by Beth Holmes | Mar 7, 2022 | Civil Rights, Equality, Gay and Lesbian, Homophobia, Human Rights, International, LGBT community, LGBTQIA+, News, Politics, Power LGBT, Queer Community, Religion, Sexuality, Transgender, Women's Rights
LGBT Ukrainians fight for a country that disdains them, because Russia is certainly worse. Ukraine decriminalized same-sex sexual activity in the 1990s and allows trans people over 25 to legally change their gender, allows LGBT people to serve in the military and...
by Beth Holmes | Apr 19, 2021 | Civil Rights, Equality, Gay and Lesbian, Gender, Homophobia, Human Rights, International, LGBT community, News, Politics, Power LGBT, Transgender
Back in July 2020, voters in anti-LGBT Russia passed a measure to amend the country’s constitution to redefine marriage and parenthood as a union between a “biological” man and woman. The measure passed with nearly 80 percent of voters in support, after years of...
by admin | Aug 15, 2018 | Civil Rights, Featured
On August 7th, Maxim Neverov, a 16-year-old student from Biysk, Russia, was summoned to the police station, where he was arrested and charged with violating Russia’s “gay propaganda” law. Neverov is reportedly the first minor to be charged since the...
by admin | Jul 11, 2018 | Featured
Russia’s anti-gay laws prohibit anything someone might deem “gay propaganda,” and specifically they include a ban on the rainbow flag, the symbol of the LGBT movement since it was designed in 1978 by Gilbert Baker and stitched together by 30...
by admin | Apr 14, 2017 | Featured, Homophobia, News
The Chechan Republic, a small republic inside Russia’s current borders near the Caspian Sea, is a deeply unstable region, having gone through two violent civil wars since the ’91 dissolution of the Soviet Union. As a result, the area is fairly opaque to...
