January 18, 2025
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HRC calls for full transparency about ongoing investigations into Trump campaign ties to Russia

Steve Lee, Editor04 mins

WASHINGTON — Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) called for full transparency about ongoing investigations into the Donald Trump campaign ties to Russia. Several media reports offer conflicting information about potential connections between Trump and the Russian government, which has a history of anti-LGBTQ extremism. In 2013, Putin signed the internationally condemned and draconian anti-LGBT propaganda…

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Russia rejects bill that would have criminalized coming out

Steve Lee, Editor01 mins

According to the RBC News Agency, the Russian Duma’s Committee on Constitutional Legislation and State Building has rejected a bill which would have made coming out to young people and same-sex couples kissing in public punishable with jail sentences. The bill, introduced by Ivan Nikitchuk, a Communist party MP, would have punished people with a 5,000 ruble…

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Russian lawmakers considering making ‘gay propaganda’ law even tougher

Steve Lee, Editor02 mins

Conservative lawmakers in Russia are considering making the nationwide ban on gay propaganda even more punitive by adding additional fines and jail time to the law for those who dare to come out in public. The Advocate reports that the new bill is being drafted as an amendment to Russia’s infamous ban on “propaganda of…

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WATCH: Putin denies that Russia discriminates against gays and lesbians

Steve Lee, Editor02 mins

View More: Overtime Original News|Live News|More News Videos Following the announcement by the Kremlin that Vladimir Putin would meet with singer Sir Elton John, to discuss any issue including LGBT rights the Russian president held an interview with 60 Minutes yesterday. The Advocate reported that Putin told CBS News anchor Charlie Rose said he didn’t…

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Russia cancels LGBT film festival

Steve Lee, Editor01 mins

Russia’s long running avant-garde film festival, Moscow Premiere, a champion of Russian LGBT and anti-fascist cinema, was cancelled last week and replaced by a “positive, youth-orientated” alternative, reports Dazed. The new festival is being run by Yevgeny Gerasimov, a high-ranking member of Putin’s Kremlin. The organizer of Moscow Premiere said that there was no way he could work with Gerasimov….

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Russian film festival to screen gay-themed movie, ‘I Am Michael’

Steve Lee, Editor02 mins

The AmFest Film Festival in Russia, which runs Sept. 16-27 in Moscow and St. Petersburg, has added the gay-themed drama I Am Michael to its lineup. The U.S. Embassy in Russia is a main sponsor of the festival, which highlights new American independent cinema. According to a report in The Hollywood Reporter, in light of…

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Watch: Reaction to gay couple holding hands — this time in Portugal

Steve Lee, Editor01 mins

After two social experiment videos from Russia and the Ukraine, where a gay couple walking in the streets was insulted and attacked, two Portuguese men decided to conduct the same experiment in their capital city Lisbon. The pair, Lorenzo and Pedro, said, “The result [in Moscow and Kiev] was primitive, sad and disgusting. It was…

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Russia ranks near last in ILGA’s annual Rainbow Map

Steve Lee, Editor15 mins

May 10, the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA-Europe) released its 2015 Rainbow Map, an annual review of the human rights situation of LGBT people in Europe and brand new Rainbow Europe web module. Launched in Montenegro, at the 2015 European International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia (IDAHOT) Forum, the Rainbow…

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