Anton Vyacheslavovich Krasovsky or Kuznetsov-Krasovsky (Russian: Антон Вячеславович Красовский; Кузнецов-Красовский) (born 18 July 1975) is a Russian state propagandist journalist, television personality, legal activist for gay rights.

Contents

• 1 Life and career
  • 1.1 Hate speech and the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
• 2 References
• 3 External links

Life and career

Krasovsky was born on 18 July 1975 in Podolsk and studied at the Maxim Gorky Literature Ins*ute. In 2011 Krasovsky participated in the presidential campaign of Mikhail Prokhorov. He also worked as a journalist and editor at the pro-Kremlin NTV channel. He also worked at Kommersant, Yandex, Nezavisimaya Gazeta and Vogue, and other publications.

Krasovsky later began work at another pro-Kremlin channel, Kontr TV, started by himself and Sergey Minaev in December 2012. On 25 January 2013, during a discussion of a proposed national ban on "*sexual propaganda", Krasovsky revealed his *sexuality, stating on-air, "I'm gay and I'm as much a human-being as President Putin and Premier Medvedev." (Russian: Я гей и такой же человек, как президент Путин и премьер Медведев.) His statement was not made available online or was deleted soon afterwards, and on 28 January Krasovsky resigned from the channel and denounced the working environment there. According to other sources, he was fired the same day. His face was soon censored from the show website and removed from the TV show's archives.

Krasovsky stated that he came out because he had enough feeling like a hypocrite. He later referred to the channel's entire output as "propaganda." In May, following the murder of Vlad Tornovy reportedly because he was thought to be gay, Krasovsky published an article in The Guardian denouncing *phobia in Russia. He wrote:

How did it come about that today in Russia a good gay person is a dead gay person? How did there come to be a law in the Duma that forbids justifying *sexuality? Until now, the only thing you were forbidden to justify in my country was terrorism.... So as far as the deputies are concerned I am not a human being in the same sense that they are; I am to be cl*ed as s*, like a terrorist. As far as the deputies are concerned I am s* by the fact of my birth, and it was criminal negligence not to have made a note of that in my birth certificate. What seemed like a bad dream only a couple of years ago has now become reality. And it is terrifying to imagine what could happen tomorrow.

Krasovsky spoke out in August 2013 against the boycott of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Russia that some gay rights activists proposed. He said: "If you want to boycott Olympic games in Russia, you're trying to boycott 7 million gay people in Russia. You want to boycott me." He is interviewed about his experiences in the 2014 do*entary film Campaign of Hate: Russia and Gay Propaganda.

In July 2016, Anton Krasovsky and the head of the outpatient department of the Moscow Regional AIDS Center Elena Orlova-Morozova established The Foundation in support of people who live with HIV — AIDS.Center.

In December 2017, Krasovsky revealed that he has been HIV positive since 2011.

In 2021, Anton was working at Russia Today as a host of a Talk Show named "Антонимы" - "The Antonyms".

Hate speech and the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine

In January 2022, during a televised interview at Russia Today with Alexander Baunov about recent developments in Kazakhstan, he denied the possibility of Ukraine joining NATO and warned that Russia would start an invasion to stop any such attempt, citing "We (Russia) will make a military intervention to Ukraine. It is our land". On being asked if it was an ultimatum, he agreed.

In one broadcast he called Ukrainians "animals," and said Ukraine "should not exist, and we will do anything to make it disappear.

Elaborating on the Cons*ution of Ukraine and the country in general, he said: "Here I am * telling you. I will personally be present at the burning of your *ty, so-called cons*ution. Right on Maidan Nezalezhnosti.".

The 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine was carried out shortly after, on late February.

References

External links

• Anton Krasovsky at LiveJournal
• Anton Krasovsky on Twitter
• Russia: The country that hates gay people, The Independent, 14 May 2013
• Gay Russian TV personality reflects on his firing and his country, Los Angeles Times, 23 February 2013