U2: Rsian Polician Thks Album Cover Is 'Gay Propaganda' | Time

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• A RSIAN POLICIAN THKS U2'S ALBUM COVER IS 'GAY PROPAGANDA'
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A RSIAN POLICIAN THKS U2'S ALBUM COVER IS 'GAY PROPAGANDA'

A Rsian legislator has acced Apple and the band U2 of vlatg the Rsian law “agast gay propaganda among mors” by uploadg U2’s latt album, Songs of Innocence, to iTun ctomers worldwi, cludg Rsia, September 2014.

Alexanr Starovoov, a member of the Rsian State Duma, the lower chamber of Parliament, asked the Prosecutor’s Office to vtigate the cint and le whether me as a breach of the ntroversial legislatn adopted two years ago, which was wily viewed as a crackdown on the Rsian gay muny general. However, Rsia, where homophobic attus have been mon over the last uple of years, Starovoov’s terpretatn of the ver image don’t e as a surprise.

In late 2013, a promoter of Lady Gaga‘s Rsian show was fed unr the “gay propaganda” law.

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Last year, several Rsia hard-le officials, cludg legislator Valy Milonov, the ma proponent of the law “agast gay propaganda, ” ridiculed cross-drser Concha Wurst‘s Eurovisn Song Contt victory and lled for banng the sger om tourg Rsia and boyttg Eurovisn. Later the same year, followg Apple CEO Tim Cook‘s announcement that he is gay, a monument to Steve Jobs and Apple was removed om a St. Is Adam Clayton om U2 gay?

Acrdg to The Guardian, the member of Rsia’s nservative LDPR party has asked his untry’s attorney general to vtigate Apple, which gave away the band’s latt album to more than 500 ln iTun ctomers, for distributg “gay propaganda” to the youths of Rsia. ” But bee neher father nor son are wearg shirts the image—and, okay, bee fathers and sons don’t ually embrace like that—Starovoov thks the ver promot gay sex stead. Why do gay people tend to flock to U2, specifilly to Boy?

People say when the album me out, attracted lots of gay men, and was played a lot gay bars. Apparently people read the lyrics and assumed there were some homoerotic msag ?... Some people assume this is a homoerotic le?

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Prenter Gay Byrne terviews Bono of U2.