Police raid Moscow gay bars after a Supreme Court ruling labeled LGBTQ+ movement 'extremist'
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Russian security forces have raided gay clubs and bars across Moscow less than 48 hours after the country’s top court banned what it called the “global LGBTQ+ movement” as an extremist organization.

Russian security forces raided gay clubs and bars across Moscow Friday night, less than 48 hours after the country’s top court banned what it called the “global LGBTQ+ movement” as an extremist organization.

Police searched venues across the Russian capital, including a nightclub, a male sauna, and a bar that hosted LGBTQ+ parties, under the pretext of a drug raid, local media reported.

Eyewitnesses told journalists that clubgoers’ documents were checked and photographed by the security services. They also said that managers had been able to warn patrons before police arrived.

  • andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    21·
    11 months ago

    That’s it. Putin and the Russian conservatives are going after gays because it’s an easy win with their conservative base, and they can claim moral superiority. Also distracts from Ukraine.

    There you said it. They don’t care about gay people. They need an easy win with conservative public before future (mock) elections and to distract people from Ukraine. And they also want a weapon to proclaim anyone they dislike an extremist.

    Can you prove you aren’t gay? Let’s see. It’a either you record a video of apologizing for being gay, or we stuff a broom up your ass and you record a video of apologizing for being gay 🤗 Either way, 10 years in a joint.

    I’ve recently seen a good article in a ru-language blogosphere. These pieces of shit who climbed to the power in the 90s and 00s break every ladder to their positions, they want to establish themselves as new nobles, and they need a variety of tools to persecute whoever they dislike. They want the good ol’ serfdom. They build it as we speak.

    It’s not bad if you are gay and noble. Gref, Volodin, others are gossiped to be gay. Rather it’s bad to be not in their club, like most do. Then you are in a risk of being persecuted and robbed of everything over nothing.

    It’s 21th century and neo-feudalism is on the rise! Fuck, I hate it here.

    • uis@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      11 months ago

      others are gossiped to be gay.

      Milonov. He makes a lot of anti-gay statements, but he is gossiped to be gay.

      • rottingleaf@lemmy.zipEnglish
        2·
        11 months ago

        I think I’ve read he was openly gay in the 90s (I mean, Zhirinovsky too to some extent) and there are photos of him from parties of the relevant thematic. I think I saw them even.

        • uis@lemmy.worldEnglish
          11·
          11 months ago

          Zhirik is his own phenomenon. There are for example Zhirinovsky’s Sauna Boys - a group of men, who were often seen in sauna with him and then got position like Degtyarov.

      • andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        11 months ago

        I’d argue that for what he was used for, being a vehicle for unpopular laws, he may not be gay (as we don’t have solid proofs and it doesn’t really matter), but he is sure an f-word.

        Just like that guy: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Krasovsky

        His reaction to treating LGBTQ+ as extremists while being an open gay? Hurr-durr I mean, sometimes you take what your Motherland needs over what you want. That’s the same dude who got banned from the TV because his suggestion of burning ukrainian kids blocked in houses was just too extreme for our media. He’s not unlike fucking Sharikov with that line of choking stray cats.

        For what I care, they can eat whatever, may it be a pussy or a dick, but I’d strongly approve if they’d eat a fucking brick. They do everything to make it be seen as a consensual act.