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On 18 Nov 2023, "ELON X." <[email protected]> posted some news:ujan6k$3c8ul$[email protected]:

| Send all the queers to work in coal mines or scrubbing the insides
| of fuel tanks. Just leave them in there when they keel over.

MOSCOW � The Russian Justice Ministry on Friday said it has filed a
lawsuit with the nation�s Supreme Court to outlaw the LGBTQ
�international public movement� as extremist, the latest crippling blow
against the already beleaguered LGBTQ community in the increasingly conservative country.

The ministry said in an online statement announcing the lawsuit that authorities have identified �signs and manifestations of extremist
nature� in �the activities of the LGBT movement active� in Russia,
including �incitement of social and religious discord.� Russia�s Supreme
Court has scheduled a hearing to consider the lawsuit for Nov. 30, the
ministry said.

It wasn�t immediately clear what exactly the label would entail for
LGBTQ people in Russia if the Supreme Court sides with the Justice
Ministry. But the move in itself represents the latest, and by far the
most drastic, step in the decadelong crackdown on gay rights in Russia unleashed under President Vladimir Putin, who has put �traditional
family values� at the cornerstone of his rule.

The crackdown, which began a decade ago, slowly but surely chipped away
at LGBTQ rights. In 2013, the Kremlin adopted the first legislation
restricting LGBTQ rights, known as the �gay propaganda� law, banning any noncritical public depiction of �nontraditional sexual relations� among
minors. In 2020, Putin pushed through a constitutional reform to extend
his rule by two more terms that also outlawed same-sex marriage.

In 2022, after sending troops into Ukraine, the Kremlin ramped up its
rhetoric about protecting �traditional values� from what it called the
West�s �degrading� influence, in what rights advocates saw as an attempt
to legitimize the military action in Ukraine. That same year, the
authorities adopted a law banning propaganda of �nontraditional sexual relations� among adults, too, effectively outlawing any public
endorsement of LGBTQ people.

Another law passed this year prohibited gender transitioning procedures
and gender-affirming care for trans people. The legislation prohibited
any �medical interventions aimed at changing the sex of a person,� as
well as changing one�s gender in official documents and public records.
It also amended Russia�s Family Code by listing gender change as a
reason to annul a marriage and adding those �who had changed gender� to
a list of people who can�t become foster or adoptive parents.

�Do we really want to have here, in our country, in Russia, �Parent No.
1, No. 2, No. 3� instead of �mom� and �dad?�� Putin said in September
2022 at a ceremony to formalize Moscow�s annexation of four Ukrainian
regions. �Do we really want perversions that lead to degradation and
extinction to be imposed in our schools from the primary grades?�

https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/russian-authorities-ask-supreme- court-declare-lgbtq-movement-extremist-rcna125683

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