Welcome To Chechnya with David France

A Gay and A NonGay

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Sexuality, Health & Fitness, Comedy, Mental Health

4.3 • 632 Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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This is a very difficult, upsetting and triggering episode. Today we’re joined by director David France to talk about his latest film Welcome To Chechnya. "Unmatched since Hitler, it’s a government led campaign to round up and eliminate all LGBT people. The Final Solution…happening before our eyes" Since April 2017, the government in Chechnya has initiated state sanctioned murder, forced disappearances, abductions, imprisonment, torture of LGBTQ+ citizens - with an unknown number of people dying after being detained in what human rights groups call concentration camps. The head of the Chechen Republic, Ramzan Kadyrov denies all of the above - or that gay people exist in Chechnya, stating that such people would be killed by their own families. In some cases, gay men have been let out of prison, specifically to enable their murder by relatives. David’s latest film Welcome to Chechnya shines a light on a vast underground network of safe houses, contacts, and pipelines created by Russian LGBTQ+ groups to help vulnerable LGBTQ+ people escape these horrors. Please consider donating to the Russian LGBT Network, head to https://help.lgbtnet.org/en Watch Welcome to Chechnya on BBC iPlayer in the UK or HBO in the US. Get bonus content on Patreon, with our super exclusive fan feed Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Domestic abuse isn't funny, but my show is, Hey Babes, it's me, James, and my stand-up hour.
0:06.1	Sorry, I hurt your son, said my ex to my mum, is playing London at my first ever off West End
0:11.6	venue, Park Theatre in Finsbury Park on Saturday, the 12th of July, and listeners to a gay
0:17.8	and non-gay can grab a discount with the code gay 10 because I love you.
0:23.1	Mu-man-mo-ma-moa. That sounded gross. Book now at James Barcom. I'm also back in Edinburgh this summer
0:29.0	from the 30th of July to the 24th of August. You can grab tickets for both shows at my website,
0:34.4	jamesbarcom. Love you. Enjoy today's episode.
0:37.9	A gay and a non-gay is a podcast from James Barr and Dan Hudson.
0:41.6	Two unlikely friends take on the world.
0:44.7	I've got a conversion therapy update for you. Boris Johnson has now said two years after
0:50.6	Theresa May said that she would ban it, that he will be banning it. But he still
0:55.8	hasn't banned it. And I wish they would just get the tuck on with it.
1:01.1	Welcome to a gay and a non-gay.
1:17.0	I'm James Barr. I'm gay. That's Dan Hudson. He's non-gay.
1:21.5	This week's episode is a very difficult and upsetting listen.
1:25.3	But, as I'm sure you'll agree, it's incredibly important.
1:29.4	We're about to get pretty real on the situation affecting our community in Chechnya.
1:34.3	I've always felt that an attack on one of us is an attack on all of us.
1:38.8	And if I'm honest, this episode feels like that.
1:43.4	It contains multiple references to the use of concentration camps, murder and torture.
1:50.0	I mean, I don't know what to tell you, but I do know how important it is this is all talked about.
1:56.8	So in April 2017, the world learned that anti-gay purges were being carried out in Chechnya,
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