First Fines In Russia for Anti-Gay Propaganda
Molodoi Dalnevostochnik, the oldest publication in the Khabarovsk region of Russia, came under fire because of an article about a school teacher allegedly fired because he was gay. The story titled “A History About Gay-ography,” was published in September.
The editor in chief, Alexander Suturin was fined 50,000 rubles ($1,400) under Russia’s anti-LGBT “propaganda” law.
This is the first time since the introduction of anti-gay propaganda legislation was introduced that a media outlet was formally charged. The law prohibits informing underage children about the “attractiveness of nontraditional sexual relationships” and giving them “distorted ideas about social equality of traditional and nontraditional sexual relationships.”
Molodoi Dalnevostochnik came under fire because it bears a label warning people only above the age of 16 to visit its website. The law passed in June prohibited “promotion of nontraditional sexual relations among minors.” The age of majority in Russia is 18.
President Vladimir Putin continues to claim that the law does not amount to discrimination of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual community.
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