At the beginning of their 20s, Mikhail * (not his real name), a gay man from Ufa in Russia, what they loved. Attract performance.
“I was going to travel, competitions; I met new artists and planned that DRAG will be the grandfather of my life,” he said to Al Jazeera.
At this stage, Mikhail said, he lived his life openly and experienced a very high enemy from day-day. But in recent years, things have begun changing.
“The problems left in the club industry,” he said. “The restriction was set up on Ukrainian performims numbers, a ban on LGBT related issues. In everyday life, easily had eternal concern.”
The last stone when the police targets the target of Mikhail worked for raid.
“I have been arrested once again, but my last raid was the most difficult and the most terrible.” He remembered him.
“After two investigations, every eighth of the hours continued, not the application of psychological pressure on me. After that, I had to leave the country to protect our freedom.”
Russia is not the only war in Ukraine but also about what he sees inside. The perpetrators of LGBTQ personality, organizations and communities in recent years protects the “traditional values” in recent years.
The Coordinator of Russia’s LGBTQ Lgbtq Organization Program, which told Al Jazeera, said to Al Jazeera, Most of the arrests in the personalities of LGBTQ, rather than direct oppression and institution. “
Because changes to the ban “Gay Propaganda“In 2022, following the ban of the sexual gender and design” such as the “extremist organization”, which is now at least two or three abortions at the hands of the authorities.
The Erstwhile Sussey was one of the first countries in the world to regularly regulate Homosexuality in 1917, new Tsarist laws. But in the 1930s, Homosexuality was sentenced to three-five years in prison in 1930.
Then, he saw a mental illness and both of both gay and lesbian were forced to refugees. Only in 1993, after the collapse of communism, has been removed again.
A freshly trouble flower started laws in 2010 to prevent the “Gay” propaganda “to protect children.
President Vladimir Putin’s government has signed the movement as a foreign agenda for the rights of LGBTQ to evaluate the values of the traditional Russian family.
“Russian authorities do not distinguish between pedoophill and orientations’ to all three articles,” noel Shaida, President of the Spority Ministry of Community Ministry.
At the end of 2023, the Russian Supreme Court has decided “LGBT Movement” as a “extremist organization”. Of course, no such official organization has no such a vomit from many detailed goals.
“Employees of any organization (LGBTQ’s assistance) to participate or organize the extremist activity that is why, potentially potentially motivated by the policy monitoring corridor
“For this reason, many of the initientiat has stopped working in the country. Some organizations came out of Russia to work. In the country where they do not have to work below, there are many querries to work.”
In November, the police stood in Moscow in Moscow across the dams and all around the city were believed to take a quota for a client.
“According to our data, at least 43 of them there were over 2023 from 2023 by January 2025,” said representative of the field representative.
“The results change: of the defendant trial of owners ‘organizing and participation in a violent organization’ for the protocol and the organizations that happened to the propaganda, and the raid is not officially allowed to use government policies, or just approach.”
Monitor added that participants sometimes given for a military registration office, means they can fight in Ukraine.
“Published views often indicate that the guests of the institutions have to continue during the raid, which lasts a couple of hours.
“Violiddet can be used among other things to meet the internal guests to meet illegal police contents or responding to their mobile phone. In this case, people have to pay their phone. In this case, we have to talk. In this case, we are talking about torture.”
In addition, law institutions regularly raided gay parties and with those who are using dating applications or “gay propaganda” to talk positively about the same-sex relationships.
The Queer Activity Activity is aimed in the public area and private life.
In December, andrei Kotov, Men’s director of Moscow, the Moscow Trip Agency was arrested on crimes of “extremist activities” and later found dead in its cell.
Independent Russian News Website now works at the Bible from Latvia, recently reported They are the authorities to be gathered by the raids on gay parties – such as fingers of fingers and DNA and medical records of transgender individuals to create a database from lgbtq individuals.
The purpose of such a database is not clear, but there are also Russian police than drug drugs, which is claimed to describe the targets or proof when the deceived employees needed to reach their queers.
“The collected data can be made to describe the adult criminal accusations against non-existent violent accusations against non-existent violence,” said the cells against the Russian regions, “said the head of the provincial diet.
“It may also be used as a terrible tool; a distressed device; lGBT + people as information ‘volunteers’ information offer to cooperation in return for cooperation.”
Because of continuous pressure, many attempts to escape Russia.
“To be a non-traditional family in Russia, it can be dangerous for freedom and life,” said Anastasia Burakova, Human Rights Affairs, an organization to help russian migrants.
“We have a temporary temporary counseling countries in countries like Serbia, Turkey, and sometimes we see this for the people of LGBTQ. For those who are not very demands for those who are not under trouble.”
Still, the future area is expected.
“Despite all obstacles that put us in front of us, we believe there is a future for LGBT + in Russia, and as much difference, and so on.
“After all things, political regimes are forever, the authorities are not impossible.
But Mikhail is a car, at least in the short term.
“People can’t express themselves, they will try to follow their behavior to make the norms talking now.”
“As be sorry, I think suicide statistics will increase.”
