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MOSCOW – State media reported on Friday that Russia has officially categorized the “LGBT movement” as part of a list comprising extremist and terrorist organizations.
This decision aligns with a directive from Russia’s Supreme Court in November, which designated LGBT activists as extremists. Advocates for gay and transgender individuals expressed apprehension over potential repercussions, including arrests and prosecutions, following this ruling.
The compilation of extremist and terrorist organizations in Russia is overseen by the Rosfinmonitoring watchdog, which holds the authority to freeze bank accounts associated with these entities. The list encompasses over 14,000 individuals and organizations labeled as extremists and terrorists. Among those included are a wide array of groups, ranging from Al Qaeda to notable companies such as U.S. tech giant Meta and associates of the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny.
According to state news agency RIA, the updated listing specifically targets the “international LGBT social movement and its structural units.”
This move aligns with Vladimir Putin’s agenda, which emphasizes traditional family values as opposed to what is perceived as Western decadence. Over the past decade, Russia has implemented increasingly stringent regulations on the expression of sexual orientation and gender identity. These measures include legislation prohibiting the promotion of “non-traditional” sexual relationships and prohibiting legal or medical gender changes.
In the wake of Moscow’s war in Ukraine in February 2022, Russian authorities have intensified restrictions on civil liberties within the country.
In 2013, Russia prohibited what it termed “gay propaganda” among minors, extending the ban to adults in 2022. This legislation criminalizes the promotion of “non-traditional sexual relations” in public spaces and the media.
In the same year, Russia further restricted activities of what it terms “foreign agents,” facilitating state action against NGOs and websites receiving external support.
Additionally, last year saw Russia banning gender-affirming surgery, with Duma chairman Vyacheslav Volodin labeling gender reassignment as “a path to degeneration.”
Moreover, since the crackdown began, independent news outlets like Novaya Gazeta and Meduza have faced closure by authorities or have been forced into exile.
Here in the states and there, what else, is new?
Thats not happening in the majority of the US. Youre definetely exaggerating here
He likes being the victim so much that when there isn’t any reason to be one he makes stuff up.
It’s open for discussion; it’s just that I’m here, in Soflo, the south, as an “OG” of Minnesota. . . so, it may not seem that way, to you.
Like i said, thats very rare in the US today.
But not nonexistent, but rare, your words, so, I apparently, I’m not alone within the knowledge. I’m here where Desantis is governor, (Don’t say gay, removing black hist) just FYI for you.
Say what you like.
“The Community” meets the definition of and “extremist and terrorist organization.” In the US: Its views are Extremist: “The promotion or advancement of an ideology based on violence, hatred, or intolerance, that aims to negate or destroy the fundamental rights and freedoms of others. It acts for many people meet the definition of Terrorism: “Violent, criminal acts committed by individuals and/or groups to further ideological goals stemming from domestic influences, such as those of a political, religious, social, racial, or environmental nature.” The community has oppressively taken over schools and government entities. And has forced (criminally per many parents) sex… Read more »
Gee Hunter, you ARE a throw-back. How exactly do you think we have won the rights we have today? By being model homos and politely asking for them? Remember the AIDS epidemic? Remember the President who wouldn’t even acknowledge it? Remember ACT UP? For that matter, remember the march on Selma…?
Back then, “We” didn’t shove “us” up peoples’ asses 24/7. “We” asked for acceptance. Marched some in the streets. Worked to get acceptance for ALL (regardless of Race, Religion, Sexual Identity, Gender, etc.) accepted. “We” didn’t hijack schools and government entities, pissing off even those who support them. “We” DID bring the AIDS epidemic into our group by being gay .. and free … and liberated … and having sex with any guy who moved … LONG after science said “you really need to have safe sex.” But oh no … it was our right to bareback anyone we could.… Read more »
Along the way, for your edification, countless Gay guys politely asked for acceptance by just being good guys, good business owners, good friends, good family members without making their sexuality a line that everyone else HAD to step over. Politely asking for acceptance didn’t get us anywhere. Just ask the members of the various Mattachine Societies. We didn’t really get anywhere until after the Stonewall riots. Politely asking the FDA to, please, speed up approval of drugs that had potential to treat AIDS didn’t get anywhere, either. You sound like one of those people who insist that talking about one’s… Read more »
ACTUP did not accomplish anything except to embarrass the community with their childish behavior and demands. It was indeed the proper people who won respect and equality. ACTUP remains pure self-rewarding BS.
Remember –
“The Magna Carta”?
“Hammurabi’s Code”?
“The Ten Commandments”?
“The Edict Of Milano”?
“The Declaration Of Independence”?
Churchill’s Speech on “The Declaration Of War Upon The Germans”?
We shall fight him by land; we shall fight him by sea; we shall fight him in the air, until, with God’s help, we have rid the earth of his shadow and liberated its people from his yoke. Any man or State who fights against Nazism will have our aid. Any man or State who marches with Hitler is our foe.
He is correct, an im a gay male who also agrees. Our community has been hyjacked by extremist and radicals who have turned to intimidation and violence and target children and their parents. Thats what Isis does, thats what Taliban does, same thing. Flag and all. Just because its a bunch of drag queens doesnt matter. The violence is the same and is getting worse…for no reason but to keep political people in their jobs..SAME AS MUSLIM EXTEMISTS and even now Jewish extremists sadly.
Funny frank that of all the people in your “remember” speech you left out is FAUCHI. Who was the head of the snake when drugs where being held back due to Christian pressure. Why, I suspect cause you think Fauchi is some kind of hero who stood up to Trump. Fauchi is responsible for thousands of deaths back then. But our community is so brainwashed that automatically you leave out the biggest criminal of all.
If you’re going to attack him, the least you could do is spell his name correctly: Fauci.
The odd thing is, there is no “community.” There are just some organizations that presume to represent “the community,” when all they represent are their wealthy board members and donors. GLAAD does not represent “the community.” It is fraudulent of them to claim that they do. There was no election, no voting to put them in office, to validate their mandate. The only “mandate” in the community is a porn magazine of yore.
Father and Dan Alan:
Of course “The Community” exists!
When Michael Sam (NFL Football Player) announced he was Gay, President Clinton stood at a news conference in front of all the major US media outlets and congratulated him on “joining The Community.”
Presidents and the US media NEVER lie! Of course “The Community” exists!
Wait. President Obama, not President Clinton. Obama wouldn’t lie to us either.
I’m not sure if you’re being facetious or serious with your comment! But “the community,” which isn’t actually a real thing, does not pose any threat to anyone except those who think they’re the only one’s who deserve to exist!
Germany,
1934 –
with
the
“Rise Of Adolf Hitler” and “Nazi Eminence”.
History –
repeats itself –
but
Humanity –
neither listens
to
the “Cacophony”
nor
reads –
the
“Writings Upon The Wall”.
Humanity does indeed listen to the “Cacophony” but each time history “repeats itself” it seems that, just like a relay race, the baton of entitled ignorance and hatred has been handed off to the next group who will take their opportunity to treat a group of people like they were treated!!! And they, like the group that mistreated them, will rationalize why it isn’t the same as what was done to them! Because “they’re not racist/sexist/homophobic/whatever, it’s just that”…. The perfect example was Black people discriminating against LGBTQ and then L and G people discriminating against Trans people!!! Everyone hates… Read more »
Just remember –
You are a Human Being!
So much truth there.
I’ve said that many times, “those who have been dehumanized, go on to dehumanize.”
“Everybody, hates somebody even though we’re all more the same than not.”
This has been the biggest “trickle down,” I’ve seen-witnessed, all of my life.
“Monkeys see, monkeys do,” regardless, across the board; very few people have the ability, though, to see this great waste of energy and humanity.
I mean, what do you expect what you go on a never-ending ideological tirade in the name of gay people? You can thank all the activists.
Yeah, you can thank the activists for marriage equality, a woman’s right to decide, and civil rights, just to name three… . And as regards a “never-ending ideological tirade” I believe that is what certain right-wing religious zealots are currently doing, banning books, abridging basic liberties, cynically maintaining racism does not exist in America, and trying to shove THEIR narrow-minded agenda down our throats. . . But then, perhaps you prefer Mr. Putin’s model where all dissent is crushed ruthlessly and you just murder anyone who dares to oppose you…? Or the tactics of a ‘certain’ American political party who… Read more »
“Banning books”. Yes, banning sexually graphic books in elementary sxhools is a good thing.
Go back and do your homework, you dont know what youre typing.
No, they’re banning WAY more than that, you gotta know that man, they’re banning actual American history! They’re banning the truth, whitewashing history, etc., “way more than just sexually graphic books.” Speaking of; when I was a child in Minnesota back in the 60’s, I was in the library and came across a book with a “white” woman fucking a horse, needless to say; I was showing all the other kids the book. Well, later that afternoon the book along with others were removed by men wearing trench coats and ties. So, I agree, to a point, but like with… Read more »
False! The problem were talking about here is related to homosexuality, not different versions or editions of history already taught slightly different depending on if youre in a red or blue school district.
Different history book editions ans their turnover has been happening for decades. It didnt just start happening because of the lgbtq people, nor is it even related.
But where, oh, where does the banning end?
PREACH!!! Thumbs up!!!!
“…a woman’s right to decide…”
Yet the fetus who’s the topic of that right has no rights. The man who fathered the fetus with her also has no rights.
Something is one sided. Abortion shouldn’t be illegal. It sure should be more sensible.
The man’s investment in the pregnancy is a few sperm cells of which he produces millions. When his life is endangered by the pregnancy, then he gets a say.
says a gay guy that has no sperm in the game
If the pregnancy endangered the woman, legal abortion decided by her would be sensible. You’re short-sheeting many guys who don’t believe in abortion. And given a choice and the opportunity, would raise the child. There are men who are not just sperm donors, although they snuck one past the goalie. I know a young guy who “got his girlfriend pregnant”. He had no say and she aborted. He was devasted because he would have raised the child. I know another uber-great Straight guy who met a woman who soon found she was pregnant by a guy she’d just broken up… Read more »
I so disagree, “between the woman, and her doctor, not the gov.
They’d have not option without the gov saying it was legal or illegal.
I think I heard on the news, there pills they can now get through CVS.
Between woman and her doc? What about the life growing inside her?
There are plenty of adoption centers, abortion should only be used as a last resort.
You mean the fetus. And that’s just where these women are at; the “last resort” I can empathize. I can’t for the life of me; think that these hideous decisions to abort are arrived at, lightly, like people are making it out to be, politics, of course, it’s a human/health issue, not religious or political. It’s just so very sadistic, forcing a woman like that. Look at some of these cases where there’s incest, rape, maybe it will actually kill her to give birth, etc., it’s pretty fucking monstrously sadistic. I think there’s a real hate-despise of women, actually, among… Read more »
Doublepost
“Oh SHOCKING!” (…and yet, here we are with the distinct possibility that a Russian puppet might be (re)elected to the highest office in the land… As gay people, who think we have rights that we honestly won after years of long hard battles, we should perhaps ask American women how that ‘might’ turn out…)
When women start being equal, they’ll make more gains. Men don’t get any kind of passes for who they are; too many women expect to get passes.
Equality, tolerance and acceptance will only work when they each flow in two directions.
“Russian puppet”? There is no “russian puppet” running for american president. The russiagate thing was a hoax. Furthermore, the “orange-man” is the most peaceful president in decades. Compare his wars and kill counts to other presidents.
Youve been turned into a brainwashed mainstream media sucker
BACK AWAY FROM THE COOLAID!!!!
He capitulates, where Putin is concerned. NWO=TOTALITARIANISM= and lot more, that does not constitute who and what America is.
Coolaid???? How about you stop being a mainstream media disciple?
So the orange-man avoids having problems with Russia? Thats a good thing so long as russia isnt attacking the US.
Youve been misled into thinking we need to be constantly at odds with Russia.
Youve got the political mindset of a teenager. Politics is a field only for adults with balanced emotions and mature minds.
Oh, no you don’t, lmao, like hell. Since when has Russia not been our enemy, within our lifetimes, try again with that Jedi-mind trick shit!
We don’t live on our knees, here in the States!
Just as i said youve been misled into this childish “us vs. them” mentality. If the threat was really that so great we woukd have fought long ago …youve been misled by military industrial complex propaganda
COLD WAR DUMMY, COLD WAR, remember?!
You’re out of your fucking mind, dude, ever since I was a child in the 60’s, it was about Russia, get the fuck outta here with your stupid robotic, fascist lovin’ ass!
Are you aware the motherfuckers threatening nuclear fuckin’ war?! Why don’t you move there then, you and that orange sick fucker.
All the gay men now being victimized in Russia can thank all the activists for their dismal fate. Pushing too far, too fast or too wrongly causes nasty backlash. I can’t blame wanting to protect what is natural.
Sounds about right. Russian homos should seek asylum. End of story
What is “natural”?
A long time ago in a “natural” land far far away … there were men with penises and women with vaginas. He’s and she’s and everyone was with the program as how society would just him along. He’s would be he’s and she’s would be she’s. It was a simpler time that endured for centuries. That was what was “natural” until some decided changes needed to happen. Those changes made sense. But the some got all pushy, entitled, one-sided and arrogant so change has been slower than it could have been.
LMAO, homosexuality, has been since dawn, remember the Spartans? It has been said as a direct quote, “women are for making children, men are for love” but these were soldiers, they were the most fearsome, known throughout that world at that time. When the British got to Africa, they brought religion to a people that had been celebrating the phallic symbol; they were gay, you might say, “the first gay pride.” I was watching Travis Smiley, Isaia Washington, formerly of “Grey’s Anatomy.” He was fired from the set for calling someone a fagot, Shonda wasn’t havin’ it; she fired him.… Read more »
Exactly.
Gay, is natural, get the bible, out of your head.
Putin really is a paranoid man who thinks he is going to run the world. So any group promoting peoples rights and freedoms is wrong. The man needs to be locked in a little padded cell wearing a jacket with no usable sleeves.
Some research is needed, Michael.
President Putin, like President Biden and President Trump, has been exhibiting heath and cognitive issues for the last 1-2 years. He’s rarely seen “live” anymore. He’s not going to run the world; his Party is. He’s being propped up by it just as the US Presidents are.
I’m guessing, the down votes are those that are not Americans, ’cause they’re response makes no sense, but, what else is new these days.
Welcome to the end days.
Well Lamar, you guessed wrong. Plenty of non-brainwashed americans know that its big media and the military industrial complex propaganda whos scapegoating Putin.
You just keep that shit for yourself, man, lmao, brainwashed my ass, that would and is you.
More of the same BS the oligarch-owned mainstream media has been pushing for decades. Easy to see you have ZERO education on the matter and only parrot what you heard on TV.
There is no “Russia against the US” except for in the minds of the mainstream media suckers and the war profiteers.
Who are these fuckin’ Americans, Russians that are here? Such bullshit.
Get it through ur head- NO russians here. Just people with a level head who havent been brainwashed by the news anchors
FYI, I live next door to some, I never see them with women, might be gay. Wait, how do you know what’s on here?
If the End of Days means I don’t have to deal with libturds like you, Bring on the Rapture
You have no clue what you’re referring to.
Just dumb fucks on here, for sure.
Ditto, but since I’m really not dealing with you. . .
I’m not sure that Putin really cares about gays. But, he’s enlisted the support of the Russian Orthodox Church and if oppressing gays makes the Church happy, then Putin is happy.
It’s a known fact, he dislikes gay people, period.