Gay rights have been one of the most controversial public policy issues across the world. There have been many conversations regarding how to handle such an issue as gay rights. In many instances, it is a very difficult process to go through, as many other controversial issues arise as the decision progresses. This can create bad backlash in the form of protests or riots or it may result in the support of the people with how it is being handled by their government. Furthermore, there could be no response whatsoever because the government does not acknowledge it as an issue and the people keep silent directly in front of power. China and Russia are two out of many countries that have had to face the decision of creating public policy in order
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In the Song Dynasty, homosexuality had been shunned by the Chinese government, most notably only towards homosexual males. Strictly only including the act of “young males who act as prostitutes with a fine of 100 blows with a heavy bamboo and a fine of 50,000 cash.” , furthers the principle of this matter. Later on in the Ming Dynasty, the first statue prohibiting same-sex intercourse was enacted in the Jiajing era, and in the Qing Dynasty the first statues in legal code contained the term ji jian, which was homosexual intercourse, and contained the punishment of 100 blows of bamboo with a stay in jail. Only in 1912, a lengthy 233 years later, “explicit prohibitions of ‘consenting jijian (sodomy)’ were abolished in China” when it became the Republic of China, but a new discrimination towards homosexuality was put into place as the Communist Party in the People’s Republic of China. It was dubbed as hooliganism in 1979, only to abolish this law in 1997 to decriminalize it, furthermore leading to homosexuality being declassified as a mental disorder in the Chinese Society of Psychiatry. Within Russia’s history regarding gay rights, a trend can be seen with whether the Russian government supports homosexuality or not. Starting with the Russian Empire, homosexuality was strongly seen as wrong. Being punished by authorities, banning homosexual males in the armed forces (eventually spreading this …show more content…
The majority populous in Russia has been socially conservative in saying that homosexuality is wrong and should not be accepted, creating a very large gap of outward support for the minority LGBT community in Russia with even some psychiatrists stating that they still believe homosexuality is a mental illness. There have also been many hate crimes against homosexuals, with known homophobic activist groups coupled with many national and regional laws banning the promotion of homosexuality, bisexuality and transgenderism, and employment discrimination if it is found out that an individual is homosexual (termination). The Russian government has been heavily focused on limiting gay rights in their country. There have been countless battles on the right to hold pride parades in Moscow and with Russia being an illiberal democracy, political parties, notably the Libertarian Party of Russia, being against the government ban on gay propaganda among minors, calling it a violation of people’s right to freedom of speech. Even though Russia has tried to create public policy in order to halt the gay rights, it has done the complete opposite because it has given attention to just that. Ever since the gay propaganda bill in 2013 was passed by the State
In the Song Dynasty, homosexuality had been shunned by the Chinese government, most notably only towards homosexual males. Strictly only including the act of “young males who act as prostitutes with a fine of 100 blows with a heavy bamboo and a fine of 50,000 cash.” , furthers the principle of this matter. Later on in the Ming Dynasty, the first statue prohibiting same-sex intercourse was enacted in the Jiajing era, and in the Qing Dynasty the first statues in legal code contained the term ji jian, which was homosexual intercourse, and contained the punishment of 100 blows of bamboo with a stay in jail. Only in 1912, a lengthy 233 years later, “explicit prohibitions of ‘consenting jijian (sodomy)’ were abolished in China” when it became the Republic of China, but a new discrimination towards homosexuality was put into place as the Communist Party in the People’s Republic of China. It was dubbed as hooliganism in 1979, only to abolish this law in 1997 to decriminalize it, furthermore leading to homosexuality being declassified as a mental disorder in the Chinese Society of Psychiatry. Within Russia’s history regarding gay rights, a trend can be seen with whether the Russian government supports homosexuality or not. Starting with the Russian Empire, homosexuality was strongly seen as wrong. Being punished by authorities, banning homosexual males in the armed forces (eventually spreading this …show more content…
The majority populous in Russia has been socially conservative in saying that homosexuality is wrong and should not be accepted, creating a very large gap of outward support for the minority LGBT community in Russia with even some psychiatrists stating that they still believe homosexuality is a mental illness. There have also been many hate crimes against homosexuals, with known homophobic activist groups coupled with many national and regional laws banning the promotion of homosexuality, bisexuality and transgenderism, and employment discrimination if it is found out that an individual is homosexual (termination). The Russian government has been heavily focused on limiting gay rights in their country. There have been countless battles on the right to hold pride parades in Moscow and with Russia being an illiberal democracy, political parties, notably the Libertarian Party of Russia, being against the government ban on gay propaganda among minors, calling it a violation of people’s right to freedom of speech. Even though Russia has tried to create public policy in order to halt the gay rights, it has done the complete opposite because it has given attention to just that. Ever since the gay propaganda bill in 2013 was passed by the State