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Difficult to be gay in Russia

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8 years ago

Hells yeah, B3 — in many Muslim countries (the ones that take the Quran most strictly), homosexual acts lead to beheadings.

BATTLEFIELD3
8 years ago

...and most of the Muslim world, unfortunately.

8 years ago

Coincidentally, Zircon, USAinIndia's blog gay news today put up a post specifically on that, see this video: usainindia - 2015-07-14 13:07:20
Here's What Happens When Two Men Hold Hands While Walking The Streets of Russia. In this new video from ChebuRussiaTV -- which has almost 4 million views on YouTube -- two men walk the streets of Moscow, Russia while holding hands in a social experiment to demonstrate how LGBT individuals are treated by the world around them. The video shows reactions ranging from verbal attacks to physical assault, with the video ending as a large man forcibly separates and threatens the pair. ... http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/heres-what-happens-when-two-men-hold-hands-while-walking-the-streets-of-russia_55a5206ae4b0ecec71bcf80b

funksexual
8 years ago

Russia has become a very fascist country... then again Stalin was a fascist and his treatment of LGBT people is similar to Putin's. So same story, different character.

swiftjohn
8 years ago

It seems that Russia is partying like it's the 1930's with the Anschluss with Crimea, treating eastern Ukraine like the Sudetenland and gays as the new untermensch.

8 years ago

Yes, I would agree. I'm an American, but have an old e-friend (from 2004 when we were on the same yahoo group) and visited him (and his wife and son) 2x, in 2011 & 2012. (Haven't been able to make it since, but it's definitely on the drawing board to return.) Yes, their laws and culture are still decades behind ours when it comes to "homosexuality"; I know that Nick's wife (my friends there in St. Petersburg) is staunchly anti-gay. So since I love the family so much, I'm sure to behave myself in Russia, I'd much rather do that, pretend I'm straight to them, than lose them as friends.


(By the way, I also know a few GAY guys in Russia & Eastern Europe too, just "e-friends" whom I've not (yet) visited. I don't know how difficult their daily lives may be. Maybe not much at all, since I do wear my earrings when I'm in Russia and there's no problem with that; maybe they and hairstyles & tattoos just = "Bohemian" there, and are not so much an indicator of gender preference.)