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   >> | 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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