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    • Meet&Eat for people with HIV from Eastern Europe and Central Asia.
    • StartWerk Vluchtelingen.
    • The book ‘(Im)Maculate love’ – Vlad Strukov.
    • LGBT people continue to be humiliated, persecuted and maimed in Russia.
    • LGBT World Beside and RUS LGBTIQ join forces at the first Russian Pride 2021.
    • For the fifth year in a row, Major General Moskalkova has presented a report to Putin without mentioning the problems of the LGBT community.
    • Het Vaticaan weigerde huwelijken van hetzelfde geslacht te zegenen: “De Kerk kan de zonde niet zegenen.”
    • Instagram is asked to punish for gay propaganda.
    • Convict camps for LGBT activists urged to create in the State Duma.
    • The European Union demanded to stop the attacks of the Chechen authorities on Novaya Gazeta.
    • VKontakte blocked the Alliance of Heterosexuals and LGBT People for Equality at the request of Roskomnadzor.
    • “I served in the Chechen police and did not want to kill people”.
    • Three minutes were cut from the film about the gay couple “Supernova”. Russia.
    • At the conference “United Russia” called to ban “propaganda” of sex change, polyamory, bisexuality.
    • The State Duma told about the daily blocking of 200 LGBT groups in social networks.
    • Yulia Tsvetkova confirmed the indictment: up to six years for “distributing porn”.
    • Pavel Tabakov: Until Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin orders gay people to love, the situation will not change.
    • Oreos company shows support for the trans community in latest social media post.
    • In Russia, they began to collect signatures against the LGBT film festival.
  • Events
    • Gay Pride in Amsterdam 2021. (Video)
    • Pride Picnic 2021.
    • Het project “Gratis les” is een jaar oud!
    • LGBT picnic 2020.
    • Zero Flags Project.
    • HBO about us: #IAmAWitness By Harlem Khadzhiev.
    • Video in support of the petition.
    • RUSSIA: INVESTIGATE ANTI-LGBTQ PROPAGANDA VIDEO
    • Brighton Beach Pride 2020 (online).
    • Bringing COC COVID-19 care packages to refugees.
    • COVID-19 Care Package
    • Welcome to Chechnya. Official trailer.
    • Gratis Nederlandse lessen.
    • Berlinale 2020: Welcome to Chechnya.
    • Sundance 2020: How VFX Pulled ‘Welcome to Chechnya’ Out of the Shadows — Exclusive.
    • Antwerp Pride, Belgium 2019!
    • The speech in the Flemish Parliament. (04.04.2019)
    • An action of international solidarity with LGBT refugees from Chechnya.
    • Action in memory of LGBT victims in Chechnya.
    • ILGA-Europe conference 2018
    • Meeting in Paris, the memory of Orlando.
    • There will be a meeting in Paris. We remember Orlando.
    • Gay Parade in Antwerp, Belgium 2018!
    • Today is the day of the abduction of Zelim Bakayev 08.08.2018
    • Gay Parade in Amsterdam 2018.
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  • Archive
    • 2020
      • January 2020 (Archive)
        • A native of Chechnya complained about the “expulsion of the genie” with a stick and tranquilizers.
      • February 2020 (Archive)
        • In Grozny attacked the columnist for the Novaya Gazeta Elena Milashina.
        • Moscow jury acquits suspect of murdering gay man coming home from nightclub.
        • Gay.ru complains about blocking to the European Court of Human Rights.
        • Human Rights Watch criticized amendments to the Constitution of Russia.
      • March 2020 (Archive)
        • Marvel’s new film called to boycott because of two gay kiss scene.
        • A report by the US State Department on human rights has been published. Russia violates LGBT rights.
      • April 2020 (Archive)
        • Levada Center: one fifth of Russians believe that homosexuals “should be eliminated”.
        • #SilenceDay2020 will be held online.
      • May 2020 (Archive)
        • The Netherlands is again out of the top 10 LGBTI rights.
      • June 2020 (Archive)
        • Video for amendments to the Constitution of the Russian Federation.
        • Homophobic video about elections in Russia (ENG subtitles).
        • Police in Russia called a black man a monkey (video with ENG subtitles).
        • Russian singer against gays (Video with ENG sub).
      • July 2020 (Archive)
        • Violence and insult to the LGBT flag in Russia. (Video).
        • They complained to Putin about ice cream with a rainbow because of the “propaganda” of LGBT people.
        • Foreign Ministry sends US, UK and Canada protest notes over LGBT flags on embassy buildings.
      • August 2020 (Archive)
        • Pride Week 2020 without canal parade: ‘But the rainbow flag flutters here every day’.
        • “I keep waiting for my son.” Singer Zelimkhan Bakayev was kidnapped in Chechnya three years ago.
      • September 2020 (Archive)
        • They’re Killing Us: An Introduction to Violence on Grindr.
        • In Yekaterinburg, Cossack patrols stop passers-by under the pretext of fighting “gays” The city simultaneously hosts a fair of family values and a festival of an LGBT center.
      • October 2020 (Archive)
        • TASS reported that the investigative committee plans to arrest gays who used the services of surrogate mothers.
        • Irina Slavina, editor-in-chief of the Nizhny Novgorod edition of KozaPress, set herself on fire at the building of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
        • On Putin’s birthday, Pussy Riot members hung rainbow flags on the buildings of the FSB and the presidential administration.
      • November 2020 (Archive)
        • Interview with director David France about his documentary “Welcome to Chechnya”.
      • December 2020 (Archive)
        • UK announces travel bans and asset freezes for human rights violators.
        • USA: Treasury Sanctions Serious Human Rights Abusers on International Human Rights Day.
    • 2019
      • January 2019 (Archive)
        • For the first time in eight years, the For Human Rights Movement did not receive a presidential grant.
        • Presentation of the documentary dance film #WAITINGFORCOLOR
        • Chechnya has reportedly launched a new ‘gay purge’
        • New details emerge about what one source calls an anti-LGBTQ ‘genocide’ LGBTQ community reports dozens imprisoned and up to 20 killed in Chechnya within past month
        • Two rapporteurs condemn the latest alleged murder, torture and illegal detention of LGBTI persons in Chechnya
        • Russians were offered a gay hunt for a fee
        • LGBT activist beaten for picket in support of Chechen gays.
        • Londoners rally at Russian embassy demanding end to torture in Chechnya.
        • France introduces national LGBTI anti-bullying campaign in all schools.
        • LGBTI people face torture and death in Chechnya – here’s how you can help them.
        • Video: “In Chechnya, if you understand that you’re gay, it’s like you’re dead”
      • February 2019 (Archive)
        • On January 12, in Sofia, in Gallery 2.0, we presented the film WAITING FOR COLOR to the director and choreographer Kosta Karakashian.
        • KOSTA KARAKASHYAN ABOUT TERROR IN CHECHNYA
        • Homophobe killed two Russian gay retirees.
        • Performance “Grenzeloos”.
      • March 2019 (Archive)
        • Brunei urged to halt introduction of strict new anti-LGBT+ laws.
        • The representative of the Russian Orthodox Church called the “crime” and sacrilege of the sex change operation.
        • Russian police raid LGBTI center and detain everyone inside.
        • Survivors of Chechnya’s homophobic purge reveal what happened to them.
        • «Chechnya: The Purge», a short film this Friday on France 3.
        • TRIBUNE. No to the LGBTI massacre in Chechnya.
        • The State Duma introduced a law on the doubling of fines for “homopropaganda” – 100,000 with confiscation.
        • Head of the State Duma Committee on Family Issues Tamara Pletnev: “Gays should be treated”
        • GAYROPA: CHEETS START ASSOCIATION TO HELP LGBT + REFUGEES FROM FATHER’S COUNTRY.
        • Council of Europe anti-torture Committee urges the Russian Federation to carry out effective investigations into allegations of torture in the Northern Caucasian region.
        • Lesbians are also being killed in Chechnya and no-one seems to care.
        • Russia cancels youth festival for promoting LGBTI agenda.
        • Lawyers of Oyub Titiyev told about the falsification of his case.
        • Trump administration is continuing to ignore Chechnya LGBTI crisis.
        • Human rights activist wrote a statement in the UK on the “fighter with gays” from St. Petersburg Timur Bulatov.
      • April 2019 (Archive)
        • Chechen Prime Minister banned from entering US due to torture allegations.
        • Samara LGBT activists were offered “to hold a rally indoors” so that children would not see them.
        • The brutally murdered girl in Kursk previously changed sex.
        • On the eve of Pesach in the suburbs set fire to the Jewish Academy.
        • In St. Petersburg, police detain LGBT activists in the Day of Silence campaign.
        • Pop star reveals horrors of Russian ‘purge’ of gay people: ‘We get beat down’.
        • George Clooney: Boycott Sultan Of Brunei’s Hotels Over Cruel Anti-Gay Laws.
        • Russian MP behind anti-gay law thinks yoga could make prisoners gay.
        • Chechen gay bears witness for the first time about the horror: ‘I Live yet? No idea’.
        • The White Crow faced “hostility” from Russian authorities over gay scenes.
        • Europe politicians slam Russia for failing to tackle gay purge in Chechnya.
        • Azerbaijan police are trying to ‘hunt’ transgender people through internet.
        • Gangs prey on gays through dating apps. New attack – in the center of Moscow.
      • May 2019 (Archive)
        • Russia: LGBT Life through Personal Stories.
        • “THE POLICEMAN SAID:“ WELL, I WOULD GIVE IT TO HIM. ”AS IN CHECHNYA, AN ATTEMPT OF RAPE IS BEING INVESTIGATED IN THE FIRE STATION.
        • Gay Mosque Toronto: a fusion of Islam and LGBT (18+).
        • Russian embassy wrapped in Pride flag to protest Chechnya’s anti-gay purge.
        • The level of fear in respect of LGBT neighbors among Russians has increased three times in ten years.
        • The secret gay history of Islam.
        • Intersex woman evicted by landlord after police harassment in Russia.
        • Russian LGBTIs risk arrest by holding public vigil for gay Holocaust victims.
        • Why we need to talk more about mental health issues in the LGBTQ community.
        • Gay men ‘electrocuted and strung up by legs’ in new wave of torture in Chechnya, says human rights group.
        • In the suburbs, assaults against homosexuals multiply.
        • Four victims of ‘gay purge’ in Chechnya reveal the horrific torture they endured.
        • Horrific evidence emerges of more torture in Chechnya’s gay purge.
        • Human rights activists talked about violence and discrimination of LGBT people in the Moscow region.
        • In choose freedom: 32nd commemoration Homomonument.
      • June 2019 (Archive)
        • “They will kill, not their own, so strangers”: gay about life in Chechnya and the flight from Russia.
        • “Staying in Russia was just dangerous”: interview with a gay activist.
        • Chechnya boycotted a film about Elton John with gay scenes. (News that read in Russia).
        • Sir Elton John slams Russia for censoring scenes from Rocketman. (News that reads the world.)
      • July 2019 (Archive)
        • ‘Terrifying’: adopted kids ordered removed from their gay dads in Russia.
        • Lawyer: a gay couple with children, because of which a criminal case was opened on social security officers, may not return to Russia.
        • Interview with gay from Chechnya from CBC News.
        • 50 years of the LGBT revolution: how the attitude towards sex minorities has changed in the US over half a century.
        • Sir Elton John slams Putin for claiming Russia accepts LGBTQ people.
      • August 2019 (Archive)
        • It can’t be that every instance of the word ‘gay’ is propaganda.
        • 10 bisexual films that you need to watch.
        • LGBT activist left Russia after commenting on Chechen minister.
      • September 2019 (Archive)
        • Ural State University of Economics decided to fight with gays: “We followed, we follow and we will follow students!”
        • Ex-Prime Minister of Britain: “Putin spoke about gays very cool”.
      • October 2019 (Archive)
        • A journalist from the ABC channel came to Chechnya to shoot a report on gay life – and admitted to the head of the Chechen police that he was gay. We found out from him why he did this.
        • Coming out to head of Chechen police, a force accused of brutal ‘gay purge’. (Part 2)
        • ‘Any day you can be taken’: Inside what it’s like to be gay in Chechnya. (Part 1)
        • St. Petersburg murder victim was ‘well-known LGBT rights activist’.
        • Tortured in Chechnya for being gay, this man found refuge and safety in Canada.
      • November 2019 (Archive)
        • Pope Francis says today’s ‘culture of hate’ reminds him of the days of Hitler.
        • Penguin-gay couple steals egg in Amersfoort Zoo.
        • ‘We can find you anywhere’: the Chechen death squads stalking Europe.
    • 2018
      • June 2018 (Archive)
        • LGBT Activist Arrested in Russia During World Cup
        • Why FIFA and Its Western Sponsors Should Be Ashamed of Anti-Queer Violence in Russia
        • Activists Shut Down Budweiser’s Instagram for Sponsoring World Cup in Queerphobic Russia
      • July 2018 (Archive)
        • The immigrants from Chechnya, had held the action in Haag, Netherlands and Brussels, Belgium.
        • Argentina Mocks Russian Gay Propaganda Law With Raunchy World Cup Ad
      • August 2018 (Archive)
        • Human Rights Abuses in Chechnya: 15 OSCE Countries Invoke Vienna Mechanism
      • September 2018 (Archive)
        • Survivors seek justice as Chechnya LGBT purge remains uninvestigated!
      • October 2018 (Archive)
        • NEW YORK – WAITING FOR COLOR is a documentary dance film about the Chechen region of Russia.
      • December 2018 (Archive)
        • Manoë, a young Brussels man, victim of a homophobic attack in Knokke: “They said they wanted to kill me!”
        • OSCE Rapporteur’s Report under the Moscow Mechanism on alleged Human Rights Violations and Impunity in the Chechen Republic of the Russian Federation.
        • No Support. Russia’s “Gay Propaganda” Law Imperils LGBT Youth
        • Girl must be strangled.
Posted on July 4, 2019February 16, 2021 by LGBT World Beside

Interview with gay from Chechnya from CBC News.

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