The Yale Law Journal

Ryan Thoreson

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From Child Protection to Children’s Rights: Rethinking Homosexual Propaganda Bans in Human Rights Law

Ryan Thoreson

On June 29, 2013, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed into law a bill prohibiting “propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations among minors,” including supportive statements about gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender persons.1 The legislation, which included fines of up to on…