The organizers of the All-Russian Andrei Demediev Poetry Prize have banned the participation of transgender people this year. According to APE-MPE, the organizing authority, government of the Tver region of Russia, wishes to protect the institution and their traditional values. Applications are open until the end of April from poets “regardless of citizenship, nationality, profession and place of residence,” but “transgender citizens” are expressly excluded, according to rules posted on the website of a local poetry organization. The organizers of the competition said that this initiative is an attempt “to protect the traditional Russian society ideas of marriage, family, motherhood, fatherhood and childhood”. Russia, under the leadership of President Vladimir Putin, has widely suppressed the rights of the LGBTI community, which it presents as a Western invention that threatens Russian traditional values. as extremist and those who support it as terrorists, thus opening […]
Source: News Beast
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