Russia's first Gay Marriage! Thoughts on Russian reactions?

[Tastyfish]

They look the same, but hey it's a great loophole.

[Deleted]

Why is this even a story?

Who cares what people want to do with their personal lives??

If gay people want to be treated so badly as equals, stop throwing stupid headlines around the media every day and maybe just maybe it stops becoming an issue.

Because it opens a discussion about the restrictive laws in Russia. Coverage helps put social and media pressure on the Russian government. If no one said a word about it then I doubt anything would change and homosexuals living in Russia would have to put up with unjust laws forever.

[Reeve]

Heh, if you're going to have a face for your gay marriage movement, I feel like this is a much less scary image for people:



Than this:

[Tradewind]

Heh, if you're going to have a face for your gay marriage movement, I feel like this is a much less scary image for people:

It's just the cheaper russian knockoff version, it still works though.

[Reeve]

And just to compare women to women, here's another non-threatening gay couple:

[Tradewind]

And just to compare women to women, here's another non-threatening gay couple:

why does Portia de Rossi have a shirt that says "I love my knife"?

[Reeve]

why does Portia de Rossi have a shirt that says "I love my knife"?

Don't get between a woman and her cutlery man. It doesn't end well.

[Tradewind]

Don't get between a woman and her cutlery man. It doesn't end well.

Seems like a rather violent message to be sending!

[Deleted]

Some Russians will support them, some will oppose them, the majority of Russians will not care.

[Deleted]

it's not gay marriage, one is a female the other a male.

[Reeve]

To those calling the women creepy - go to any post-USSR country. You will be surprised by what the majority of women look like, I guess. (not in city centres of metropolitan cities)

Eh, one of my friends was born in Odessa, and she doesn't look creepy at all. Does Odessa count as a metropolitan city? My ex-girlfriend grew up in a satellite town of Moscow, and was not creepy. Does that count?

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it's not gay marriage, one is a female the other a male.

Not anymore

[The King in Yellow]

Some Russians will support them, some will oppose them, the majority of Russians will not care.

This and only this.

And it's not a gay marriage; they're husband and wife. Contrary to the story they got flak for wanting to marry in identical dresses; eventually they were given the green light by the Moscow authorities.

And to everyone going for "this will shed light on the homosexuals in Russia"

Yea.. because the media constantly going on and on and on about gay rights while there's simply gay bars in Russia; people don't talk about it, but they're there. I've heard from many that the more media coverage it is; the more the flak and rude to violent behavior will increase towards them.

Basically from what I've seen, heard and know is Russians do not like to talk/hear about sexuality, at all; straight, homosexual, asexual, they don't care; it's not a public topic for them.

[Elim Garak]

Not anymore

One cannot change their biological sex. Only appearances.

[Reeve]

One cannot change their biological sex. Only appearances.

Well this is a conversation I don't really care to have in the first place. I'll let Erin et al debate this with you.

[NeonX]

Haha what a way to troll the system. Great story but like others have said really creeped out by that couple, it's something I would expect to see in a horror film.

[Tradewind]

One cannot change their biological sex. Only appearances.

it's amazing what science can do these days. They can totally turn a wiener into a very passable looking vajayjay. Not so much the other way around though.

[Cien]

Because it opens a discussion about the restrictive laws in Russia. Coverage helps put social and media pressure on the Russian government. If no one said a word about it then I doubt anything would change and homosexuals living in Russia would have to put up with unjust laws forever.

Thank yooooooooou.

[Dys]

it's amazing what science can do these days. They can totally turn a wiener into a very passable looking vajayjay. Not so much the other way around though.

A man made glorified fuck hole =/= vagina, no matter how you dress it up.

[Kraenen]

why does Portia de Rossi have a shirt that says "I love my knife"?

The life of the wife is ended by the knife. I dunno, work with that.

[wowaccounttom]

wait wait wait.. never mind.. one of them is a dude...


Now.. why would the article say a "she" when it is "clearly" a dude.. a name change and a mutilation doesnt change that fact. Nothing gay about this article..