{"id":2356,"date":"2016-01-24T13:56:50","date_gmt":"2016-01-24T19:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=2356"},"modified":"2016-01-24T13:56:50","modified_gmt":"2016-01-24T19:56:50","slug":"russia-rejects-bill-that-would-have-made-coming-out-illegal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/2356","title":{"rendered":"Russia rejects bill that would have made coming out illegal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By John Mack Freeman<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Russian State Duma has rejected a bill that would have criminalized coming out by GLBT people. Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rferl.org\/content\/russia-parliament-rejects-antihomosexual-expression-bill\/27494613.html\">Radio Free Europe<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Russian State Duma Committee on Constitutional Legislation and State-Building has declined to endorse a controversial draft bill that would introduce fines and arrests for people who publicly express their homosexuality.<\/p>\n<p>The parliamentary committee on January 18 advised that the Duma unanimously vote against the bill in the event it reached a first reading.<\/p>\n<p>The bill, initiated by lawmakers from the Communist Party and condemned as discriminatory by human rights activists, called for fines of up to 5,000 rubles (about $65) for publicly expressing &#8220;nontraditional sexual orientation.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By John Mack Freeman The Russian State Duma has rejected a bill that would have criminalized coming out by GLBT people. Via Radio Free Europe: The Russian State Duma Committee on Constitutional Legislation and State-Building has declined to endorse a controversial draft bill that would introduce fines and arrests for people who publicly express their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":2203,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,58],"tags":[422,594,593,68],"class_list":["post-2356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carousel","category-glbt-news","tag-coming-out","tag-glbt-legislation","tag-glbt-right","tag-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}