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[–]MezozoicGaygay male 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I heard russia is that bad when it comes to its treatment towards gay men.

It was USSR, not Russia. Russia is bad towards gay men, but not as bad as was USSR. Today people are more agressive towards gay men, thought. Previously people believed it is a disease and we are poor people who are suffering with our "wrong" attraction and need fixing so we can finally be reliefed, so many acted out of pity. Later they were trying to make all paedo cases to be prosecuted on homosexual people, even USSR slurs to call homosexual people ("peedor" and "pedik") are shortened version of word "pederast", at that point people were hating homosexual people "for raping young boys and girls". Nowadays people watching propaganda and thinking that homosexuality is something you can learn and that it is USA who is attacking with homosexual propaganda to destabilize Russia, so people are acting more agressively. However, laws themselves are not as strict as were in USSR. To my luck, I am not living in Russia since USSR dissapeared.

There was funny situation, when icecream company "Rainbow" was prosecuted as "homosexual propaganda", so they changed name and logo.