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Turkey: Change Law of Misdemeanors to End Abuse of Trans People- by IGLHRC on 11/19/09: http://www.iglhrc.org/cgi-bin/iowa/article/takeaction/globalactionalerts/1018.html (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
"The Issue:<br><br>
In recent months, the harassment of transgender and transsexual persons in Turkey has intensified as police abuse the country's Law of Misdemeanors to legitimize daily fines, extortion, eviction, detention, and police brutality. The law gives security forces tremendous leeway to punish any noise, disobedience, and disturbance, with virtually no oversight in how the law is applied or recourse to those who are penalized."
(PDF - 194 Kb) Document Date: 19 Nov 2009 (Downloads: 237)
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Groundbreaking PRA Investigation Exposes Influence of U.S. Religious Conservatives in Promoting Homophobia in Africa- by www.publiceye.org on 11/18/09: http://www.publiceye.org/ark/africa-report/press-release.php (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
"Sexual minorities in Africa have become collateral damage to our domestic conflicts and culture wars as U.S. conservative evangelicals and those opposing gay pastors and bishops within mainline Protestant denominations woo Africans in their American fight, a groundbreaking investigation by Political Research Associates (PRA) discovered" <br><br> "We need to stand up against the U.S. Christian Right peddling homophobia in Africa," said Kaoma, who in recent weeks asked U.S. evangelist Rick Warren to denounce the bill and distance himself from its supporters. "I heard church people in Uganda say they would go door to door to root out LGBT people and now our brothers and sisters are being further targeted by proposed legislation criminalizing them and threatening them with death. The scapegoating must stop."
(PDF - 113 Kb) Document Date: 18 Nov 2009 (Downloads: 192)
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Russia: Anti-Gay Russia, why is a former Communist country so homophobic?-By Cathy Young-06/08/07-http://reason.com/archives/2007/06/08/anti-gay-russia (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
This document was provided by Immigration Equality, New York, NY<br><br> For the second year in a row, gay activists in Moscow have tried to hold a parade to mark the anniversary of the decriminalization of homosexuality in Russia. This choice of date was rich with irony: the outcome was a powerful reminder that decriminalization does not equal tolerance. Once again, as in 2006, the parade was banned by the city authorities, and the people who attempted to protest the ban found themselves on the receiving end of brutality both from a gay-bashing mob and from the police. Alas, this ugly incident is all too typical of the treatment of gays in many post-Communist countries.
(PDF - 181 Kb) Document Date: 8 Jun 2007 (Downloads: 247)
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Russia: Anti-gay violence rips through Moscow-By Gay.com-05/29/07-http://www.gay.com/news/article.html?2007/05/29/2 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
This document was provided by Immigration Equality, New York, NY<br><br> Police detained gay rights activists, among them European lawmakers, as they tried to present a letter to Moscow's mayor Sunday in a demonstration that also attracted a hostile crowd of people who punched and threw eggs at the activists.
(PDF - 78 Kb) Document Date: 29 May 2007 (Downloads: 240)
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Russia: Bloody Prejudice-By The Guardian-11/03/08-http://www.petertatchell.net/blood%20ban%20on%20gays/bloodyprejudice.htm (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
This document was provided by Immigration Equality, New York, NY<br><br>According to the NBS, a man who has had oral or anal sex with another man only once in his life, perhaps more than 40 years ago, long before the beginning of the HIV pandemic, is prohibited from donating blood.<br>The ban also applies to men who have never had unprotected oral or anal sex; having always used a condom. Even a man whose same-sex experience is limited to a few sucks behind the bike sheds when he was a schoolboy is banned as a blood donor.
(PDF - 81 Kb) Document Date: 3 Nov 2006 (Downloads: 248)
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Russia: Crucible of hate-By The Guardian-06/01/07/-http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/jun/01/gayrights.poland (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
This document was provided by Immigration Equality, New York, NY<br><br>All across eastern Europe, gay people are demanding equality. But in Russia, Poland and Latvia, their growing confidence is being met with violent resistance from nationalist and religious groups. What lies behind this hysteria? Phoebe A Greenwood reports
(PDF - 119 Kb) Document Date: 1 Jun 2007 (Downloads: 151)
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Russia: Dark Side of Russia's Rainbow-By Emily Udell-11/30/07-http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/3424/ (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
This document was provided by Immigration Equality, New York, NY<br><br> Rainbow banners. Colorful costumes. Thumping music. Waving politicians. These are some modern-day trappings of a typical gay pride parade in any major U.S. city. But it?s a far cry from the scene of this year?s pride march in Moscow, where participants were ridiculed, beaten and arrested for daring to demonstrate publicly in a country where homosexuality was a crime until 1993.
(PDF - 351 Kb) Document Date: 30 Nov 2007 (Downloads: 133)
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Russia: Gay Rights Under Attack-By Human Rights Watch-06/14/07-http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2007/06/12/russia-gay-rights-under-attack (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
This document was provided by Immigration Equality, New York, NY<br><br>The violent attacks on peaceful gay pride demonstrators in Moscow in late May show the rollback of respect for human rights in Russia, Human Rights Watch and the European Region of the International Lesbian and Gay Association (ILGA-Europe) said in a briefing paper released today.<br>Instead of protecting human rights and gay advocates who tried to assemble, Moscow police colluded with skinheads to break up the Gay Pride demonstration. The two organizations documented the violence and urged legal protections for both freedom of assembly for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people.
(PDF - 67 Kb) Document Date: 14 Jun 2007 (Downloads: 230)
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Russia: If Rus proves He's gay, he can stay-By Susan Paynter-02/28/07-http://www.seattlepi.com/paynter/305339_paynt28.html (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
This document was provided by Immigration Equality, New York, NY<br><br> It's been three years since I met a mom named Wendy Wartes of Woodinville and the son, Rus from Belarus, whom she and her family of five adopted after he came here as an exchange student.<br>Back "home," when Rus "came out" at age 13, his family wanted to send him to a mental hospital for shock therapy. But here, with the Wartes family, he found acceptance and love the next time he ventured "out" at 17.
(PDF - 98 Kb) Document Date: 28 Feb 2007 (Downloads: 263)
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Russia: Moscow anti-gay attack condemned-By BBC News- 05/28/07-http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6698173.stm (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
This document was provided by Immigration Equality, New York, NY<br><br>Both men were hit on the head during a gay rights march on Sunday. Protesters attacked with kicks, punches and eggs.<br>Mr Tatchell, Mr Fairbrass and two European Parliament deputies were among 31 people detained by Russian police.<br>London Mayor Ken Livingstone deplored the violence, as did the mayors of Paris and Rome.
(PDF - 63 Kb) Document Date: 28 May 2007 (Downloads: 246)
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Russia: Moscow police collude with fascists and right-wing nationalists-By The Guardian-06/01/07-http://www.petertatchell.net/international/russianewpolicestate.htm (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
This document was provided by Immigration Equality, New York, NY<br><br>The recent suppression of Moscow Gay Pride is further evidence that Russia is fast reverting to autocracy and authoritarianism. The post-communist democratic opening of the early 1990s is no more.<br>Despite constitutional guarantees of freedom of expression and the right to protest, these liberties are now largely dependent on the whim and fancy of the Kremlin leaders. Under strongman President Vladimir Putin, the Russian regime has more than a whiff of old-style Stalinism. This is evident in the repeated suppression of democracy activists like Garry Kasparov and the banning of the anti-war, pro-human rights Russian-Chechen Friendship Society.
(PDF - 85 Kb) Document Date: 1 Jun 2007 (Downloads: 164)
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Russia: Putin Vote Rig Snares Gays- By Gay City News-12/07/07-http://www.gayrussia.ru/en/news/detail.php?ID=10506 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
This document was provided by Immigration Equality, New York, NY<br><br> The harsh crackdown on dissent in Vladimir Putin's Russia that accompanied Sunday's parliamentary elections also targeted gays, as more than a dozen gay activists - including Nikolai Alexeyev, the young lawyer who is the chief organizer of Moscow Pride - were arrested on December 2 inside a polling station in that nation's capital.<br>Alexeyev and his fellow activists were attempting to cast ballots which they had deliberately spoiled by writing "No to Homophobes" on them. Two weeks previously, a group of LGBT activists had called for such a spoiled-ballot protest to underscore that no political party running in Sunday's elections supports gay and lesbian rights.
(PDF - 26 Kb) Document Date: 7 Dec 2007 (Downloads: 118)
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Russia: Rights Movement Divides Russia's Gay Community-By The Washington Post-08/11/07-http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/10/AR2007081002041.html (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
This document was provided by Immigration Equality, New York, NY<br><br> Should they openly confront what many people see as growing homophobia in a society where nationalism is on the rise and grass-roots social movements are almost nonexistent? Or should they lie low and hope for gradual improvement? The issue has opened a deep divide in the gay community, with most appearing to favor a low-key approach.<br>"On the one hand, it's good that people are talking about it, that it isn't covered up that this fact exists," said Gusyatinskaya, drawing on conversations with the hundreds of gay people who have visited her archive in the past decade. "Yet how this is talked about, particularly on television, doesn't help to destroy homophobia, but rather unleashes it."
(PDF - 17 Kb) Document Date: 11 Aug 2007 (Downloads: 190)
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Russia: Riot troops break up a gay rights rally in Moscow-By Michael Schwirtz-05/27/07-http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/27/world/europe/27iht-moscow.4.5886364.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=riot%20troops%20break%20up%20a%20gay%20rights%20rally%20in%20moscow&st=cse (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
This document was provided by Immigration Equality, New York, NY<br><br> The police and riot troops Sunday prevented a rally for homosexual rights in Moscow, detaining organizers along with European lawmakers, as members of Orthodox Christian and nationalist groups pummeled gay rights demonstrators with insults, eggs and fists.<br>Nikolai Alekseyev, the main organizer of the event, appeared at Moscow City Hall, but the police immediately pushed him and several other demonstrators into a police bus.<br>Meanwhile, skirmishes broke out across from City Hall along Tverskaya Street, the main thoroughfare of Moscow, between gay rights protesters and counterprotesters. The general disorder obscured the number of participants in the demonstration, and the police had no clear figures.
(PDF - 119 Kb) Document Date: 27 May 2007 (Downloads: 222)
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Russia: Russian anti-homophobia week faces nationalist protests-By Pink News.co.uk-03/17/08-http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-7147.html (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
This document was provided by Immigration Equality, New York, NY<br><br> Anti-gay activist have begun preparations to disrupt the planned Russian Week Against Homophobia.<br>It is being held in cities such as Moscow, St Petersburg, Voronezh,Krasnodar, Omsk, Petrozavodsk, Rostov-na-Donu, Samara, Tumen and Cheylabinsk.<br>During the week of March 25th-31st, there will be a series of seminars, panel discussions, meetings and film showings with debates.<br>In addition to this, more signatures for the Manifesto against Homophobia, that was started last year, will be sought.<br>However, such events are not welcomed by all.
(PDF - 216 Kb) Document Date: 17 Mar 2008 (Downloads: 231)
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Russia: Russian lawmakers move to recriminalize homosexuality-By Gay.com-02/13/07-http://www.gay.com/news/election/article.html?2007/02/13/4 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
This document was provided by Immigration Equality, New York, NY<br><br> The bill, introduced into Russia's lower house by Deputy Nikolay Kuryanovich, is nearly identical to the 1933 criminal code under Stalin, which made homosexuality punishable by five years of hard labor.
(PDF - 129 Kb) Document Date: 13 Feb 2007 (Downloads: 234)
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Eastern Europe: Video documents homophobia on the rise-By Sameer Padania-09/20/06-http://globalvoicesonline.org/2006/09/20/eastern-europe-video-documents-homophobia-on-the-rise/ (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
This document was provided by Immigration Equality, New York, NY<br><br>Countries:<br>Croatia, Latvia, Poland, Russia, Serbia<br>Topics: <br>Freedom of Speech, Cyber-Activism, Gender, Governance, Human Rights, Law, LGBT, Protest, Religion, Politics<br>Specials:<br>Human Rights Video
(PDF - 124 Kb) Document Date: 20 Sep 2006 (Downloads: 130)
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Russia: Civil Rights 1-0 Moscow mayor-By Peter Tatchell-06/01/06-http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2006/jun/01/gays1moscowmayor0 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
This document was provided by Immigration Equality, New York, NY<br><br> Battered and bruised they may be, but lesbian and gay Russians have won an important moral and political victory: Moscow's mayor, Yuri Luzhkov, said a gay parade would never happen while he was mayor, but Moscow Pride went ahead despite his ban, police arrests and violence from neo-fascists, rightwing nationalists and Orthodox Christians.<br>I was there. I witnessed first-hand the vicious homophobic abuse and violence made possible by the de facto collusion of the Moscow city authorities. What happened last Saturday demonstrates precisely why Moscow Pride is necessary.<br>It was an ugly day for all Russians, gay and straight. Democracy and human rights were the losers. The suppression of Moscow Pride was another reminder of Russia's appalling human rights record. If a few peaceful gay protesters are treated as enemies of the state, the likelihood that Russia will tolerate serious dissent any time soon looks highly improbable.
(PDF - 178 Kb) Document Date: 1 Jun 2006 (Downloads: 153)
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Russia: Moldovan is "national hero" for gay journalist murder-by Pinknews-04/04/06-http://www.pinknews.co.uk/index.php?s=moldovan+is+national+hero+for+gay+journalist+murder (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
This document was provided by Immigration Equality, New York, NY<br><br> The chief suspect in the murder of Russian gay broadcast journalist Ilya Zimin is being hailed as a national hero for killing a homosexual, according to newspaper reports.<br>Ilya Zimin, a reporter for NTV television was found beaten to death at his flat in Moscow last month, with clear signs of a violent struggle.
(PDF - 109 Kb) Document Date: 4 Apr 2006 (Downloads: 215)
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Russia: National Gay and lesbian Task Force condemns state-sanctioned attacks on Moscow gay Pride participants-By Roberta Skiar-05/30/06-http://www.thetaskforce.org/press/releases/pr947_053006 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
This document was provided by Immigration Equality, New York, NY<br><br> Acting to enforce Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov?s ban on the city?s first-ever Gay Pride March, perhaps as many as 100 lesbian and gay participants were arrested by police on May 27, including Nicolas Alexeyev, principal organizer. Other reports indicate that police and anti-gay protesters, linked with fascist groups, injured gay and lesbian participants, including Volker Beck, an openly gay member of the German Parliament and prime sponsor of Germany?s domestic partnership law, and Oscar Wilde?s grandson, Merlin Holland. British gay rights activist Peter Tatchell filed a first-hand account from Moscow, saying, ?We were immediately set upon by about 100 fascist thugs and religious fanatics who began pushing, punching and kicking us. They snatched flowers out of our hands and abused us with chants of ?No sodomy in Moscow? and ?Put the pederasts on the iron? and ?Russia is not Sodom.? We were pushed and carried like corks on a sea of fascist pushing and shoving?Groups of roaming neo-Nazis stormed around the square looks for gays and lesbians to attack.?
(PDF - 175 Kb) Document Date: 30 May 2006 (Downloads: 120)
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