My personal boycott of the Olympics

[MADem]

76. What a pantload of bullshit. There's no equivalence, no "it's not so bad" in Russia.

Those aren't "statistics," they are brightly colored propaganda.

You won't get fired for being openly gay in Russia, but you won't get HIRED, either.

You will get beaten in the street if you try to hold a pride parade.

The blatant lies about violence in that 'report' are laughable. Here's where you'll get a sense of how difficult life is for gay people in Russia:

http://www.hrw.org/news/2014/02/03/russia-sochi-games-highlight-homophobic-violence

LGBT people face stigma, harassment, and violence in their everyday lives in Russia, and LGBT victims of violence and groups told Human Rights Watch that these problems intensified in 2013. Victims in cities including Moscow, St. Petersburg, and Novosibirsk told Human Rights Watch they were attacked in public places, abducted, beaten, harassed, threatened, and psychologically abused. They told Human Rights Watch that they were afraid to go to the police to report violence, fearing further harassment and believing the police would not bother to pursue their attackers. When victims did lodge complaints with the police, few investigations followed.

The absence of relevant data makes it impossible to quantify the extent to which such violence and harassment increased during 2013, but all of the victims and LGBT groups who spoke to Human Rights Watch said they experienced an escalation in homophobic attacks starting in late 2012.

The Russian LGBT Network, an umbrella LGBT group based in St. Petersburg, conducted an anonymous survey on discrimination against LGBT populations in Russia in 2013. More than 50 percent of the 2,007 respondents had experienced psychological abuse, and 15 percent had experienced physical violence. Only 6 percent of victims contacted police.

At least three murders allegedly motivated by homophobia were reported in May, a month before the adoption and signing of the federal anti-gay “propaganda” law.

They gloss over the adoption and marriage issue in a real hurry, don't they?

So yeah....Fuck Putin and his "Gayest Olympics ever!" Yes, the reviews are in:

The Gayest Olympics EverSorry, Vlad. Sochi's opening ceremony was theatrical, flamboyant, and fabulously haughty.


Sochi 2014: The gayest anti-gay Olympics ever

Sochi - the gayest Olympics ever?

And that's just the tip of the iceberg!

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