Elton John Defends Russian LGBT Community in Open Letter to Vladimir Putin
Source: Radio.com
Elton John isn’t one to stay quiet. So after hearing about Russian President Vladimir Putin’s recent statements linking homosexuality to pedophilia, he decided he needed to address the foreign leader directly.
In the 7-paragraph statement, which went up today (Jan. 22) on his website, John states that “vicious homophobia has been legitimised by this legislation and given extremists the cover to abuse people’s basic human rights.” The legislation John is referring to is a law Putin signed last year that classifies “homosexual propaganda” as pornography, which means anyone who is gay or supports gay right is subject to arrest and fines.
John goes on to talk about his experience in the country last December when he arrived to play a show in Moscow, noting that he was “welcomed as an openly gay foreigner,” but wanted to understand “first-hand what difference the legislation had made to Russian LGBT in their own country.”
Read more: http://news.radio.com/2014/01/22/elton-john-defends-russian-lgbt-community-in-open-letter-to-vladimir-putin/
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