Anti-LGBT or anti-gay can refer to activities which fall into any (or a combination) of these categories:
- Attitudes against LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) or discrimination against LGBT people, such as:
- Anti-LGBT rhetoric – themes, catchphrases, and slogans which have been used to condemn homosexuality or to demean homosexuals
- Homophobic propaganda
- Heterosexism – attitudes, bias, and discrimination in favor of heterosexuality or heterosexual people
- Homophobia – antipathy toward homosexual people and (literally) fear of or aversion to them
- Lesbophobia – antipathy toward lesbians
- Biphobia – antipathy toward bisexual people
- Transphobia – antipathy toward transgendered people
- Homonegativity – a negative attitude towards homosexuality
- Ex-gay movement – people who once identified as homosexual or bisexual, but who no longer assert that identity
- Violence against LGBT people
- Gay bashing
- LGBT rights opposition:
- Opponents of same-sex marriage in the United States
- Religious opposition to homosexuality
- Religion and homosexuality
- List of organizations designated by the Southern Poverty Law Center as anti-gay hate groups
How anti-gay groups use 'Russian Facebook' to persecute LGBT people
It is known as the Russian Facebook, and it is the 8th biggest social networking site in the world, with over 239 million registered users and 55 million active daily. It is VKontakte (VK), and it is host to videos of rapes, threats to kill, and the humiliation of gay people.
While the world tunes in to the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, hundreds of gay, lesbian, and transgender Russian citizens will be persecuted and attacked; the result of plots formed online by homophobic groups buoyed up by Putin’s anti-gay propaganda laws.
“Occupy Paedophilia” was one of the leading groups to feature in a Channel 4 Dispatches programme, broadcast last Wednesday, which exposed the extent of the violence faced by the LGBT community. The group has a prominent presence on VK, with over 90,000 followers – as well as other local factions pulling in more supporters.
Occupy Paedophilia use the site to connect with gay men, posing as potential love interests, before luring them into situations where they will be attacked, a process they refer to as “safaris” using “bait”.
Uploaded regularly to the site, films show victims being violently attacked and humilliated. This is content that is easily available to view, and is “liked”, passed around, and shared on the site, seemingly without impediment.
Warning: This video contains footage some viewers may find disturbing
The leader of Occupy Paedophilia, Ekaterina Zigunova, has posted screenshots of abuse she has received from UK television viewers after the airing of the Dispatches investigation, in which she featured heavily.
Despite the group claiming on screen that they are not neo-Nazis, but rather upholding a moral obligation to rid Russia of paedophiles (whom they conflate with homosexuals), the VK pages of Occupy Paedophilia and other similar groups are littered with Nazi insignia.
So what is VK doing about the profiles and groups which organise and post evidence of the criminal activity (although not recognised as hate crime under Russian law) which has brought so much widespread international criticism and resulted in calls for a boycott of the Sochi Winter Olympics?
When contacted by the Guardian, George Lobushkin, VK’s press officer, pledged to delete the content. “We do our best to remove the content that violates our terms of service, as fast as possible. Videos of violence and abuse are forbidden,” he said.
“We also block and delete communities where users call to violence or illegal actions against gay people or any other people. Please note that we are the only Russian social network that lets its users select a same-sex person when specifying their relationship status.
“But it is very important for VKontakte to be an independent company, equidistant from any ideological position or belief. People can express themselves freely, as long as they don’t commit illegal acts or call others to those.”
VK is not the only social network site on which Occupy Paedophilia is operating. YouTube returns over 23,000 search results for the gang, and hate propaganda from Russian fascist groups is tweeted often.
Kirill Maryin is a teenager in Novosibirsk, Russia’s third largest city, who has set up the Twitter account, @ru_lgbt_teen. The profile’s name is simply Gay Teen from Russia, with a picture of an SOS sign, and the bio: “World, help us! I plead you! History must not happen again!”
Kirill tweets about the everyday discrimination that he faces, as well as coverage of Russia’s politics, authorities, and how Russia’s homophobia is being covered by external news outlets.
He told the Guardian he started the account to help the world understand the struggles of the LGBT population in Russia from the viewpoint of a teenager on the ground, rather than a celebrity campaigner.
“General information about gay life in Russia has come from Nikolai Alekseev and his project GayRussia in the past few years.
“I wanted people who live abroad to hear the true story of life for LGBT teenagers from Russia. I have no husband in Switzerland, I do not live in the ECHR, I do not organise Gay Pride in Moscow. I am an ordinary LGBT teenager, and in this country, that is incredibly dangerous.
“Gays have become targets of crimes and human rights violations. The Russian state uses LGBT as a shorthand for ‘internal enemies’. Homophobia is very much prevalent in our society.”
The time Kirill feels the impact of homophobia the most is at school. “I have been insulted and humiliated, and the teachers pretend that nothing is happening. I am called ‘motherfucker, fag, cock, a non-entity, a mistake of nature’.
“Once they told me I should move to the Netherlands because that country is for fags. I hate my school, my class and my teachers. I have no friends there, and I dream of it ending.
“I am not considered a person. I have low self-esteem. Psychologists cannot do anything, and they are often also homophobic. Honestly, I cannot see an end to this problem.”
As Lobushkin points out, the site does have LGBT groups. I ask Kirill if thse help him. He tells me that although he has an account and has added many LGBT groups, he limits his activity and he does not openly identify as gay on the site because he could be targeted.
“I would like them to remove all the fascist calls and actions. I do not feel free there.”
Children 404 is one of the biggest LGBT support groups on VK. The 404 element is a reference to the internet error message – ‘404 not found’ – because gay people feel isolated and ignored, and because Russian authorities like to pretend that gay individuals do not exist.
Or as the group’s founder Lena Klimova explains: “they believe LGBT people arrived from Mars”.
Klimova is 25 and lives in Nizhny Tagil, in the Urals area of Russia. She is openly gay and works as a journalist. Children 404 focuses on helping gay teenagers.
“I saw that they needed help, at least this kind of help – the possibility to tell other people about themselves, the chance to speak out and possibly get some advice, to form a community online.
“Homophobic harassment is very common on VKontakte, as in real life. And you don’t necessarily have to be openly gay, or a gay at all.
The harassment hits everybody who is speaking out in favour of gays, everybody who looks like they might be gay, and everybody who does not conform to the standards of a “real man” or a “real woman”.
On Wednesday, the same day as Channel 4’s Dispatches programme aired, Klimova was charged under Putin’s new gay propaganda laws.
She has been told her court hearing will be in a couple of weeks, and she faces a large fine. Lena was pursued after Children 404 was investigated by Vitaly Milonov, a prominent politician in St. Petersburg.
“I am depressed. I feel very sad, hurt and bitter. LGBT people are experiencing harsh oppression: they are living in fear, they fear being fired, being beaten up, being killed just without any reason. In Russia such harassment isn’t considered hate crime. It is terribly frightening.”
Despite pledging to remove the violent content and deleting the relevant accounts, five days after the Guardian’s enquiry only one video had been removed, turning a blind eye to the thousands of videos still hosted on VK;men looking into the camera with their eyes full of fear, while members of Occupy Paedophilia grab them by their necks and punch them, and Zigunova laughs.
Religion Against Homosexuality
I have found that there are a lot of religions, especially devout American christians, that are against homosexuals.
In particular, Westboro's Baptist Church have particularly strong views against homosexuals..
(Found on Wikipedia)
The Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) is an American unaffiliated Baptist church known for its extreme ideologies, especially thoseagainst gay people.[2][3] The church is widely described as a hate group[4] and is monitored as such by the Anti-Defamation Leagueand Southern Poverty Law Center. It is headed by Fred Phelps and consists primarily of members of his large family;[5] in 2011, the church stated that it had about 40 members.[1] The church is headquartered in a residential neighborhood on the west side ofTopeka about three miles (5 km) west of the Kansas State Capitol. Its first public service was held on the afternoon of November 27, 1955.[6]
The church has been involved in actions against gay people since at least 1991, when it sought a crackdown on homosexual activity at Gage Park six blocks northwest of the church.[7] In addition to conducting anti-gay protests at military funerals, the organization pickets other celebrity funerals and public events that are likely to get it media attention.[8] Protests have also been held against Jews and some protests have included WBC members stomping on the American flag.
While being filmed by documentary maker Louis Theroux, they picketed a local appliance store because it sold Swedish vacuum cleaners, which the church viewed as being supportive of gay people because of Swedish prosecution of Åke Green, a pastor critical of homosexuality.[29]
The church has picketed, or threatened to picket, productions of The Laramie Project, a play based on the murder of Matthew Shepard, whose funeral they also picketed.[30][31]
On January 25, 2004, Phelps picketed five churches (three Catholic and two Episcopalian) and the Federal Courthouse for what he said was their part in legitimizing same-sex marriages in Iowa. A community response was to hold counter-protests and a multifaith service in the municipal auditorium.[32] On January 15, 2006, Westboro members protested a memorial for 2006 Sago Mine disaster victims, claiming that the mining accident was God's revenge against America for its tolerance of homosexuality.[33]
The church is noted for its anti-homosexual rhetoric[82][83] and runs numerous web sites such as GodHatesFags.com, GodHatesAmerica.com, and others expressing condemnation of homosexuality.
The group bases its work on the belief expressed by its best known slogan and the address of its primary web site, God Hates Fags, asserting that every tragedy in the world is linked to homosexuality—specifically society's increasing tolerance and acceptance of the so-calledhomosexual agenda. The group maintains that God hates those who engage in homosexual activity above all other kinds of "sinners"[84] and that homosexuality should be a capital crime.[85]
Their views on homosexuality are partially based on teachings found in the Old Testament, specifically Leviticus 18:22 and 20:13, which they interpret to mean that homosexual behavior is detestable, and that homosexuals should be put to death.[84]
Some members of the Baptist Church were also seen on Russell Brand's talk show, where Russell made quite the fool out of them at times..
You can find the documentary The Most Hated Family in America with Louis Theroux here: http://documentarystorm.com/the-most-hated-family-in-america/
Here are a few of the most shocking and disturbing Westboro Baptist Church quotes.
"God hates fags."
"Santa is a fag."
"Lesbians are just female fags. God hates them, too."
"Thank God for Katrina."
"Thank God for dead soldiers."
"Just like the priests, Santa will rape your children at night."
"We preach hate because the Bible preaches hate."
"Every human, at the moment of birth, utterly deserves to go straight to Hell."
"Abortion is murder. God hates baby-killers."
"A a fag is a Jew, pretty much."
"All in all, if you're claiming to be a Christian, but you deny what the Bible says about God and His hatred of all workers of iniquity, then you're dealing with the scripture in a whorish manner. "
(The reason for the tsunamis in 2004) "The lands affected by this judgment from God aren't just full of idolatry; we're talking about places that are hot spots where American businessmen travel for the express purpose of fornicating with young Asian children."
(Regarding the 2008 Chinese earthquakes) "We pray for many more earthquakes to kill many more thousands of impudent and ungrateful Chinese Communists""
(Regarding American soldiers) "These turkeys are not heroes. They are lazy, incompetent idiots looking for jobs because they're not qualified for honest work."
"You'll eat your babies."
"The Jews killed Jesus. That fact will never change. They have never repented, and they try to bully into silence anyone who states that fact."
"God hates Israel."
"Jews are the real Nazis."
"Obama is the Antichrist."
"Mohammed was a demon-possessed whoremonger and pedophile who contrived a 300-page work of Satanic fiction: The Quran! Like America's own whoremonger and pedophile wangled his own hokey Book of Mormon!"
"If you would STOP worshipping false gods, being a fag would not be a complex matter."
"Italy is a nation of mobster-breeding perverts."
"Priests rape boys. They are all going to Hell."
"It's a sin to pray for America."
"Hurricane Rita is an answer to the prayers of the suffering saints of Westboro Baptist Church."
"This is the hypocritical, fag-infested, fag-run United States of America and we're supposed to respect that fag rag flag?"
""The red on that flag stands for fag rectal blood."
"The Roman Catholic churc is the largest, most well-funded and organized pedophile group in the history of man"
...All of this from a "Christian" group that is determined to spread the Hate of God. Unfortunately, none of this is a joke. You can read more of Westboro's frightening nonsense at GodHatesFags.com.
I think it's quite interesting how campaigners from the Westboro Baptist Church have gone about creating their "hate signs". The colour schemes reflect rainbows signified with Gay Clubs, or use of the American flag colours.. We could possibly create a campaign poster in a pastiche style of these signs??
Decriminalising Being Gay
Research Into Laws Against Homosexuals...
Very useful website full of stats:
Death Penalty in Nigeria:
Death Penalty in Zambia:
Uganda Signed Bill for 14 year imprisonment for homosexuals:
State.gov Documents on Legal Acts Within Uganda
On April 3, a court in Iganga District remanded Richard Nyeusi Mulwo, deputy head teacher of Bulumwaki Primary School, for trial in the High Court for engaging in homosexual activities. At year’s end the trial was pending.
On September 13, police in Kampala arrested British theatre producer David Edwards Cecil for staging a play police alleged promoted homosexual activity. The play was reportedly performed in several venues around Kampala in August, despite an injunction by the Media Council, the government media regulatory body.
On September 17, a court charged Cecil with violating lawful orders issued under section 117 of the penal code and for staging a play while it was under review by the Media Council. Cecil was released on bail, and his case was pending at year’s end.
LGBT persons were subject to societal harassment, discrimination, intimidation, and threats to their well-being, and were denied access to health services. Discriminatory practices also prevented local LBGT NGOs from registering with the NGO Board and obtaining official status (see section 2.b.).
On March 15, four LGBT activists filed a petition in the High Court accusing the minister of ethics and integrity and the attorney general of illegally closing a workshop organized by Freedom and Roam Uganda in Entebbe on February 14.
Hearing of the case was pending at year’s end.
The government blocked meetings organized by LGBT groups. For example, on June 18, police closed a skills-building workshop for LGBT human rights defenders organized by the East and Horn of African Human Rights Defenders Project (EHAHRDP) in Kampala. Police detained workshop participants, guests, and hotel staff for more than three hours. Two EHAHRDP staff and two workshop participants also were briefly detained but later released.
On October 1, a local news station broadcast a video of a transgender individual being harassed and humiliated at a local police station in Kisenye District. The video showed police officers aggressively touching, taunting, and forcibly undressing the individual, whom the police subsequently paraded before a crowd of onlookers. Authorities did not file charges against the police officers; they released the transgender individual without charge.
There were no developments regarding the Constitutional Court’s deliberations on a petition filed in 2009 challenging the constitutionality of a law that prevents the Equal Opportunities Commission from investigating “any matter involving behavior which is considered to be (i) immoral and socially harmful or (ii) unacceptable by the majority of the cultural and social communities in Uganda.”
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