Essay shows how gay couples living in repressive Russia The world has been following the news related perplexed Russia with legislation that prohibits any public manifestation of homoafetividade as well as the adoption of children by gay couples in and out of the country, besides the severe government crackdown on protests in the country. Ie, any gear, Poster, LGBT parade, magazine, book, movie or informative on the subject can be framed as a criminal act, as anyone who publicly identify as gay. This law anti-gay ad, signed in June this year for Vladimir Putin, came official anti-gay policy in Russia, which is already the Soviet Union that existed between 1922 and 1991 and had homophobic policies his communist regime. In view of this alarming situation, the British photographer Anastasia Ivanova traveled to Russia to find out how gay couples live under a cruel regime, resulting in the trial From Russia With Love, which records their stories, fears and anxieties. To the Russian government, these couples are law-outs. Recently, because of next years Winter Olympics and for many openly gay athletes, the organization launched the #LoveAlwaysWins All Out campaign, making a call to the International Olympic Committee to be positioned against the law anti-gay with a nice video that shows an athlete imagining the celebration of gaining a medal with his partner, soon after realizing I could not do that in Russia.
Posted on: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 02:52:02 +0000