Putin threatens Ukraine and DU rationalizes. A GAY BAR shows down, however...

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Star Member William769 (37,346 posts)


Moscow's Largest Gay Club Shuts Its Doors
Russia's largest gay club, Moscow's Central Station, is about to be no more, after a series of antigay attacks and a decision from the Moscow Arbitration Court that ordered the club's owners to end their lease of the building, according to Queer Russia.

Central Station was the target of at least three documented attacks in the past six months — one where armed men sprayed the club's unmarked door with bullets in November, another where malefactors released a harmful gas into the club just weeks later, and a third, allegedly organized by the building management, where a group of men dismantled the club's roof in December. In early January, the club's CEO resigned and formally requested asylum in the U.S.

That former owner, Andrei Lichinsky, told news outlets in January that police refused to respond to any of his 30 complaints about attacks on the club and its patrons, and that he had personally been targeted by the local prosecutor's office and had his car lit on fire, according to the U.K. LGBT outlet PinkNews.

http://www.advocate.com/world/2014/03/18/moscows-largest-gay-club-shuts-its-doors

Of course it's posted by William769, who is unaware of any phenomenon in the world unrelated to gayness.


Steven the Lesser attempts to rehab his rep:

Star Member stevenleser (17,868 posts)
6. We're supposed to ignore all of this lest we be scolded not to say that Putin is bad.

We're supposed to delight in and excuse the actions of anyone who is on the other side of US policy no matter what.

Yeah, I haven't gotten with the program on that either, nor will I.

Ooooh, defending gay bars on DU. What a controversial stance.

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In early January, the club's CEO resigned and formally requested asylum in the U.S.

Obama and Holder will welcome him with open arms, but a persecuted Christian family from Germany, not so much.

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stevenleser

We're supposed to delight in and excuse the actions of anyone who is on the other side of US policy no matter what.

Yeah, I haven't gotten with the program on that either, nor will I.

steve the lesser did it for the whole of Bush43's term. Now suddenly he can't get "with the program." He must mean "nor will I" until a Dem is no longer in the WH.

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