Two detainees fined 50,000 roubles (£350) for ‘trying to arouse interest in non-traditional sexual relations’

Crossposted from https://lemmy.world/post/23801022

Russia fined at least seven people for “looking too gay” after a police raid on a nightclub in Tula in February which videos show was carried out by men in military-style uniforms and helmets.

It comes as the Kremlin ramps up a push to promote “traditional values” that has included tightening anti-LGBT legislation and banning “propaganda promoting a child-free lifestyle”.

One man had “crosses of black tape glued to his nipples” and a “women’s style corset” on his “naked” body.

Another had “pink socks … an unbuttoned kimono over his shoulders, his hair dyed bright orange, and red tattoos on his face”.

“Although a man, he was wearing a short top covering his chest, black leather shorts above the knee, on which there were several chain-shaped ornaments, and fishnet tights,” read another description.

“The appearance of the detainees is inconsistent with the image of a man of traditional sexual orientation,” judges were reported to have said.

    • sanpo
      251·
      6 days ago

      Him too, long hair is gay af. /s

      • stinky@redlemmy.comEnglish
        17·
        6 days ago

        bro slept with 12 dudes every night, and he was so good at it they started a religion after him

    • eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      6 days ago

      don’t worry; it’s just more pink washing, they’ve literally been doing something like this to the gay clubs in austin since 2000.

          • DdCno1@beehaw.org
            3·
            6 days ago

            Seems like it closed due to gentrification. How on Earth is this comparable to the government fining people for being gay?

              • DdCno1@beehaw.org
                3·
                6 days ago

                Have you considered that I’m not informed about local matters in this particular part of a city thousands of miles away from where I’m living and that this is all I can find about this with a cursory search? You’re free to provide a decent source on the matter instead of being passive-aggressive about this and trying to lead me onto a bad paper chase with cryptic writing. I had no idea what “chain drive” even meant before I started looking.

                Even if you were 100% correct about this club closing due to a government-sponsored campaign against it (which seems unlikely, given that Democrat mayor was in office when this club was closed, one who spoke out in favor of gay marriage when he was mayor of Austin), this doesn’t make it anywhere near comparable to the government repression and violence that LGBTQ+ people are experiencing in Russia.

                  • DdCno1@beehaw.org
                    3·
                    6 days ago

                    You treat me as if I was an enemy, even though I’m not. You make assumption about me that don’t even make sense if you look at what I’m writing in the same thread or in direct replies to you. I get that you are frustrated, afraid and so many other things due to the experiences you’ve had and I’m sorry that you had to go through this, but you are not going to make any friends or garner much additional sympathy by being this abrasive.

                    I would be interested to learn more about this, bot the general entrapment scheme and how it was employed to close this particular club. Is the latter just local lore so to speak (that you couldn’t possibly expect someone who isn’t a local to know about) or has anyone written about it elsewhere?

                    I will also repeat my claim that this isn’t the same as what Russia is doing, not even close. You will have to admit that concentration camps and murder squads are considerably more extreme of a human rights violation than shutting down gay clubs through subterfuge. I get that this particular incident in Russia is perhaps closer to what you’re describing and that you care more about what’s happening in your home town than thousands of miles away, but wouldn’t it make more sense to keep the two topics separated until there’s an obvious overlap, e.g. with a Republican law maker directly or indirectly importing Russian repressive measures?