Unofficial AP News (World) Bot: Police raid Moscow gay bars after a Supreme Court ruling labeled LGBTQ+ movement ‘extremist’

Police raid Moscow gay bars after a Supreme Court ruling labeled LGBTQ+ movement ‘extremist’

Police raid Moscow gay bars after a Supreme Court ruling labeled LGBTQ+ movement ‘extremist’apnews.com Russian security forces have raided gay clubs and bars across Moscow less than 48 hours after the country’s top court banned what it called the “global LGBTQ+ movement” as an extremist organization.

We must realise how close we are to this

Republicans = Putinites

Now I understand why the US Christian right love Putin

They share a common bond with racism, misogyny and homophobia

Exactly

Small dick energy

Russia = Middleage

Not that far back. Just to good ol' Soviet Union times. When being gay was a federal crime.

People forget how not too long ago being gay was illegal almost everywhere

Only in 2003 was gay sex actually legalized nationwide in the US, with the SCOTUS ruling on Lawrence v. Texas, a deciscion the current housen speaker strongly decried mind you. He also worked for the ADF which filed briefs in support of the criminalization of gay sex.

It was legal in many states for longer. And going west was a thing

"Up until 2003 people were literally driven from their homes in fear of literal government violence for being gay" really doesn't lend a lot of weight to whatever point you're trying to make here.

Is this meant to excuse Russia’s high court?

I think it’s meant to rebut that making being LGBT illegal puts you all the way back in the Middle Ages, when it’s more like… 20 years ago for the US and even that’s somewhat arguable

Russia’s government is diligently working on making this their new reality. Don’t say you weren’t warned when gays in the largest country in the world are rounded up and put in camps. Putin and the siloviki need some convenient scapegoats to distract the public from their disastrous war.

You should look up laws on being gay in Britain over the years

Yes, the United Kingdom is not a civilized country

no country eating mushy peas, toast sandwiches, and that much boiled salted meat could ever be civilized.

I mean, that's true, but that's WHY they're not a civilized country

But now you can eat delicious South Asian food everywhere in the UK. Among other salutary culinary borrowings.

based

Don't know the full history, but am aware what happened to Alan Turing.

Homosexuality amongst men within Russia was illegal from 1832. And honestly I'm surprised the USSR maintained such a stance given East Germany under USSR occupation created spaces for gay men

They actually have time to do this and manpower? Thought they were busy with a war. Hey, but that’s why Nazis Germany and Napoleon lost their wars, they wanted to control everything and everybody. Same reason trump and the radical GOP will lose.

its their police. not their military.

many of the doofuses sent into the first waves were riot police, entire units were depleted as they expected to be used for "pacifying" Ukrainians during the 3-day "transition of power" as they described it. Thankfully, most of them died with the VDV paratroopers in plane shootdowns.

They sent a lot of their elite Spetsnaz protest-suppression cops to Ukraine, to be summarily slaughtered in Kherson.

This is a preview and a warning to us and the rest of the world. If the GOP gets back in power with Trump & trumpism in power, democracy will fail and we will have authoritarianism / fascism in the good old USA. They will also come for our communities as they are in Russia now.

If AP replaces "Russia" with "Florida" and "Putin" with "DeSantis" they will be able to rerun this article in 2024.

They just can’t seem to stop committing human rights violations. #FuckRussia

Fascism.

Haha i fucking live here. It's genuinely awful and I'm scared for my own life. Yesterday I was kicked out of home because i don't think that "evil Lgbt+ organisation" even exist and will "spoil the country". I came back today, yea. So I'm fine now..maybe. I really want to leave this place

Who kicked you out?

My mom

Six weeks from now gay Russians will be leading meat wave assaults in Bakhmut

Yep, the Pute cabal seizing the opportunity to pressgang more cannon fodder.

Coming to America if Trump & Republicans win in 24.

Imagine a justice ministry inventing cases for a supreme court to legislate into repression

We don't have to imagine it in the US

The diseased influence of the Russian Orthodox Church has a hand in this.

Damn, so the authorities reject accusations of LGBTQ+ discrimination, “the rights of LGBT people in Russia are protected” legally.But “restraining public demonstration of nontraditional sexual relationships or preferences is not a form of censure for them.” GMAB

Those who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it ~ George Santayana. But these days, I wonder if now the past is just certain peoples' playbook for power...they yearn to perfect their greed and hate and control over others.

:’(

Feels like we are going back in terms of acceptance.

I don’t think acceptance has ever been particularly good in Russia. Putin has been in power for a long time now, and he’s always been violently against human rights for the lgbt+ community.

And we wonder why the thugs love Putin.

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