Russia passes law banning ‘LGBT propaganda’ among adults
by Pjotr Sauer from World news | The Guardian on (#665ZY)
Bill criminalises promotion of non-traditional sexual relations' as Moscow pushes conservative values
Russia's parliament has passed the third and final reading of a law banning LGBT propaganda" among all adults, as Moscow ramps up its conservative push at home amid the war in Ukraine that passed the nine-month mark on Thursday.
The bill criminalises any act regarded as an attempt to promote what Russia calls non-traditional sexual relations" - in film, online, advertising or in public - and expands on a notorious 2013 law that banned propaganda of nontraditional sexual relations" among minors and was used to detain gay rights activists.
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