Jeux Olympiques d'hiver 2014 en Russie : la loi anti-gay s'appliquera aussi aux athlètes et aux spectateurs.

Celadon a écrit:Heureusement qu'il/elle n'est pas en Russie, lui/elle !!
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International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge said Friday he is “comforted” that Russia has agreed to respect the Olympic Charter’s ban on any kind of discrimination following its adoption of a law against gay “propaganda” that has sparked an international backlash.

But Rogge sidestepped a question on whether he was satisfied with the assurances the IOC received in a letter from Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak on Thursday saying Russia will not discriminate against homosexuals during the Winter Olympics in the Black Sea resort of Sochi in February.

“We have received strong oral but also written reassurances that there will be no discrimination for the people who will attend the games in Sochi,” Rogge told several reporters after addressing the U.N. General Assembly following its adoption of a resolution proclaiming April 6 as the International Day of Sport for Development and Peace.

“We are going to inform now all the national Olympic committees, and all the athletes who want to have clarity,” he said.

“But we have been comforted by the fact that the Russian Federation agrees to respect the Olympic Charter, but also the host city contract that was signed with the organizing committee,” he said. The contract requires Sochi to comply with the Olympic Charter.

Gays and lesbians make easy targets. Russia is socially liberal on adultery, abortion and divorce, but attitudes to homosexuality resemble those in the West of a generation ago. Soviet-era doublethink about sex is compounded by the role of male rape in prison culture, and the stigma attached to its victims: opushenny, “made low” or debased, for life.

Yet unease and distaste, more than overt hostility, have governed public attitudes. The existence of gays and lesbians is tolerated as long as they are not seen to “contaminate” the public square, says Tanya Lokshina of Human Rights Watch, though the near-invisibility of gays and lesbians has let prejudice and misunderstanding fester. A poll by the Levada Centre found that 80% of respondents do not have a single gay acquaintance. Alexander Smirnov, who was asked to quit his job at the Moscow mayor’s office after he came out in Afisha, an arts and culture magazine, says gays are seen as “alien people”.

Degtyarev also added that the lower house was working on the initiative to offer gays voluntary anonymous consultations with psychologists, psychotherapists and sexologists that would help them to “return to normal life and become heterosexuals, as are 95 to 99 percent of our citizens.”

The MP noted that he personally was not against gay pride events – as long as they did not violate the freshly-introduced ban on advertising of non-traditional sex relations to minors.

“The law presumes that they should not hold gay pride events when children can see them. But it is very possible to hold them at night, with flashlights and without amplifiers,” Degtyarev explained.

Droits des LGBT et droits humains en Russie : l’inter-LGBT interpelle le Président de la République Française et appelle à participer au rassemblement du 13 Septembre sur le Parvis des Droits de l’Homme.

L’Inter-LGBT appelle à participer le 13 septembre prochain à un rassemblement à Paris, sur le parvis des Droits de l’Homme, pour réclamer la fin du musèlement des défenseurs des droits humains et LGBT en Russie.Ce rassemblement est initié par l’association Acceptess-T. Il aura lieu à 19h, sur le parvis des Droits de l’Homme, métro Trocadéro : https://www.facebook.com/events/223162047834753/ ?fref=ts

Selon Le Monde, quinze athlètes nord-américains, parmi lesquels figurent le skieur Mike Janyk, l'ex-tennisman Andy Roddick, et le basketteur Steve Nash, se sont faits porte-drapeaux de deux organisations contestant les lois anti-gay en Russie.

Athlete Ally et All Out, deux associations qui luttent quotidiennement contre l'homophobie, accusent le CIO de ne pas respecter le sixième fondement de la charte olympique, à savoir que "toute forme de discrimination à l'égard d'un pays ou d'une personne fondée sur des considérations de race, de religion, de politique, de sexe ou autres est incompatible avec l'appartenance au Mouvement olympique".