Then, in November the Russian parliament extended a 2013 anti-LGBTQ law that criminalized “propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations” to all age groups. “Do we want to have here, in our country, in Russia, ‘parent number one, number two, number three,’” he said, “instead of mother and father? Do we want our schools to impose on our children, from their earliest days in school, perversions that lead to degradation and extinction?” More than half a year later he once again interweaved the issue into his annexation declaration about four occupied Ukrainian regions the war in Ukraine, he suggested, was needed to protect Russian children from “perversions” and to secure a heteronormative future for Russia. 24 last year, he digressed to talk about how the West was trying to destroy “traditional values” and impose LGBTQ attitudes that he derided as degrading and contrary to human nature. As Russian President Vladimir Putin announced Ukraine’s invasion on Feb.
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