker of the Parliament stated that this was done “to protect Russian children” and gender change as “the corruption of the nation”. It was also prohibited for those who had already undergone gender reassignment to adopt children and for marriage between two people if at least one of them had their gender reassigned.