Yelena Mizulina, who successfully lobbied for Russia’s 2012 “gay propaganda” law, has emerged as a chilling barometer of the lengths Vladimir Putin will go to squash LGBT+ rights. (Nikolai GalkinTASS via Getty Images) Russia’s cabinet has rejected amendments to the country’s Family Code which would not only have banned marriage equality and same-sex adoption (which
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Poland’s staunchly anti-LGBT+ President Andrzej Duda has vowed to ban same-sex couples from adopting children. Duda, who has expressed his opposition to LGBT+ rights on numerous occasions in recent weeks, made the comments at a campaign rally in southern Poland today (July 4). Speaking at the campaign event, Duda said he will put forward an