The authorities will do everything to make sure the World Cup passes trouble-free, but when it does the discrimination, the homophobia and the laws will remain,’ says LGBT Sport Federation
For Alexander Agapov, 35, leader of the Russian LGBT Sport Federation, the legislature has not generally been an eager safeguard of LGBT rights. He was beaten by football fans as he sat tight for a transport – and how no appropriate examination took after. He reviews the weights sorting out LGBT football games in local urban areas, just to see them scratched off at last. He reviews the telephone calls from security administrations, and various other such episodes.
Be that as it may, as indicated by Mr Agapov, the specialists have apparently experienced an aggregate change in time for this current summer’s World Cup. Under the careful gaze of Fifa, Russia’s officials are, evidently, now completely joined to the standards of resistance and non-separation. For one month in any event, Russia’s “conventional qualities” are being put to the other side, and the most poisonous translations of a 2013 law prohibiting “purposeful publicity of non-customary sexual relations among minors” overlooked.
The possibility of a gay-accommodating rivalry occurring in Russia would as a rule incite wails of criticism from its ultraconservative voices. Be that as it may, not this time.