Crossposted from https://lemmy.world/post/23801022
Russia fined at least seven people for “looking too gay” after a police raid on a nightclub in Tula in February which videos show was carried out by men in military-style uniforms and helmets.
It comes as the Kremlin ramps up a push to promote “traditional values” that has included tightening anti-LGBT legislation and banning “propaganda promoting a child-free lifestyle”.
One man had “crosses of black tape glued to his nipples” and a “women’s style corset” on his “naked” body.
Another had “pink socks … an unbuttoned kimono over his shoulders, his hair dyed bright orange, and red tattoos on his face”.
“Although a man, he was wearing a short top covering his chest, black leather shorts above the knee, on which there were several chain-shaped ornaments, and fishnet tights,” read another description.
“The appearance of the detainees is inconsistent with the image of a man of traditional sexual orientation,” judges were reported to have said.
Well. Fined doesn’t mean killed or arrested. I’m wondering how this would have gone down in the USA.
But what about America.
This has to be one of the more ridiculous examples of whataboutism. And yes, they do kill gays in Russia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-gay_purges_in_Chechnya
I’m saying “I’m glad they only got a fine – they’d have been arrested or killed in the USA” not “Russia has it easy, gays get arrested or killed here” might want to go work off some steam buddy it’s got to be exhausting being that agitated all the time 😂
People are not being arrested for being gay in the US anymore. Violence against gays is overwhelmingly committed by private individuals. This might change under Trump, let’s hope he fails, but he’s not in office yet.
Again, you’re totally off the mark here. The situation is so different between the two countries that bringing up America makes no sense.
