Police Break Up Gay Rally in Moscow
Remember when many of us refused to support the Olympics in Russia because of the way LGBT people are being treated there? At the time, gay men like Johnny Weir thought we should separate sports from politics, and he supported the Russian Olympics…in the lamest way possible. They even sent a delegation to Russia with some very well known sports names in order to prove some kind of point. Well, they proved nothing and it should have been boycotted. Here’s what’s still happening in Russia to LGBT people.
Police broke up an unsanctioned gay rights rally in central Moscow on Saturday, detaining around 20 people, including anti-gay campaigners who attacked the activists.
The campaigners had requested permission to hold a gay pride parade today, but Moscow authorities blocked the request for the tenth year in a row – an annual ritual that has come to symbolize Russian authorities’ hostility to public expressions of support for gay rights.
A 2013 law against gay “propaganda” also sparked an outcry among Russian rights activists and in the West. But partly reflecting the influence of the Orthodox church, many Russians back the law or have negative feelings toward gays.
Ian Reisner Made The New York Times
Yes, this is the same Ian Reisner I posted about yesterday, and several times in the past. Evidently, the New York Times thought this was newsworthy, too. And, there’s more to the story I didn’t see in gay presses.
“In the interest of transparency, I gave Senator Cruz a $2,700 check to show my support for his work on behalf of Israel,” Mr. Reisner said in a statement he provided after The Times learned of the donation from two people with direct knowledge of it. “When I realized his donation could be misconstrued as supporting his anti-gay marriage agenda, I asked for the money back. Senator Cruz’s office gave the money back, and I have no intention of giving any money to any politicians who aren’t in support of L.G.B.T. issues.”
And it gets even worse.
Yet the anger at the hoteliers has been fierce and unrelenting. Mr. Reisner is under great pressure from angry residents in the Fire Island Pines who want him to divest of his interest in the commercial property there. In early May, Eric von Kuersteiner, a businessman on Fire Island who previously owned the properties in the harbor, even approached Mr. Reisner offering to buy him out for somewhere in the ballpark of $2 million.
It’s a more in-depth article, and gives far more information than anything you will read in a gay press.
Ricky Martin’s Dating Challenges
You know, it’s Ricky Martin. He can talk about anything he wants and I’ll listen. In this piece he discusses a few of the dating challenges he’s faced as a single dad.
“We’re all men. It’s in our DNA to go for it,” he told The Sun. “But I have two boys and I cannot bring different men every day into my house.”
Martin split from longtime boyfriend, Carlos Gonzalez Abella, in 2014. Still, he remains hopeful he’ll tie the knot one day, saying he loves “the romanticism” of a wedding and that a marriage certificate “is important.”
The top priority in his next relationship, he added, is a deep, personal connection.
“I like to have a conversation, looking into someone’s eyes and finding out their sense of humor,” he told the publication. “I’m not saying you have to be an Adonis, but you have to connect.”
Again, it’s Ricky Martin. Do I have to say anything else? The man could have twelve toes and eat crackers in bed and I doubt anyone would fault him for that 🙂
