"Brave Russian Officers Defend Glorious Motherland From Dangerous Socialist Gay Men!"

[Skybird]

And here we go again. Haven't we just ended another long gay-debate? I agree, the Eastern-european people exaggerate it with their homophobic attitutde, however, I do not like these provoking gay/levsian parade either. And most important: from a Western perspective, this russian thing now is of no further vital interest for us. I suggest we stick to what really must concern us. Neither this foolish eurovision "song" nonsense (happening to look more and more like a live show-act at an erotic-fair), nor the breakup of this provoking (and btw: forbidden) parade should bother us too much.

The level of violence at the clashes in Berlin on May 1st, and the fact that for 280 arrested criminal thugs more than 500 policemen were wounded (2 wounded officers for 1 arrest), and that the police union complains about a politically wanted but unrealistic operation concept that send their own officers literally to the slaughter - that should pragmatically be much closer to for example Germany's focus of attention. And the German Green gay politician who joined gay parades in Eastern Europe and this one as well, and got his nose dunked two years ago, should remember that he was elected into the German Bundestag - not into the Russian Duma.

As a matter of fact, we are in no powerful enough position to tell the Poles and Russians to be more relaxed towards gays. I wish they were, but as a matter of fact, they are not. That'S reality, I can't help it. There are more important things going on in the world. And many gays over there already would be helped if they would not make such a big fuss about their orientation. Maybe not running around and telling everybody they are gay, would be a clever strategy for them. I personally even am pissed if somebody constantly tells me he is hetero - who cares for that sort of info? Sooner or later, Russians and others will find a balanced stand on these things all by themselves. Let them, then.