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February 5, 2014 Marina Galperina

Here’s a sexy little luge video from The Canadian Institute of Diversity and Inclusion in response to Russia’s insane “anti-gay propaganda” laws which persecute LGBT nationwide, deny their right to exist and inspire violent homophobic attacks. “The games have always been a little gay… let’s fight to keep it that way,” the TV ad reads. Yes. […]

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August 15, 2013 Marina Galperina

“Johnny Weir is a traitor! He’s a self-proclaimed Rusophile and he’s going to Russia to fuck and eat red caviar,” yelled the best-dressed man in a room. At the Chelsea LGBT Community Center’s town hall meeting of about 150, Michael Lucas of Lucas Entertainment (link NSFW) declared an all out Olympic boycott as the only […]

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August 2, 2013 Marina Galperina

Today is Russian Airborne Troops Day, an annual military pride celebration which traditionally involves gaggles of soldiers spilling into public square for merriment, flag waving, wallowing in public fountains and miscellaneous public drunkenness. This year, they have a new hobby. If anyone has any confusion about what Russia’s recently-adopted anti-gay laws do to its public, let me […]

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August 1, 2013 Marina Galperina

Contrary to the International Olympic Committee who received “assurances from the highest level” of the Russian government that gay Olympic athletes, foreign visitors and the media will not be persecuted under the “gay propaganda” bill, yes they will. Not only the co-writer of the bill, Vitaly Milonov (petition US government to ban Milonov’s Visa here), stated that […]

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July 30, 2013 Andy Cush

Remember when the International Olympic Committee reassured nervous tourists and athletes that Russia would not be arresting attendees for being gay during the 2014 Winter Olympic Games? Vitaly Milonov, the Russian lawmaker who penned the country’s first “gay propaganda” law in St. Petersburg, which led to the federal ban, now says that’s not the case. Here’s Milonov, […]

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July 18, 2013 Andy Cush

Used to be, you only had to have 15 nanograms of THC per milliliter of blood to get disqualified from the Olympics. Just ask Ross Rebagliati, who had his gold medal in men’s snowboarding taken away in 1998 for testing positive for 17.8 ng/ml. Now, in a move designed to punish only those who use the extremely powerful […]

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June 26, 2013 Marina Galperina

They got Marat Guelman. Unbelievable. Marat Guelman — one of Russia’s most forward-thinking high-ranking art figures with vast experience in pushing Kremlin’s sensitive buttons, has been fired as the director of the vital  Perm Museum of Contemporary Art, which he created in 2008. In an Ai Weiwei-style manhunt, Guelman’s finances are being “looked into” and the galerist […]

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