Russia: Gay rights under attack

[LostInTime]

HREA dot org
Human Rights Watch Press release

The violent attacks on peaceful gay pride demonstrators in Moscow in late May show the rollback of respect for human rights in Russia, Human Rights Watch and the European Region of the International Lesbian and Gay Association (ILGA-Europe) said in a briefing paper (http://hrw.org/backgrounder/lgbt/moscow0607/) released today.

Instead of protecting human rights and gay advocates who tried to assemble, Moscow police colluded with skinheads to break up the Gay Pride demonstration. The two organizations documented the violence and urged legal protections for both freedom of assembly for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people.

[Thundra]

Instead of protecting human rights and gay advocates who tried to assemble, Moscow police colluded with skinheads to break up the Gay Pride demonstration.

So, we glimpse our own future in amerika......

[Andrew]

I speak Russian, so I read this in both the Russian and American news. The Russian news reported a far smaller number of demonstrators than the Americans did.

The Russian news...biased? I'd never have guessed!

[Keira]

I once went out with an Ukrainian women (the only real relation in my life) and went to Kiev for 45 days and 5 days in Moscow in 2005.

Actually, its because my relationship with this wonderful, beautiful, sensible soul wrapped in the body of a sultry blonde goddess did not work that I realized I could never be a man to anybody no matter the "incentive" to do so. I cried a lot for a few months when I realized that... It was a revelation that started my transition a few months later. But I still miss her. I can't even tell her about what happened with me because this would kill her (she has intense anxiety and frequent panic attacks since they don't believe in psychologists) and she's a product of her culture.

There, calling somebody crazy there is one of the worse insult possible and they don't believe in psychotherapy. If your gay, or a TS, well YOU ARE THE WORSE KIND OF CRAZY!!

I know many russian who've emigrated from various places in the old USSR and they say the atmosphere, the societal pressure, is smothering, especially on men; they drink for a reason... Its better for a minority, for the rest its better in some aspects and worse in others.