This is bad. I'm with Harvey. We have to boycott the Olympics. This is scary scary legislation. This is also why it's important that people like Jason Collins come out. The more visible the gays are, the more chance we have of getting treated equally. When people know their uncle is gay, and their mayor is gay, and their sports hero is gay, then they are less afraid of gays. This is scary scary news that affects us ALL: http://m.hollywoodreporter.com/news/harvey-fierstein-opens-up-his-590199
I don't know. I know Uganda has tries to pass legislation to kill all gay people and it received support from some Americans.
What's crazy is a lot of these Russian politicians have threesomes and what not where the girls go down on each other
Here is Harvey's op Ed piece. This is scary: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/22/opinion/russias-anti-gay-crackdown.html?_r=1&
With the game of basketball originally being a woman's sport in a lot of "Eastern Bloc" countries, it'll be pretty cool watching Brittney Griner tear those countries a new asshole.
HEY!! I just had a thought. We want Snowden back, right? Why not tell Putin his girlfriend was really a fake and that Snowden is actually queer. I'll bet he'll be on the next planeski back here.
Don't know if you also saw in the NY Times this weekend the article on "corrective rape", the rape (and often murder) of lesbians to turn them straight. Often arranged by their parents and/or clergy. This despite the fact that laws in South Africa are quite progressive; the Constitution bans discrimination based on sexual orientation and they were the fifth country to pass marriage equality. It wasn't just "some Americans" that backed the kill the gays bill in Uganda. Prominent Christian clergy helped write the bill and praised it as the kind of godly measure they can't get passed in this country. Nigeria also has had increasing attacks on gays and more stringent legislation. Back to Russia: At the time of the 1917 Revolution, the tsarist laws against homosexuality were wiped off the books. There was no rights movement in Russia as there was in some Western European countries, most notably Germany, but the Bosheviks had the (correct) idea that that state should not control private morality. But as South Africa shows, legislation is not enough when attitudes don't change. The Stalinist counterrevolution targeted progressive legislation, bringing back the ban on homosexuality, also outlawed abortion (this was later overturned). And in good old Virginia, they are still trying to make oral and anal intercourse between consenting adults in private, even if married, a crime, despite the Supreme Court ruling this is unconstitutional. And yes, corrective rape happens here.
Let me make my point clear- yes, I am a hypocrite. I find two men together revolting and two women together erotic to the point I'd love to join in. That said, to deny anyone the same rights as any other citizen due to sexual oreintation is 100% wrong and indeed hateful. If there is anything about that you fail to understand, just let me know.
It's times like this i'm glad we live on the west coast (we're obviously not there yet, but further along than most of the world/country)
Nope, that is a good answer. I understand you were joking before, but I had no way to telling it from your comment.
Damn, I didn't know this. Well I had been talking about visiting a friend in Russia next summer, I don't think I'll do that now. We can meet elsewhere. To those that stay on top of situations like this, please keep us informed. I would be happy to avoid Russian vodka or do some other boycott if its organized and enough people are actually doing it so that we can be heard. This is just totally shitty.
The leftist liberal Soviet Union was overthrown to enable religion. So now it's a crime to insult religion. The rock group Pussy Riot is in prison for doing so. The West, which overthrew the atheist system and installed the pro-religion regime, now pretends to be aghast at the results.
