@Higgs:
It may be true that the West no longer has a monopoly on gay rights (though the whole idea of 'gay rights' and even 'homosexuality' is - in my view - unquestionably a Western one).
None of this, of course, is in any way to condone what is going on in Chechnya. But it may be that noisy condemnation from Western nations and from gay rights lobby-groups is doing more harm than good. Which raises a question: what do we want to achieve here? Do we want to end this police harassment and improve conditions for men who have sex with men in Chechnya? Or do we want to try to impose our own ideas about sexual morality and identity on another culture?
As an Asian man who studied a bit of historical instances of gay life in Asian cultures, like Japan for instance- I dispute your point that the whole idea of 'homosexuality' is unquestionably a Western one. So, again, pushing the notion that this is about the spread of a purely Western idea is mistaken.
Here's an excerpt of just the kind of thinking by anti-gay groups in Chechnya right now:
Alvi Karimov, spokesman for (Moscow-backed leader) Kadyrov, has denounced the reports of anti-gay operations in Chechnya as “absolute lies and disinformation”, insisting that there are no gay people in Chechnya to round up. “You cannot detain and persecute people who simply do not exist in the republic,” he told Interfax news agency.
He added: “If there were such people in Chechnya, the law-enforcement organs wouldn’t need to have anything to do with them because their relatives would send them somewhere from which there is no returning.”
This is the kind of chilling hatred that gays in Chechnya are facing. What do we want to achieve? We want the killing, torture and rounding up to stop. What we want is basic human rights and decency and the ability to live without being murdered on the street. It is less about "trying to impose our own ideas about sexual morality and identity on another culture", and more about fighting for basic human dignity and rights. And I think that isn't a monopoly of the West- it's something all human beings deserve and need to fight for.