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Putin Signs Law That Puts Gay People in Jail for ‘Acting’ Gay
If you are proudly gay, Russian law now declares that your pride is “flagrant propaganda” and for that, you can be fined or arrested. By the minute, the hour, the day, Russia just keeps outdoing itself with great feats, don’t you think?
According to the new law, the young woman wearing a shirt like the one above would likely be stopped and if not arrested then at least detained and asked what her intentions were. While we know that perhaps the shirt is just a shirt, Russian cops are smart shitheads and they can’t be fooled by such wily attempts at breaking well-intentioned laws.
The new law makes it illegal to spread “propaganda” about “nontraditional sexual relations” in the media, advertising, movies, or on social media. It had passed the Duma, Russia’s Parliament, by a vote of 397 to 0 on Nov. 24.
Demonstrations of “nontraditional relationships or preferences” will also be completely barred from advertising, and from any outlet visible to minors. Distributing to minors any information “that causes children to want to change their sex” was also prohibited (Putin Signs Law Banning Expressions).
It wasn’t enough that many gays and lesbians already left the country after Russia’s…
