Love is gay

By maxime68 on Tuesday, May 12, 2009 - 13:28

Love is gay? But what’s the news in this? In this case, I took some liberties with translation. I don’t know what was originally said respectively written, according to a German translation the Russian participant for the Eurovision Contest Anastasia Prikhodko gave this as an answer in an email when asked about supporting Slavic Pride. The literal translation would have been “love is colorful” but “love is gay” fits so much better.

According to some fan blogs some of the participants are gay (I don’t know who and if they are out) and no signs of support for Slavic Pride from them - except for Gordon, singer of the Dutch group, who said that he was going to boycott the show, if there would be aggressions against homosexual activists.

I have to take up the cudgels on behalf of Patricia Kaas whose answer to the question about her support for Slavic Pride was that she hadn’t heard of that before, yet everyone should have the possibility to live their life.

It’s not been that long that I came across the term Slavic Pride, until recently it had always been referred to Moscow Pride. Nikolai Alexeyev, founder of gayrussia.ru, has been trying to get official permission for a pride parade in Moscow for years now. Mayor Yury Luzhkov, an extreme homophobe, refused permission repeatedly, for various reasons. With international support Nikolai Alexeyev still organized unofficial pride parades, some of which you probably heard of in the media, e.g. police stood watching skinheads and other militants aggressing and attacking participants of the parade and ended up arresting participants of the parade.