The country I’d like to do my reporting on is Russia. I’d like to bring more awareness to the homophobia that has been occurring in this country since January 2013 when President Vladimir Putin signed a bill that, “a law outlawing propaganda of “nontraditional sexual relations,” thus enacting a federal ban that violates the constitutionally guaranteed rights of a community he is sworn to protect.” This has led to the migration of Russians arriving to the United States seeking either asylum or are refugees from their country.
Nonetheless the LGBTQ+ community has been supported by countries like Armenia and Belarus. Other countries have expressed their homophobia through different legislative laws. Organizations in New York have created support groups for those in the LGTBQ community in NYC that are asylum and refugees who are in need of mental health support, peer support groups, health and wellness programs and emergency cash.
One of the main goals for this coverage is to shed a more larger issue on the LGBTQ+ community now that Ukraine and Russia are at war while also many Russian’s not wanting to be apart of the war but also having to flee due to their rights in the LGBTQ+ community. The languages that are spoken in Russia are a variety of them while they also share a Russian Orthodox Christian religion.