Eggs and punches at Russia gay march

[Xiao_Chun]

A gay rights demonstration in Moscow degenerated into violence for the second year running as right-wing and orthodox extremists attacked gay rights activists and supporters of the unauthorised demonstration. Read more at

 

 

Eggs and punches at Russia gay march

[Drewbie]

Before at a pride parade it was deemed Illegal and people got arrested

 

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4717942.stm Different story.

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4714818.stm Gay pride challenges Moscow

Edited May 27, 2007 by Drewbie

[Jack Scribe]

Before at a pride parade it was deemed Illegal and people got arrested

Putin seems intent on resurrecting a Soviet Union in a streamlined 21st Century form. I fear he's deep in devious skulduggery. The gay community is probably an annoyance to him.

 

Jack

[GaryKelly]

The famous Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras began about 20 years ago as a protest and resulted in many arrests. These days, it's one of Sydney's major tourist attractions (and revenue earners) that attracts over half a million spectators. Even the police have a gay contingent! Yes, folks, little things grow into big things (except mine hehe).

[Unbeliever]

Putin is far from wanting to see a Socialist Russia, which the Soviet Union was. I'm pro-Putin, because he's the best thing that could have happened to Russia after the Soviet Union and Yeltsin. Undoubtedly, with him in power, it is a very latent liberal autocracy more than a semi-presidential federal republic.

 

He addressed homosexuality only once and in a very vague way, but not a hateful way. It is not his problem at the moment and he does not fuel up the hate in Moscow, or anywhere else.

 

The problem is the attitude of the society. It is one thing to live under a conservative government, knowing these things exist, and knowing they're bad and then making logical progress with time and experience. It is a different thing to live in a box with no doors or windows and no information.

 

To most of the society [and the generation that fully lived in the Soviet Union is right now in their 40-50s] these things did not exist, maybe only as some sort of a backdoor perversity in the dirtier places of the Western World, but you know, even then no, because only the people who were more free in being allowed to travel would know.

 

The influences of the Western World were always hated, they still are to a degree, which is what homosexuality is to them.

 

There will come a point when outright violence will be replaced with mostly indifference, but considering the mentality, I am inclined to think that that will not happen until the few generations living strong right now will die out.

[GaryKelly]

BBC front page: Gay rights activist Peter Tatchell and singer Richard Fairbrass have expressed their shock after being punched by anti-homosexual protesters in Moscow.

 

Why don't peeps demonstrate for straight rights? Must have something to do with a lack of need. Yeah?