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A pro-LGBT rights "Rainbow flash mob" that took place on International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia in Saint Petersburg, 2009. The history of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people (LGBT) in Russia and its historical antecedents (the Soviet Union and the Russian Empire) has largely been influenced by the political leanings of ...
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) people in Russia face severe legal and social challenges not experienced by non-LGBTQ residents. [4] [5] Although sexual activity between consenting adults of the same sex is legal, [1] homosexuality is disapproved of by most of the population and pro-LGBTQ advocacy groups are deemed "extremist" and banned.
Moscow International LGBT Pride Festival was first celebrated in 2006 and was the subject of the documentary Moscow Gay Pride '06.. Although life in modern Russia allows many more liberties for gay men and lesbians than it did before the fall of communism, unofficial discrimination and fear are still rampant.
LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) rights, culture, people, and organisations in Russia Subcategories This category has the following 8 subcategories, out of 8 total.
The European Court of Human Rights dismissed the case without comment in June 2008. Murzin was not only criticized by conservatives and religious leaders, but also by LGBT activists who questioned the timing of the litigation, noting that Russia had no anti-discrimination laws at the time. [92] [93]
Following the issuance of the report, the United Nations urged all countries which had not yet done so to enact laws protecting basic LGBT rights. [15] [16] A 2022 study found that LGBT rights (as measured by ILGA-Europe's Rainbow Index) were correlated with less HIV/AIDS incidence among gay and bisexual men independently of risky sexual ...
Petr Alexandrovich Voskresensky-Stekanov (also spelled Pyotr, Peter and Voskresenskii, Voskresenski, Russian: Пётр Александрович Воскресенский-Стеканов; born 18 June 1985) is a Russian and German human rights and LGBTQ activist, researcher of LGBTQ history, and doctor.
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