The Iron Closet
This 2013 report exposes the licensed vigilantism from Russia's 'gay propaganda laws'. We revisit this short in light of troubling reports of mass arrests and murder of gay men in Chechnya.
Homosexuals lured into the hands of vigilante groups can't expect help from the police. If caught the victims, not the torturers, are arrested. "The objective is to leave them publicly disgraced", Yekaterina Zigunova boasts. The law has left homosexuals living in fear. Even an expression that you believe in equal rights could lead to arrest. "Theoretically it's possible to start hauling us into the police station today", says Masha Gessen.
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