Russian embassy sidewalk in Stockholm painted rainbow by activists
I saw, flying around Twitter last night, a claim that activists in Sweden had painted the sidewalk in front of the Russian Embassy in Stockholm in the colors of the rainbow, to protest Russia’s...
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BREAKING: Russia Interior Minister confirms Olympic athletes will be arrested...
BREAKING: This just in, after I published this post. Russia’s Interior Minister has just confirmed that Russia will enforce its draconian new anti-gay/anti-trans law during the 2014 Winter Olympics in...
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NYT Nov. 6, 1935: Hitler to take down anti-semitic signs during Olympics, IOC...
The New York Times reported on November 6, 1935 that German Chancellor Adolf Hitler promised International Olympic Committee (IOC) chairman Count Henry Baillet-Latour that he would take down...
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Oodles of Russian Olympic news today – it’s out of control, here’s a summary
I’m staggered by the amount of “news” there is this morning about the Russian Olympics, and the backlash the Russian government is feeling over its crackdown on its gay and trans citizens, and it’s...
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Russia may be 1st Olympic host to ever threaten to jail Olympians
When I see people talk about “the spirit of the Olympics,” and how the entire point of the Olympic Games is for enemies to put down their swords for two weeks and join together in sport, I have to...
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Senior Russian sports official: No one wants gay naked Nazis at the Olympics
It’s like shooting fish in a barrel. I’m almost feeling sorry for the Russian government at this point. It simply can’t help itself. The latest numbskull to shoot himself in the foot is Russia’s World...
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Your AM Russian gay Olympic implosion update
The morning news roundup about Russia’s crackdown on its gay and trans citizens, and the global backlash against the Sochi Olympics. FIFA soccer body asks Russia to clarify anti-gay law. The...
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Russia update: Savage & Fierstein on MSNBC, Brits & Swedes weigh in, Miss...
Dan Savage appeared on Chris Hayes’ show to talk about the Russia anti-gay/anti-trans crackdown. See video below. Chris doesn’t seem to understand the point of the vodka boycott, unless he’s seriously...
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Russia isn’t the Holocaust, but it might be Germany circa 1933
AMERICAblog reader BeccaM posted a great comment yesterday in response to my article about Holocaust-phobes (people who fear any invocation of the Holocaust). What Russia is doing to gays, lesbians,...
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An update on that Russian vodka boycott “that isn’t working”
The “Russia experts” have been busy the past week. In column after column, from the NYT to the New Republic to Forbes (well, it is Forbes, after all), the self-proclaimed “experts” have explained to...
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Masha Gessen, a Russian journalist and lesbian activist, who authored a critically-acclaimed biography of Russian President Vladimir Putin, spoke last night at the Queer Nation NYC meeting about the...
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Three big Parisian gay bars ban Russian vodka
Imagine my surprise. I’m out for a drink last night with an American friend visiting from DC, I’m sipping on my strawberry mojito (they like to add fruit to them here in Paris), and suddenly I see a...
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Coke, Visa, McDonald’s blasted for sponsoring “officially anti-gay Olympics”
Quite a powerful editorial from Bloomberg, castigating the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for giving the patina of Olympic approval to Russia’s draconian anti-gay law. But Bloomberg doesn’t stop...
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Growing international backlash against Russian anti-gay Olympic threat
Another out-of-control news day over Russian’s anti-gay laws and the upcoming 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. The international news is especially heartening. This topic is gaining significant...
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Russia’s gay crackdown: Oodles of morning news
Russian hockey player Ilya Kovalchuk is fine with oppressing gays, because “it’s a free world.” More from Allan Muir at Sports Illustrated: Here’s a shocker: another high-profile Russian athlete has...
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A response to Katrina vanden Heuvel’s dreadful “gay Russia” oped
Katrina vanden Heuvel, the editor of the liberal magazine the Nation, had a rather odd op ed in the Washington Post this morning, criticizing the international gay community’s work to date in...
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Nothing good can come from Johnny Weir
It’s time we stopped pretending that every guy who sucks d*ck, as my friend Dan Savage would put it, is somehow an instant expert on our civil rights. Johnny Weir is living proof that you can be de...
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Elton John to perform in Russia – will he speak out against gay crackdown?
Elton John just told the Guardian that he’s going to keep his December concert date in Moscow, even though the Kremlin is sure to use the world’s possibly-most-famous gay man as a major propaganda...
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Barilla CEO makes video apologizing to gays, for 4th time. Barilla supporters...
Barilla pasta empire CEO, Guido Barilla, released a video today apologizing again to the gay community for saying the other day, among other things, that he would never put a gay family in an ad for...
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Barilla pasta kinda-sorta finally gets that bigotoni is bad for business
Barilla pasta got into some hot water six weeks ago after AMERICAblog exclusively broke the news that the Italian giant’s chairman, Guido Barilla, told an Italian radio show that the company would...
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