LGBT rights in Lugansk
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| Status | Illegal[1] |
| Penalty | Maximum of five years imprisonment or corrective labour for a term of two to four years[1] |
| Gender identity | - |
| Military | - |
| Discrimination protections | - |
| Family rights | |
| Recognition of relationships | - |
| Adoption | - |
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) persons in the Lugansk People's Republic face legal challenges not experienced by non-LGBT residents. Lugansk, along with Donetsk, are the only two European countries to criminalize same-sex sexual activities.[1]
Law regarding same-sex sexual activity[edit]
Russian Empire[edit]
In 1716, Tsar Peter the Great enacted a ban on male same-sex sexual activity in the armed forces. The prohibition on sodomy in the armed forces was part of a larger reform movement designed to modernize Russia and efforts to extend a similar ban to the civilian population were rejected until 1835.[2]
In 1832,[3] Tsar Nicholas I added Article 995 to the criminal code, which outlawed muzhelozhstvo. While this could have created a ban on all forms of same-sex sexual activity between men, the courts tended to limit its interpretation to anal sex between men, thus making private acts of oral sex between consenting men legal. The law did not explicitly address female same-sex sexual activities. Persons convicted under Article 995 were to be stripped of their rights and relocated to Siberia for four to five years.[4]
Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic[edit]
When the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic was created in 1919, the criminal code of the republic did not criminalize same-sex sexual relationships between men. On March 7, 1934, same-sex sexual relationships between men were criminalized thought the entire Soviet Union.[5]
Ukraine[edit]
In 1991, Ukraine became the first former Soviet republic to decriminalize same-sex sexual relationships between men.[6]
Lugansk People's Republic[edit]
On September 26, 2014, the Parliament of the Lugansk People's Republic adopted a law that would "criminal liability for homosexuality". The law states that "intercourse between individuals of the same sex is punishable by deprivation of liberty for up to five years or corrective labour for a term of two to four years." It is unclear when the law goes into effect.[1][7]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Is the self-proclaimed LPR introduced "criminal liability for homosexuality"?
- ↑ Healey, Daniel (2004, last updated 19 July 2005). "Russia". glbtq: An Encyclopedia of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Culture. glbtq, Inc. Retrieved 21 May 2009. Check date values in:
|date=(help) - ↑ "Where is it illegal to be gay?". BBC News. Retrieved 11 February 2014.
- ↑ Duberman 1989, p.349.
- ↑ Building Justice in Post-transition Europe: Processes of Criminalisation
- ↑ Ukraine takes aim against 'gay propaganda'
- ↑ Ukraine Rebels Love Russia, Hate Gays, Threaten Executions
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