Event overview
Dmitrii Tolkachev from the Higher School of Economics, Moscow, joins the Goldsmiths Centre for Queer History for this talk on LGBTQ issues in Russia.
In 2013 the Russian federal law "For the Purpose of Protecting Children from Information Advocating for a Denial of Traditional Family Values” was adopted. Even before this law successfully passed the Russian parliament, however, there had been a number of ‘prohibition of homosexual propaganda’ attempts at the regional level. The law has been controversial with debate focusing on different assumptions about private life (i.e. sexuality). It is possible to evaluate the direct results of the law through court decisions (outputs), however we do not know how citizens' behavior has changed (outcomes), including their assumptions about homosexuality, and how it affects the policy (impact). Attempts to regulate citizens’ private lives through the invention of ‘traditional values’ comes into conflict with existing legal norms regulating human rights. So what is the level of synergy between outputs, outcomes and impacts of the “propaganda law"? Moreover, if there is a lack of correlation between these different types of results, how can these inconsistencies can be explained?
Dmitrii Tolkachev is a PhD candidate at the Higher School of Economics, Moscow researching LGBTI Rights in Russia and Europe. His research focuses on sexual politics, queer theory, policy evaluation, and anti-corruption policy.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 22 Oct 2019 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm |
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