A Right to be Gay - Russia

Aug 1996
Until recently it was a crime to be gay in Russia.

Today, gays can revel until dawn in nightclubs teeming with lipstick drag queens and male dancers clad in silver pants. As the bass reverberates around the room, two doctors arrive from St Petersburg's most respected clinic. Igor reveals, "I feel free here, I can talk to other people, and at work I can't do that." Despite Yeltsin's reform, homosexuals live in fear of persecution. The communist concept of a superior Socialist man still engenders a deep seated revulsion against men who deviate from the norm. A homosexual human rights group breaks into its own clubhouse after it was illegally closed down by marauding police. Boys who were beaten up during the raid are too scared to complain in case their families are made to suffer. A group of friends sitting in the sunshine by the river discuss homosexuality. 21 year old Sergei proudly admits to gay bashing. They all agree that gays should not "show off in public". It is only in selective clubs that gays can flaunt their sexuality in safety. The fear is that even this limited freedom might be taken away.

A Film By Lighthouse Pacific (Mark Davis)
Distributed by Journeyman Pictures

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[Yizn074]

@SovjetPhoenix Um, people are born gay and they don't really have a choice. You want them all to leave Russia just because they were born that way? That's fucked up

[superstubes]

@dimax997

well tough titty Russia has gay Russsians!!

[superstubes]

@dimax997

Oh i thought by your medieval thoughts you were a caveman.

[dimax997]

@superstubes huh? you still live like cavemen? there's things called "houses" and "households", google that

[superstubes]

@dimax997

get back in your cave.

[superstubes]

@dimax997

oh youre so butch!!! LOL

[dimax997]

@superstubes They eventually get killed.

[smalroman]

My old dream was a Ferrari, now my dream is that every singly gay fucker would be violently , and brutally murdered , and fed to dogs, i curse every single gay or lesbian person in the world, i hope they all they so sick that they would die out in a week, i would give my life if that would happen, i swear i would, i swear on my life i would. FUCK ALL GAY brainless fuckers

[popazz1]

@dimax997 ,

Sorry,but you can't possibly speak for a whole nation.Attitudes change,wherever you are,it's part of life.What is so scarey about people who just happen to be different?!

[dimax997]

@popazz1 Russians don't want faggots in their country, maybe the west does, but not Russia, easy as that.