Yeah mostly because we’re an effective internal target that will always exist and is capable of hiding. Authoritarians notice this and declare us the cause of society’s ills to take heat off themselves.
Scapegoating minority groups is nothing new for Russia. They’ve done it to Jews and Kulaks and many more. LGBT groups also tend to be on the left, which far-right groups hate.
I also believe tolerance of same-sex relationships tends to change due to population pressures. Russia needs population after they needlessly sacrificed so many young men in Ukraine. They want to up their fertility rate, so they criminalize and delegitimize those who enjoy non-reproductive sex; so anyone that isn’t a Kinsey 6 is coerced to find a partner of the opposite sex.
Yeah mostly because we’re an effective internal target that will always exist and is capable of hiding. Authoritarians notice this and declare us the cause of society’s ills to take heat off themselves.
Scapegoating minority groups is nothing new for Russia. They’ve done it to Jews and Kulaks and many more. LGBT groups also tend to be on the left, which far-right groups hate.
I also believe tolerance of same-sex relationships tends to change due to population pressures. Russia needs population after they needlessly sacrificed so many young men in Ukraine. They want to up their fertility rate, so they criminalize and delegitimize those who enjoy non-reproductive sex; so anyone that isn’t a Kinsey 6 is coerced to find a partner of the opposite sex.