A growing number of LGBTQ+ Russians seek refuge from war,...

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% :Two years after marriage equality became law in Argentina in 2010, Congress approved a pioneering Gender Identity Law that codified rights for transgender individuals, including the ability to change names without the need for medical evaluations.
49% : It's a common sight in a country where same-sex marriage has been legal for more than a decade.
49% : But the couple, who got married shortly after arriving in Buenos Aires early last year, still remember the fear they felt when they first decided to hold hands in public after leaving Russia, which explicitly outlawed same-sex marriages in 2020.
44% : The same-sex couple who got married at a civil registry less than a month after moving to Buenos Aires, had changed their last names in Russia so they could pretend to be sisters.
44% : The same-sex couple who got married at a civil registry less than a month after moving to Buenos Aires, had changed their last names in Russia so they could pretend to be sisters.
43% : The same-sex couple are part of an increasing number of Russians from the LGBTQ+ community who left their homeland to escape discrimination and settled in Argentina, where same-sex marriage has been legal for more than a decade.
39% : Living openly as a member of the LGBTQ+ community in Russia has grown increasingly difficult over the past decade and the country explicitly outlawed same-sex marriages in 2020.
37% : Russia explicitly outlawed same-sex marriages in 2020.

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