Canadian charity Rainbow Railroad reports that it has helped 35 gay and bisexual Chechen men travel to parts of the world where they are safer. Earlier this year, the Chechen government began an organized campaign of persecution against gay and bisexual men, imprisoning more than a hundred and killing at least 26. … Read more
This FAQ is a revised version of a post I wrote in April about the persecution and killing of gay men in Chechnya and efforts to help them. A message I received today reminded me that there’s still a lot of education to be done. The message was along the lines of “Russia is full of hackers and scammers, so we can’t trust things based in Russia. Therefore Westerners should only support Western charities.” If everyone followed that reasoning, we’d have 40 more dead gay Chechens on our hands right now.
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