The Russian Justice Ministry announced on Friday that it has filed a complaint with the country’s Supreme Court to declare the LGBTQ+ “international public action” to be an extremist. This is the latest crippling punch to the already oppressed LGBT+ group in the increasingly liberal nation.TALLINN, Estonia ( AP )
Authorities have found” signs and manifestations of radical nature” in” the activities of the LGBT action effective,” including “incitement of social and religious discord,” according to the government in an online statement announcing the lawsuit. According to the government, the Supreme Court of Russia will hear the case on November 30.
If the Supreme Court sided with the Justice Ministry, it is still unclear exactly what the brand would mean for LGBTQ+ individuals in Russia, and the government did not respond right away to a reply request. However, the action in and of itself represents the most recent—and perhaps the harshest—step in the ten-year assault on queer rights in Russia that President Vladimir Putin, who has made” traditional family values” the basis of his law, has launched.
LGBTQ+ right were gradually but surely eroded by the assault, which started ten years ago. The “gay advertising” law, which was passed by the Kremlin in 2013, restricts LGBTQ+ rights and forbids any non-critical people depiction of “nontraditional physical relations” among minors. Putin pushed through a constitutional amendment in 2020 to increase his law by two more words while also outlawing same-sex unions.
After sending troops into Ukraine in 2022, the Kremlin intensified its rhetoric about defending” standard values” from what it referred to as the West’s “degrading” impact in what rights activists perceived as an effort to justify the conflict in Ukraine. The government also passed a law that year that essentially outlawed any public support of LGBTQ+ people by promoting “nontraditional physical relations” among adults.
Another regulation that was passed this year forbade gender affirming care for trans people and female transitioning processes. The law forbade both female changes in official records and public information as well as any “medical interventions aimed at changing a person’s sex.” Additionally, it changed Russia’s Family Code by adding those” who had changed identity” to a list of people who are not eligible to be foster or adoptive parents and listing sex change as justification for annulment of relationship.
Do we really want Parent No. around in Russia, in our country? 1, No. No. 2. 3 rather of “mom” and “dad”? At a meeting to formally annex four Russian areas by Moscow in September 2022, Putin stated. ” Do we really want to impose proclivities that cause death and decay in our schools starting in the first grades?”
Officials have disproved claims that LGBTQ+ people are discriminated against. The deputy justice minister, Andrei Loginov, was quoted by Russian media earlier this year as saying that” the privileges of LGBT people in Russia are protected” legally. In Geneva, Loginov made the case that “restraining public show of non-traditional intimate relationships or interests is not a form of condemnation for them” while presenting the U.N. Human Rights Council with his report on individual rights in Russia.
Putin said LGBTQ+ people are “part of the community, to” and that they are entitled to win several arts and culture awards while speaking at a culture-related occasion in St. Petersburg on Friday. Regarding the complaint brought by the Justice Ministry, he made no comment.
