okay, since no one’s talking about this, i will.
i also apologize for my bad english. i’m ukrainian and writing this in a rush.
anyway.
TW: murder, death threats, homophobia, transphobia.
the russian LGBT community is in deep shit right now.
a russian LGBT rights activist elena grigoryevna was recently found dead with 8 stab wounds near her home.
the police didn’t do anything about it, despite how many people called out for help.
there’s also a russian anti LGBT group called “pila” (“chainsaw”). a couple of months prior they published a hit list of LGBT activists from russia. elena was on the list. and so are other people who are related to the community in some ways.
they stated that they prepared some “cruel gifts” to the people on the list. the beauty blogger andrew petrov (whose name is also on it) recently made a post for his followers that shed more light on the situation.
another activist, andrew shituhin is a victim of this organization. the addresses of his family, along with other personal information got published on the website. earlier he got kicked out of his university. he immigrated to netherlands, although recently he came to a town near moskow to live for a bit. his friend, zhenia svetski, is aimed at by this organization. in a threatening email “pila” stated that he will be killed before august if andrew doesn’t help him to immigrate to netherlands.
all i’m asking for is to spread this post so that more people from other countries are aware of the situation.
also, i’m encouraging russian folks to add more information to this post in case if i missed anything. thank you.
Thank you, @hasturlavista
I’m gonna add a personal note here if you don’t mind.
This shit carousel is widespread as fuck.
The “Pila” already have members in Chechnya, Dagestan, Bashkortostan, Tatarstan, Udmurtia, Samara Oblast, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Chelyabinsk Oblast, Saratov Oblast, Orenburg Oblast, Perm Krai and Stavropol Krai. Saint Petersburg also seems to have become their “hunting ground”. They’re planning to expand their activity even further and launch the persecution of the lgbt community in many more areas of Russia including Moscow itself.
They’ve basically admitted to nursing a wet dream of tracking down and murdering gay and trans people over the entire country. They may as well emerge in Ukraine and Belarus, according to their own statements. They’re talking about stuffing people with tranquilizers, kidnapping and taking them to Chechnya. They’re claiming that they’re protected by law.
The police won’t help us. They’ve been doing their best to ignore us for years at this point. The state has been doing its best to pretend that we don’t exist.
Get it, guys: the state has passed the propaganda law to silence the lgbt, yet does nothing to silence the homophobes. The state has told us to do whatever we want “behind closed doors”, yet just recently the police have stormed the apartment of a same-sex couple (and their two adopted children) without any sensible reason. The state has basically made us go into hiding so that we “won’t disrupt the traditional values”. And when we did that, they immediately started searching for us. Lmfao.
Apparently, the traditional russian values are so delicate that they are disrupted by the sole fact that gays exist.
Now, the number of actual active “gayhunters” equals about a couple of hundred people. But the number of those who in one way or another support “Pila” is immense. According to the most recent surveys, more than half of Russian population is hostile or disdainful towards the lgbt community. Twitter users have launched a respective hashtag #ЗащититеЛюдейОтПилы (#ProtectPeopleFromPila), and replies under the most popular posts are already being filled with homophobic slurs and death threats. Those who send such messages do not bother to give any reasoning behind their point of view. That’s because they have no reasoning. There can’t be any reasoning. We’re simply surrounded by stupid, nonsensical, stubborn and evil people who are well aware of their impunity.
And that’s while gay activists who defend the simplest right for the lgbt to be valid members of society get brutally murdered.
Russia – our holy nation, am I right?
I rarely post on tumblr these days, but I just can’t stay silent during this nation-wide fuck-up. I ask those few followers that I have to spread this information further. The world should know.
If you want to help, you can donate to the Russian LGBT network.
(full link: https://lgbtnet.org/en/help-us-so-we-can-help-others)
Honestly I have no words anymore.
