“I am not an outcast. However, I do not feel like being accepted. I still exist. I am a litmus test of the existing problem”.

 

Sounds like an impassioned speech of a social drama character. So does it. These words belong to a real person. One of those who have to flee from Russia because of their sexual orientation.

 

There are still regions in Russia where, in the twenty-first century, people are tortured and killed among others for belonging to LGBT community. Even in Moscow LGBT+ are subjected to numerous attacks although 45% of Russians say that they have never heard about  such acts of violence.

 

Nearly half of Russian citizens, to be exact  47%,  think that LGBT people in Russia should enjoy the same rights as all other citizens. However, only 3% have reported that they view gays as good citizens. It is hardly surprising, given the fact that even the LGBT in Russia is homophobic; the information is proved not only by statistics but also by our heros. One of them, for instance, “got through all the stages of the inner homophobia” and another one can not stand gays, who propagandize maleness due to rejection of their own femininity. 

 

In the USA, all characters do not feel like outsiders because of belonging to LGBT+. As their experience has shown,  society in America is more tolerant than that in Russia. Nonetheless, they feel “like emigrants”. The most challenging aspect for them was to transform themselves and realize that it is possible to look as one wants although, during their life in Russia, they had to follow the dress-code that did not promote LGBT.

 

We all are aware about the consequences of LGBT-propoganda in Russia. Therefore, a question arises: how is it possible that in the very same year of 2013, when Australian scientists grew artificial tissues of the human brain, the Russian government passed a law that provides for the punishment of those who promote non traditional sexual lifestyles to minors. This is quite shocking, to say the least.