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‘Anti-LGBTQ propaganda’ ban follows in the footsteps of Russia and Uganda. Kazakhstan President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev (Noushad Thekkayil photo courtesy of Euractiv / NurPhoto / Getty Images) A bill to ban so-called LGBTQ propaganda won approval from the Kazakhstan Senate yesterday, which sent it on to President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev for his signature, which he is expected to give. The bill would …

Kazakhstan Senate stalls bill that lower house approved unanimously. Almaty, the largest city in Kazakhstant (Photo courtesy of Expedia.com) An anti-LGBTQ+ bill has stalled in Kazakhstan, but apparently not because Kazakh legislators are concerned about LGBTQ+ rights. The bill had unanimously passed the lower chamber of parliament on Nov. 12, but the Senate announced the bill had been postponed “indefinitely” …

The law ‘institutionalizes hostility’ against Kazakhstan’s LGBT community, activists say Rainbow flag symbolizes LGBT rights. (Photo courtesy of the Kazakhstan International Bureau for Human Rights and Rule of Law) The parliament of the Central Asian nation of Kazakhstan has passed a law that bans so-called “LGBT propaganda.” It’s the latest Russia-aligned country to pass such a law after Russia, Georgia, Belarus, and Kyrgyzstan, …