Source: www.hrw.org - Tuesday, October 30, 2018
Expand Interior Ministry officers guard the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) community rally "VIII St.Petersburg Pride" in St. Petersburg, Russia August 12, 2017. © 2017 Reuters A court in Russia has dismissed a case brought against a 16-year-old boy alleging he had broken the country’s absurd and noxious “gay propaganda†law. The 2013 law effectively prohibits any positive information about “non-traditional sexual relations†from public discussion. In August 2018, Russia’s Commission on Minors and the Protection of Minors’ Rights fined Maxim Neverov 50,000 rubles (US$760) for violating the “gay propaganda†law . The commission stated that Neverov had posted “some photographs of young men whose appearance (partly nude body parts) had the characteristics of propaganda of homosexual relations...†on his Vkontake – a Russian social media site – account. Neverov was the first minor to be fined under the law, and immediately filed an appeal against the ruling. The purported rationale behind Russia’s “gay propaganda†ban is that portraying same-sex relations as socially acceptable threatens the intellectual, moral, and mental well-being of children. While supporters of the law claim it protects children, to the contrary the ban directly harms them by denying access to essential information and perpetuating stigma against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) children and family m
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Expand Interior Ministry officers guard the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) community rally "VIII St.Petersburg Pride" in St. Petersburg, Russia August 12, 2017. © 2017 Reuters A court in Russia has dismissed a case brought against a 16-year-old boy alleging he had broken the country’s absurd and noxious “gay propaganda†law. The 2013 law effectively prohibits any positive information about “non-traditional sexual relations†from public discussion. In August 2018, Russia’s Commission on Minors and the Protection of Minors’ Rights fined Maxim Neverov 50,000 rubles (US$760) for violating the “gay propaganda†law . The commission stated that Neverov had posted “some photographs of young men whose appearance (partly nude body parts) had the characteristics of propaganda of homosexual relations...†on his Vkontake – a Russian social media site – account. Neverov was the first minor to be fined under the law, and immediately filed an appeal against the ruling. The purported rationale behind Russia’s “gay propaganda†ban is that portraying same-sex relations as socially acceptable threatens the intellectual, moral, and mental well-being of children. While supporters of the law claim it protects children, to the contrary the ban directly harms them by denying access to essential information and perpetuating stigma against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) children and family m
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