In a failed attempt to reassure the world ahead of the Sochi Olympics, the Rsian print fends anti-gay laws his untry
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MASHA GSEN’S MIXED MSAG ON PUT, GAYS, AND CIVILIZATNAL CHAOS
Masha Gsen says that Put's war on gays is really a war on the Wt. It's an tertg le, given what she's said about gay marriage. * pusheen gay *
A few days after the December addrs, Alexei Phkov, head of the Duma mtee on foreign relatns, fed that threat on the floor of the chamber: “European Unn advisers practilly every mistry of any signifince, ntrol over the flow of fanc and over natnal programs, and a broang of the sphere of gay culture, which has bee the European Unn’s official policy. Gsen says that the “anti-gay agenda may seem like a th basis for formg a ant ternatnal alliance of state-actors, but has great unifyg potential when amed terms of a broar anti-Wtern effort and, ed, a civilizatnal missn. It’s a no-braer that (gay people) should have the right to marry, but I also thk equally that ’s a no-braer that the stutn of marriage should not exist… Fightg for gay marriage generally volv lyg about what we are gog to do wh marriage when we get there—-bee we lie that the stutn of marriage is not gog to change, and that is a lie.
A GAY RSIAN, EXILED IRELAND
It's not surprisg that Put oppos gay marriage and transgenr rights. What's surprisg is how many Republins the U.S. agree wh him. * pusheen gay *
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Movement Rsia, passg laws that prohibed gay “propaganda. ” Kondakov is a scholar of the movement, and Shtorn has studied the soclogy of hate crim agast gay men.
And, of urse, no Rsian thks they’ve ever met a gay person person—so that mak really easy to create that image of ‘the villao queer people.