INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
They forced me to castrate a pig because I wanted to have gender-affirming surgery
staff threatened her to conform to the program by describing the prosecution of prominent transgender activist Yan Dvorkin for spreading
representative of a dangerous, longer-term shift in attitudes and approaches to sexuality and gender identity in Russia today
guise of protecting children
sustained spike in violent hate crimes against LGBTQ+ people following the 2013 law.To be categorized as a hate crime, an incident has to
include both a base crime (such as murder) and a biased motive
2013, there was a threefold increase in the level of hate crimes
to how somebody looks [or] dresses
increasing number of premeditated, organized, often collective crimes, [which] are more serious
study represent only a fraction of incidents of LGBTQ+ specific hate crimes
demonstrator looks out of a police vehicle after being detained during an unauthorized rally staged by gay activists.Mitya Aleshkovsky /
TASSThe difficulty in measuring this violence is exacerbated by a very low reporting rate, which the Russian LGBT Network rights group
suggested was just 9.7% in its 2021 discrimination report.Dilya Gafurova, the director of the LGBTQ+ support and discrimination-monitoring
charity Sphere, told The Moscow Times that the vague wording of the anti-propaganda laws and violent rhetoric have created a breeding ground
instigates an atmosphere of fear around the topic of sexual orientation and gender identity, which breeds ignorance, and that results in
However, Gafurova said that 2022 saw requests for help coming from remote Russian towns and cities that the charity had never previously
It was possible to meet and discuss personal issues, in the open, at university
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