Proposed legislation with the intention of banning Russian people from coming out as homosexual has been rejected by a Russian State Duma committee.
The proposed legislation which was introduced by Communist Party MPs Ivan Nikitchuk and Nikolai Arefyev, would have seen homosexuals being punished for “the public expression of non-traditional sexual relations” by up to 15 days imprisonment and a fine of 5,000 rubles.
According to RBC News, Dmitry Vyatkin who is the Deputy Chairman of the committee on constitutional legislation and state-building, said the proposed legislation was primarily rejected “due to the fact that from a formal legal perspective, the bill was illiterate,” as opposed to its homophobic, discriminative and hateful intent.
