A court in the central Russian city of Nizhny Novgorod has jailed a woman for wearing rainbow earrings, the human rights group Egida reported late Wednesday, marking the second case of its kind after Russia banned the so-called “LGBT movement” as an “extremist” organization in November.   According to Egida, law enforcement agents tasked with combating “extremism” detained the woman after a group of “aggressive people” approached her and her friend at a local cafe and filmed them on camera.

ngl russia is not making it easy to give critical support lol

  • kristina [she/her]English
    30•1 year ago

    because I think the west uses wealthy urbanite associations of that kind in Russia (particularly St Petersberg/Moscow) for spying activities.

    This has a factual basis, many LGBT communities in the global south are aware of it. Being LGBT in a country shit for LGBT people re: almost all of them makes it easier to blackmail you and spam you with propaganda that somehow America and the west are a significant leg up on LGBT rights, somehow. And of course they sweeten the deal by giving you money

    • Carguacountii [none/use name]English
      17•1 year ago

      yes, and i think the state response is predictable - round up as many as you can on spurious identifiers (sumptuary laws like these rainbow jewelry), interrogate them and get them on record, and try to judge who is or isn’t a threat to state security, or who can be useful or ‘turned’.

      • kristina [she/her]English
        12•1 year ago

        but this does all sort of seriously put into question why these countries continue to even allow homophobia to exist as general consensus

        Frankly it’s because of brainworms and old propaganda. Cuba and East Germany explicitly mentioned this was a part of why they’re championing LGBT rights