Russia's No. 1 tennis player Daria Kasatkina comes out as gay

In June, Nadezhda Karpova, a star of Russian female football, also made a coming out. This is how she explained why she decided to come out publicly after living in Spain for five years:

“I’m no longer afraid of raising certain topics. I know no one will judge me for living with a girl. Being a lesbian isn’t stigmatized here. A coach once asked me: ‘Is your girlfriend coming to the match?’ And I thought, wow. In Russia, people keep asking you if you have a boyfriend. Here, they ask if you have a partner – pareja.”

On July 18, Russian parliamentarians proposed a bill prohibiting the propaganda of homosexual relationships and the negation of family values. The bill is available in State Duma’s digital database. For the moment, it is only forbidden to spread the “propaganda of homosexuality” among minors.