Okay, comrades, let's punish Elton John too, why don't you?

[luvdovz.livejournal.com]

We've had quite a debate around here the other day about the frightening prospect of people marrying donkeys, dogs laying with cats, and all that apocalyptic stuff that obviously scares the shit out of some people. Well, some in the audience might've felt shocked and appalled by some of the responses, and they may have found themselves scratching their heads in dismay, wondering where did all that homophobia suddenly come from in some particular societies.

So let's try to put this into perspective, and maybe we could take a step slightly closer to the answer.

At the end of May, the deputy director of the regional airport in the Kamchatka peninsula in the Russian Far East was attacked by unidentified individuals and fatally stabbed multiple times. The local police started an investigation, their primary version about the motivations for the assault being the "non-traditional sexual orientation" of the 38 year old man. Just a few weeks earlier, a similar case had happened in Volgograd, where a 23 year old man was tortured and brutally murdered because of his sexual orientation. Now, the LGBT community is blaming this alarming trend on Russian politics and Russian politicians (among other things). And indeed, things have been moving into an awkward direction for quite a while, as far as gay rights in Russia are concerned - the "advocating in favor of the gay threat" now being officially a crime, and hatred for gays and lesbians being encouraged among the general populace by the very people of power themselves.

( The most recent example )