Truths behind the gay torture images from Russia
Abuse of an “Uzbek waiter”: From Mikhail Solovyov’s page at vk.com, http://vk.com/id162104250 Russia now is a story told in pictures, still and moving. Everybody knows about Putin’s anti-gay law,...
View ArticleStoli and sympathy, and the new LGBT public sphere: What to do about Russia
The eternal question It’s good to go beyond oneself. The world is so full of borders that moral value accrues simply to those moments when thought exerts itself to cross them. In that sense, the...
View ArticleNikolai Alekseev speaks: “I’ve been called a faggot on every corner, and I...
“They are trying to seize power in Russia,” and my little LGBT organization is the first target: Russian edition of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, 1992 Nikolai Alekseev, the activist who has for...
View ArticlePromoting homosexuality versus promoting one homosexual: Putin, Nikolai...
Brokeback Moscow: Everything is fine here in Marlboro country Vladimir Putin dabbled in the promotion of homosexuality this morning. After all, he can get away with it. In an interview published by AP,...
View Article“Queer quislings”: Johnny Weir, and getting Russia wrong
A conspiracy of infamy so black that, when it is finally exposed, its principals shall be forever deserving of the maledictions of all honest men: BAD GAYS WALK AMONG US, and we must root them out....
View ArticleTop guns: Last words on Johnny Weir
Don’t ask, do sell: Michael Lucas and his gay brigade of faithful soldiers, from ad for his tours of Israel Yesterday morning I got a message from a friend: “Do check Jamie Kirchick’s Twitter feed.” I...
View ArticleBoycott politics: Breaking out of the spaghetto mentality
The same people who have been pushing to boycott a whole country turned on a dime last week, and switched all their eager energies to boycotting bigoted spaghetti. It’s getting hard to keep track. 72...
View ArticlePolicing Pride
Stonewall riot, New York City, June 27, 1969 Forty-five years ago yesterday, the Stonewall riots began, the reason Pride happens at this season. I have a Dark Gay Secret: I’ve never enjoyed most...
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