QC Open Forum: Reactions To Gay Men Holding Hands In Russia And Ukraine
Not everything is porn and eye candy, sometimes here at QC we can debate serious topics. It seems like every news we get from Russia or that corner of the planet gets sadder and sadder when it comes to the LGBT community but nothing makes it feel more real than when you see it with your own eyes. A couple of (brave) Russian YouTubers, following the recent news of the court ruling in the US about marriage equality, decided to put things into contrast by showing that the fight for gay rights is not over yet, not until we truly get equal rights globally. Although sadly you expect violence is a given in countries where governments are as homophobic as Puttin’s it is somewhat even worrisome when onlookers don’t attack but act like if they are in the presence of aliens when they see two gay men just holding hands.
The hostility of conservative mindset is palpable and it gets scarier by the second specially in the case of a social experiment in Ukraine that tried to replicate the first Russian video in their country. The result was even worse, the cameras captured how violence escalates to the point where a gay couple, after receiving an endless tirade of homophobic slurs and phrases like “It looks like they’re mistaking this place for America,” gets kicked and showered with pepper spray by a group of men that outnumbered the couple by a ratio of practically 3 to 1. We ask you QC reader have you experienced something like this yourself? How would you react? How do you think is the best way to help the LGBT communities that are living those countries? Join the conversation in the comments!
h/t: Mashable