A museum dedicated to Russia’s LGBTQ historical past in St Petersburg has opened and closed within the house of a couple of days after Russia’s tricky new ‘homosexual propaganda’ legislation got here into drive.
Pyotr Voskresensky is the founding father of the museum. He devoted years to gathering the choice of Russian-made statues, jewelry, vases, books and different artwork gadgets that showcased the historical past of the rustic’s LGBTQ subculture
However, the gathering fell foul of the legislation that absolutely bans what the government regard because the promotion of “non-traditional” sexual family members.
On the fifth of December, Russian president Vladimir Putin signed a legislation which banned totally anything else deemed “propaganda” of non-traditional sexual family members, gender reassignment and paedophilia. This extends to media, the web, commercials, books or motion pictures.
If discovered responsible of disseminating “LGBT propaganda” amongst minors, an individual faces a superb of as much as €75,000 (5 million roubles), whilst amongst adults the superb is greater than €60,000 (4 million roubles). Fines for “propaganda promoting paedophilia” will probably be €150,000 (10 million roubles) whilst “gender change propaganda” faces a superb of €60,000 (4 million roubles).
The new law had already hardened harsh anti-gay rules. The museum’s temporary opening used to be a symbolic protest towards the crackdown on an embattled minority neighborhood.
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