{"id":26316,"date":"2020-07-13T19:19:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-13T16:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/russian-constitution-change-ends-hopes-for-same-sex-marriage\/"},"modified":"2020-07-13T19:19:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-13T16:19:00","slug":"russian-constitution-change-ends-hopes-for-same-sex-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/russian-constitution-change-ends-hopes-for-same-sex-marriage\/","title":{"rendered":"#Russian constitution change ends hopes for same-sex marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Russian constitution change ends hopes for same-sex marriage<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n ST. PETERSBURG, Russia \u2014 At the Lagutenko wedding in 2017, the couple exchanged vows, rings and kisses in front of friends and relatives, then took a traditional drive in a limousine, stopping at landmarks for photos.<\/p>\n

But because they were both women, the wedding wasn\u2019t legal in Russia.<\/p>\n

If Irina and Anastasia Lagutenko had any hopes they could someday officially be married in their homeland, the possibility vanished on July 1 when voters app<\/a>roved a package of constitutional amendments, one of them stipulating that marriage is only between a man and a woman.<\/p>\n

Unlike many LGBT people in Russia who keep low profiles because of pervasive enmity against nontraditional sexuality, they live openly as a same-sex couple with a 21-month-old boy, named Dorian, who was born to Irina.<\/p>\n

They lack and probably never will receive, those rights accorded to heterosexual couples. They won\u2019t be allowed to refuse to testify against their partner in court, they won\u2019t automatically inherit from each other and they can\u2019t see each other in hospitals that only allow visits by family members. Anastasia is not a legal guardian for Dorian and can\u2019t become one.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to have the same legal rights for the child,\u201d Anastasia told The Associated Press as Dorian played in her lap in their apartment.<\/p>\n

\u201cI planned this child. We went all the way of the pregnancy and the childbirth together and now, I am 100 percent, 200 percent involved in the process of upbringing and I consider him mine,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Although Russia decriminalized homosexuality decades ago, animosity against gays remains high. In 2012, the Moscow city government ordered that gay pride parades be banned for the next 100 years. The following year, the parliament unanimously passed a law forbidding \u201cpropaganda of nontraditional sexual relationships\u201d among minors.<\/p>\n

\"Irina,<\/img>
AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Attacks on the gay community persist. Last summer, the murder of Yelena Grigoryeva, an LGBT activist in St. Petersburg, made national headlines. Dozens of other activists received death threats from an obscure anti-gay group that claimed responsibility for the killing of Grigoryeva, who was stabbed repeatedly and showed signs of strangulation.<\/p>\n

In 2017, reports of extrajudicial arrests, torture and killings of gay men in the republic of Chechnya drew international condemnation.<\/p>\n

Last year, Andrei Vaganov and Yevgeny Yerofeyev, a couple raising two adopted children, had to flee Russia after a doctor reported them to police and authorities opened a criminal case. Adoption by same-sex couples is banned in Russia, but Vaganov had applied as a single father.<\/p>\n

Max Olenichev, a lawyer with the Coming Out gay rights group, said there are instances of tolerance by some courts. He said he has worked on seven custody cases in which judges refused to take away custody, saying that sexual orientation doesn\u2019t play a role in a child\u2019s upbringing.<\/p>\n

But he is concerned that the constitutional changes will encourage anti-gay views.<\/p>\n

Previously, \u201cthe state had to create equal opportunities for all people that live in Russia, both for LGBT people and non-LGBT people. When these amendments come into effect, then in fact the state will only support conservative values and promote them. LGBT people will be left behind,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur society really looks up to what the government does, so any kinds of public actions promoting homophobia, transphobia, biphobia, many people may perceive as a call for action. And we believe that there will be more hate speech and hate crimes and that LGBT people will suffer more violence,\u201d Olenichev said.<\/p>\n

Pyotr Tolstoy, a parliament member who supported the changes to the constitution, says Russia is \u201ca stronghold of traditionalism,\u201d reflecting the widespread view that the country is under siege from decadent foreign influences.<\/p>\n

The amendments will allow Russia \u201cnot to repeat the mistakes that exist in the West,\u201d he told the AP. \u201cThese mistakes, in my opinion, are fundamental when certain people \u2014 the LGBT community or certain race groups \u2014 are being given additional, special rights. More rights than the majority.\u201d<\/p>\n

President Vladimir Putin has rejected criticism of the constitutional amendments and the gay propaganda law.<\/p>\n

He said that in some countries, \u201ccriminal law provisions still exist under which people of nontraditional sexual orientation can be persecuted criminally, as it was in the Soviet Union. We don\u2019t have anything similar to that.\u201d Putin\u2019s remarks came after passage of the amendments package, which also allows him to seek two more terms in office.<\/p>\n

Tolstoy, who is a deputy speaker in the lower house of parliament and heads the Russian delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, rejects the idea that the provision outlawing same-sex marriages in the constitution promotes intolerance.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn our country, people are tolerant to all communities, as long they don\u2019t demand any special rights,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

For Irina and Anastasia Lagutenko, it is not about any kind of special rights. Anastasia says she just wants basic rights given to every parent \u2014 the \u201creassurance\u201d that she is \u201ca lawful parent, like parents in a traditional family.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you have a legal right for a child, you feel safe,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want people who think that families like ours don\u2019t exist to see us \u2014 (to see) that our family is complete, we have an excellent child and to accept this fact.\u201d Irina said. \u201cWe don\u2019t have a fear of living in the open and we won\u2019t hide, because we are the same people and we have the same rights.\u201d\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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