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"Is my orientation immoral?"
Daniil Turovsky - about how a homosexual teacher was fired in St. Petersburg
In December, the leadership of the St. Petersburg school No. 565 for children with disabilities fired a homosexual teacher - with the formulation "For the immoral misconduct". The teacher’s resignation was achieved by the local activist Timur Isaev, who is engaged in “forced out”: he is looking for gays on social networks and reports about their sexual orientation to employers. Isaev claims that in a few years he thus “fired” 29 teachers throughout Russia. The special correspondent of Medusa Daniil Turovsky went to Petersburg to find out the details of this story.
On December 8, 2014, excited Anastasia (the name changed) - a music teacher at the St. Petersburg school No. 565 for children with disabilities - went into the director’s office.
She guessed what the conversation would be about. A week and a half before, the director of the school Stanislav Vinogradov and the deputy head of the administration of the Kirovsky district of St. Petersburg Irina Boytsov in the same office asked Anastasia to resign at their own free will. The day before, a local fighter with gays Timur Isaev caught the director on the street near the school - and handed him files with photographs of Anastasia, in which she hugs with her friend. Isaev demanded to dismiss the teacher for "immoral behavior." He sent the same files to the administration of the Kirovsky district.
In a letter transmitted to the director (Isaev posted it on his VKontakte page), he wrote: “You have an unhealthy and psychiatric deviations from the Lesbian teacher,” “This teacher shows herself openly on social networks as an immoral labia-boss and lives, according to the data from social networks, with the same unhealthy young lady. " “We strongly ask you to dismiss her under the article“ Office of a Non -compliance, ”Isaev concluded, without explaining whose interests he represents. Antije-activist referred to the law on gay propaganda (“On the protection of children from information causing harm to their health and development”) and indicated that “the denial of traditional family values is considered immoral and unacceptable for conducting this type of labor activity.”
In addition to the letter and photographs of the girl, Isaev attached a separate file with information about whom Anastasia is friends on social networks and which publics are signed; He paid special attention to the pages of Zemfira, Renata Litvinova and the Rain TV channel, which Anastasia noted as their favorite.
One and a half weeks ago, in the office of the school principal, says Anastasia, the representative of the administration said: "You belong to LGBT, you can not work with children." The official claimed that Anastasia would never be able to work as a teacher again.
However, Anastasia refused to quit of her own free will. That evening, she told about the incident to colleagues from the gay bar, where she earned a bartender. Friends invited her to appeal to the St. Petersburg LGBT organization “Exit” that protects the rights of gays.
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Find the “output” (its office is located near Nevsky Prospekt), if you don’t know the room number and you are not met, it’s impossible - there are not even signs above the door. The room is littered with rainbow stickers and brochures about gender identity and homophobia; On the walls-the poster of the LGBT-kinofilia "BOC ON BOC" and the poster "Our rights are more expensive than your gas."
The lawyer of the “exit” Dmitry Laptev what Timur Isaev is doing, calls “forced out”. The activist is looking for homosexuals on social networks and reports to employers about their sexual orientation. Because of Isaev, according to the “exit”, in recent months, two teachers have fired from St. Petersburg schools-a man and a woman, and a woman-twice: after the first dismissal, she got a job at another educational institution, but Isaev found her there too. Both dismissed do not reveal their names.
In addition, last winter, Isaev sought the dismissal of Ekaterina Bogach-the teacher of the Spanish at the St. Petersburg gymnasium No. 67, but the officials of the education department did not find any “gay propaganda” in the activities of the teacher.
In February 2014, Isaev pursued a ninth-grader from the Bryansk region on social networks, who spoke out in support of LGBT. After his appeals, the girl was registered with the commission on minors; On the street, she was attacked with a cry: "Direct, lesbian!" When the journalists paid attention to what was happening, the schoolgirl was removed from the register .
Timur Isaev himself told me on the phone that he had already achieved the dismissal of 29 geyev teachers from educational institutions throughout the country-and said that two teachers from Moscow schools would be fired next week, but he refused to tell details.
He does not hide his outright homophobia, on his VKontakte page the status has been hanging for a long time: “Russia is hell for pederasts, let them get used to it!” “Homosexuality is not a norm, this is a disease that is treated with hormonal therapy,” Isaev told me in February 2014. - As I pressed this evil spirits, I will crush, laws on my side. They say - “personal life” and so on, but when it appears on social networks, this goes from the category of personal information to public. ”
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In the "Exit" Anastasia was advised to take sick leave. When it ended, Anastophon went with a recorder with the director of the school Stanislav Vinogradov on December 8, 2014 (the audio recording is at the disposal of Medusa).
-Irina (meaning Irina Borisovna Boytsova, deputy head of the administration of the Kirovsky district of St. Petersburg- approx. "Medusa" ) asks for results. Let's honestly: what are we going to do? - says the director.
“I do not think this is the reason for the dismissal of mine,” Anastasia replies.
- Why do you think so, tell me. Why?
- And for what?
- There is an article for the commission of immoral acts. One source about you is Timur Isaev. He called me again now. He was told that my tooth was sick, and I could not speak.
- It seems to me that he is mentally abnormal.
- He is a psychopath, I agree. But I thought that only along his line was coming. And then Irina Borisovna calls and says that he will go to school. The deputy head will come to school, so wait for trouble. And she said that she has information about you. As far as I understand, the chain is this: the vice-governor of [St. Petersburg] Vladimir Vladimirovich [Kirillov] transferred information to the education committee, the committee transferred the Committee to the head of the district, the head of the district transferred the deputy head, and the deputy head came to me. She says that the Education Committee is waiting for results.
- So, the education committee believes that my orientation is immoral?
-Yes, yes, at school you can’t. The authorities told me: no blood, no article. They will not lag behind us. Maybe you make sense to change the name? We have no way out - only at our own request.
- Are there concrete examples of what is immoral?
- Do you want me to write dismissal under Article 81 of paragraph 8 [“The commission of an employee performing educational functions, an immoral misconduct incompatible with the continuation of this work”], and we will meet in court? Try it. I can't leave you. I offer you kindly. We have no other option. Now I will call Irina Borisovna, she needs to answer to the education committee. Oh, a difficult situation. I saw on TV that young people find these very pedophiles and punish them themselves.
- Do you think I'm a pedophile, or what?
- No, I'm just telling.
- You know: I came here to work not for big money. I came to a salary of seven thousand rubles after a salary of 46 (Anastasia worked as a seller in sports stores - approx. Medusa ). I like the school, I like the team, I like that we come up with a lot of things, we win competitions.
- Now Fortune has turned away, but this does not mean that life is over.
- Do you have no complaints about me at work?
- No. Irina Borisovna also believes that you work well. But you see how it turns out.
“If you told me that I am this, this is doing it badly for work, I would leave myself.” But these accusations are just insanity. Belt me under the article.
- Well, then write an explanatory.
After a conversation with the director, Anastasia wrote an explanatory, in which she indicated that “everyone has the right to inviolability of private life, personal and family secrets”, and that she does not consider his personal life “an obstacle to working with children”. The dismissal order (the copy is at the disposal of “Medusa”) indicates that Anastasia was dismissed for “committing an employee performing educational functions, an immoral misconduct, incompatible with a continuation of pedagogical work”.
Vice-governor Vladimir Kirillov could not answer the question of “Medusa”-he is on a business trip until Monday. In the Committee of Education of St. Petersburg, the involvement in dismissal was refuted. “This cannot be, we are not related to school, especially to personnel policy, for them the head of the district administration,” said the head of the press service of the committee Larisa Kuzmina. The deputy head of the administration of the Kirovsky district, Irina Boytsova, could not give an operational comment. It was also not possible to catch at the workplace of the school principal Stanislav Vinogradov - according to his secretary, he is “all the time at the meetings”; Vinogradov refused to talk on the phone.
“You can find a normal, healthy person, not a patient? - says Medusa Timur Isaev. - The teacher is the best of us. It is unlikely that the patient may be the best. LGBT is extremists. The teacher must educate, and all these pederasts do not suffer from patriotism. How can they educate our children? All of them are whiteworms, the fifth column, all are signed for “Lodge”, “Ribbon. Vru”. ”
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Anastasia herself is not a LGBT activist at all. She does not go to the gay promotions, did not hear about the group “Occupy-Pedophilay” , does not know about the project“Children-404” ; She is not aware that the Law on Gay Propagand on June 30, 2013 was distributed throughout the country. Even now, after dismissal, she does not want to get involved in public showdowns.
She can talk about her work at school endlessly.
Anastasia arrived in St. Petersburg seven years ago with Sakhalin, where she graduated from the college of art (she is a conductor of the academic choir by education). For several years she worked as a seller in stores, then she realized that he could not live without music. For some time she returned to Sakhalin, there she accidentally replaced her familiar at school. Anastasia liked to work with children - and she went to St. Petersburg with a list of schools and orphanages, where a music teacher could be useful. At school No. 565 at that moment, the rate was opened, and it was taken. For three years of work, says Anastasia, she had no conflicts with any of the colleagues, they did not make claims to her work.
According to Anastasia, there are two parallels at the school. Autists and children with cerebral palsy study in one. In another, children who did not have time in a regular school. 80% of children - from a neighboring orphanage. “At first they did not perceive me at all, got used to it for a long time, but now they got very attached, especially autists,” says Anastasia. “They need a lot of time to open to you.” I invested a lot in them. For children, that I will not be, too. ”
She says that the children with whom she works is most like to learn songs from cartoons. “If we teach a song, each stage should be in the pictures,” she says. - We show each movement with your hands. If we teach a song about a Christmas tree, then I take out a Christmas tree and spend this Christmas tree in my hands. So that they feel sparing needles - then they will better remember the song. You need to cool everything, to put on, dance. ”
In addition to classes in classes, Anastasia led individual lessons at home for eight children. “I have a girl with whom I am engaged in the synthesizer,” says the teacher. - Her left hand is atrophied. We have been engaged with her for a long time. She is diligent, we developed memory with her, taught notes. Usually she plays with one hand, and the other lies on her knee. And on the second year on one day, when she played with her right hand, fingers stirred on her left. ”
I ask how she will do without this. “I have not realized what happened,” says Anastasia. “I'm not to blame for anything.” I am kicked out of the case that I did and to whom I gave my soul. But I will defend my rights. "
Anastasia’s lawyer Dmitry Bartenev, who now defends the creator of the Children-404 project, Elena Klimova (in November, Roskomnadzor discovered “signs of propaganda of homosexuality among minors” in the community), Medusa said that the lawyer will be filed in court to restore the teacher until the end of December.
Daniil Turovsky
Saint Petersburg