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Related: About this forumRussia: Aeroflot forces a gay flight attendant to marry a woman
http://pamshouseblend.firedoglake.com/2012/01/29/russia-aeroflot-forces-a-gay-flight-attendant-to-marry-a-woman/When pro-equality forces in the U.S. think about how far this country has to go to extend full civil equality to LGBTs here, its good to get a reality check of some of the more egregious nonsense that still goes on around the globe. Gay Star News (my emphasis below):
'Gay activists in Russia are planning to ask air passengers to boycott Aeroflot, Russias leading airline and not to use its services until the creation of equal conditions for all workers.
The call comes following the revelation that gay flight attendant Maxim Kupreev was forced by his employers to enter into heterosexual marriage with his former high school girlfriend following his announcement last year to create an LGBT group within the company to fight for the protection of the rights of homosexual employees.
According to internal Aeroflot sources reported by GayRussia.eu, 25-year-old flight attendant Maxim Kupreev was given an ultimatum late last year to enter into heterosexual marriage or to lose his job. At the end of 2011 he married his school friend Sofia Mikhailova who got the right to fly Aeroflot for 10% of the fare and other company privileges.
In order to register marriage with Kupreev, Mikhailova had to dissolve her real marriage to Grigoriy Andreykin. The divorce was finalised on 11 October last year.'
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Russia: Aeroflot forces a gay flight attendant to marry a woman (Original Post)
xchrom
Jan 2012
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dickthegrouch
(3,174 posts)1. They directly ruined four people's lives for this sh*t?
I want to demand of every parent that doesn't want me to marry my boyfriend that they encourage their daughter to marry me. If it's not good enough for their daughter to marry someone who doesn't want them, why should it be good enough for anyone else's?
xchrom
(108,903 posts)2. i like the way you think
William769
(55,147 posts)3. +1.
RetiredTrotskyite
(1,507 posts)4. I Would Say That This is Unbelievable, But...
given the level of anti-gay bigotry in Russia, it's not.