Russian-style anti-LGBTQ legislation advances in Kazakhstan to ban promotion of “non-traditional sexual orientation”

Almaty, Kazakhstan — Kazakhstan’s parliament on Wednesday handed a invoice to ban the promotion of what it calls “non-traditional sexual orientation” in public areas and the media, a copycat of Russia’s anti-LGBTQ legal guidelines.    

Rights teams described the measure, which must be authorized by the higher home, as discriminatory and stated it could improve the vulnerability of LGBTQ individuals within the Central Asian Muslim-majority nation, an ally of Russia.