Offering a sobering reminder of the safety and privilege most LGBTQ people in the United States enjoy, the new trailer to HBO’s Welcome to Chechnya has been released.The new documentary film from Oscar-nominee David France (How to Survive a Plague) chronicles the growing climate of homophobia in Eastern Europe.
In particular, the movie focuses on the anti-LGBTQ sentiment preached by Russian President Vladamir Putin and Ramzan Kadyrov, head of Chechnya, as well as the Holocaust-type purges of.