A judge in Russia has ruled that a man “committed propaganda of non-traditional sexual preferences” for posting a favorable review of a mini skirt with purported pictures of him modeling the dress. He was ordered to be deported, Mediazona reports.
Gulomova Islomzhona Numonzhon was found guilty of posting “information aimed at forming non-traditional sexual attitudes, the attractiveness of non-traditional sexual relations, a distorted idea of the social equivalence of traditional and non-traditional sexual relations and preferences,” after he posted a review of the mini-skirt on Russia’s largest online retailer.
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“Beautiful skirt! Hides not only the flaws of the figure, but even the fact that I’m a guy,” Gulomova wrote, which the judge cited as evidence of “openly demonstrating the attractiveness of non-traditional sexual attitudes.”
According to court documents, Gulomova is a foreign national. His country of origin was redacted.
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Evidence of the poster’s crimes, uploaded to the popular retail site Wildberries last September, was discovered in the Russian city of Tula two weeks ago. At the court hearing, the man “admitted guilt in committing the administrative offense.”
The judge cited Russia’s “child propaganda” laws before meting out his punishment.
The law “obliges the state authorities of the Russian Federation to take measures to protect children from information, propaganda and agitation that is harmful to their health, moral and spiritual development, including from information of a pornographic nature, from information that promotes or demonstrates non-traditional sexual relations and (or) preferences, from information that promotes pedophilia, from information that can cause children to want to change their gender,” the judge wrote.
“Family, motherhood, and childhood, in their traditional, ancestral understanding, represent the values that ensure the continuous succession of generations and serve as a prerequisite for the preservation and development of the multinational people of the Russian Federation, and therefore require special protection from the state,” he continued.
The judge described Gulomova’s administrative deportation as “the only alternative.”
“The dissemination of beliefs and preferences concerning sexual orientation and specific forms of sexual relations should not infringe upon the dignity of others, call into question public morality as understood in established Russian society, or otherwise contradict the foundations of the legal order adopted in the Russian Federation and enshrined in the relevant provisions of the Constitution of the Russian Federation and federal laws, in particular the Family Code of the Russian Federation,” the judge wrote.
“Taking into account the nature of the offense, I consider the need to apply the form of forced deportation from the Russian Federation to a foreign citizen to be the only possible way to achieve the goals of administrative punishment,” he decided.
Gulomova was ordered to held in detention by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia before “forced deportation” within 90 days.
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s campaign against “degenerate” Western values in the form of LGBTQ+ “propaganda” began in earnest with passage of the country’s first “child propaganda” law in 2013, followed by successive expansions to cover virtually every depiction of sexual orientation and non-binary gender identity in the media and society contrary to “traditional” Russian values.
In 2023, the country’s Supreme Court deemed the “international LGBT movement” an “extremist organization.”
In 2026 alone, Russia has charged streamers for illegally distributing the gay hockey drama Heated Rivalry, raided an LGBTQ+ book imprint, fined a man for posting a photo of drag queen, banned a scientific from writing about same-sex animal behavior, and designated multiple LGBTQ+ rights groups as “extremist organizations.”
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