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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMoscow's Largest Gay Club Shuts Its Doors
Russia's largest gay club, Moscow's Central Station, is about to be no more, after a series of antigay attacks and a decision from the Moscow Arbitration Court that ordered the club's owners to end their lease of the building, according to Queer Russia.
Central Station was the target of at least three documented attacks in the past six months one where armed men sprayed the club's unmarked door with bullets in November, another where malefactors released a harmful gas into the club just weeks later, and a third, allegedly organized by the building management, where a group of men dismantled the club's roof in December. In early January, the club's CEO resigned and formally requested asylum in the U.S.
That former owner, Andrei Lichinsky, told news outlets in January that police refused to respond to any of his 30 complaints about attacks on the club and its patrons, and that he had personally been targeted by the local prosecutor's office and had his car lit on fire, according to the U.K. LGBT outlet PinkNews.
http://www.advocate.com/world/2014/03/18/moscows-largest-gay-club-shuts-its-doors
HERVEPA
(6,107 posts)Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)you can count on it.
William769
(55,147 posts)I'm waiting for Tr to say that there was massive pedophilia going on at the club.
cyberswede
(26,117 posts)This type of hatred in this day and age boggles my mind.
Brickbat
(19,339 posts)stevenleser
(32,886 posts)We're supposed to delight in and excuse the actions of anyone who is on the other side of US policy no matter what.
Yeah, I haven't gotten with the program on that either, nor will I.
William769
(55,147 posts)okaawhatever
(9,462 posts)TBF
(32,062 posts)Vashta Nerada
(3,922 posts)How can anyone defend him when he's so blatantly homophobic?
William769
(55,147 posts)sheshe2
(83,773 posts)joeybee12
(56,177 posts)denying this happened. I guess they're busy defending Putin's thugs elsewhere.
William769
(55,147 posts)MerryBlooms
(11,769 posts)Cha
(297,262 posts)many other assholes.
What's going to happen to Gay People in the Crimea?
littlewolf
(3,813 posts)I am sure they picked up some last time they were in Germany.
/s (I think)
Terra Alta
(5,158 posts)Maybe they can seek asylum in Ukraine?
NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)None of the rt.com-quoters have registered their outrage.
Terra Alta
(5,158 posts)The US is moving forwards while Russia is moving backwards.
Putin can go fuck himself.
Behind the Aegis
(53,959 posts)It is much better than the US; there are even stats to prove it. I saw it here...multiple times. It must be true! This just indoctrinated M$M-type media spreading Russophobic propaganda!
Ok, I have to stop, I am being so sarcastic, I am making myself dizzy!
I am really starting to wonder: if this is happening in the capitol, what the hell is happening in smaller cities, y'know, the places where media isn't translated and plastered all over the internet?!
William769
(55,147 posts)masochism anyone?
stevenleser
(32,886 posts)In other words, I am sure it is completely open season on LGBT in suburban and rural Russia right now.
But any of us who try to say so are bad and hypocrites and all of that.
Behind the Aegis
(53,959 posts)I had a thought similar to your statement, but just not that far back. I was thinking the 60's. How many GLBT people are being "punished" for the world's reaction to the homophobic swill coming from Russia?
I was scolded last night (this morning) with all types of false equivalencies and repeatedly implied I was a liar. It is outrageous that those of us GLBT and our true allies (such as yourself), are the ones being accused of the very thing we are pissed about!
stevenleser
(32,886 posts)respond to scapegoating of a minority group by their government with enthusiastic sadism.
This was Russia a 14 months ago before the anti-gay law. http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/article/death-indifference-aids-and-heroin-addiction-russia not all of this story is about LGBT issues but the read is a sobering one nonetheless and the discrimination against LGBT is demonstrated several times and again, that was BEFORE the anti-gay law.
uppityperson
(115,677 posts)HomerRamone
(1,112 posts)and also against our meddling in Ukraine...
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)Insisting upon some connection as if opposing the anti gay laws is actually supporting war is a bigoted tactic.
William769
(55,147 posts)Never seem to post in any threads just about LGBT issues for any reason. Makes one wonder about that mantra.
Behind the Aegis
(53,959 posts)There is a perfect example from last night. It is always a joy to be scolded and told how we really don't know what is and isn't going on with regards to our community.
William769
(55,147 posts)Behind the Aegis
(53,959 posts)Granted there is not a slew of them, but the numbers do seem to be growing.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)follow the thread when your blood pressure permits
William769
(55,147 posts)My transparency page may not have the same feeling towards you.
NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)it will only get worse there.
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)blackspade
(10,056 posts)These are the same 'neighborhood defense forces' that Russia organized in Crimea.
Takket
(21,573 posts)I'm sure these "unknown attackers" are just as much a mystery to Putin as the local self defense forces in Ukraine.