Russia: Gay pride parade ends without start in Moscow with vicious babushkas’ help

Pravda ^ | 05/28/07

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Gay pride parade ends without start in Moscow with vicious babushkas’ help

Front page / Russia / History, traditions 28.05.2007 Source:

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Russian gays and lesbians failed to organize a march in support of untraditional sexual orientation in Moscow yesterday. About 40 representatives of sexual minorities gathered near the building of the Moscow City Administration. They were “welcomed” by police units, hundreds of monarchists, radicals and bellicose babushkas. The organizers of the “satanic march” were arrested immediately and taken to nearest police stations. The rest of them were showered with eggs and empty bottles.

The Moscow government banned the gay pride parade in Russia’s capital for the second time. Nevertheless, homosexuals - both Russians and foreign individuals - were planning to take to the streets of Moscow on Sunday. Their adversaries held the so-called Russian March on Saturday. About 200 people (mostly nationalists and pensioners) gathered for the meeting holding slogans saying “Russia without Sodomites,” Down with Russophobes,” “For Russia Without Perverts,” “Buggery Not For Russians,” etc.

Moscow ’s Tverskaya Street was closed for traffic on Sunday morning. Special police units, hundreds of servicemen were expecting the homosexuals near the Moscow City Administration. About 200 Russian and foreign reporters were ready to witness the upcoming demonstration. Bellicose babushkas and young people gathered for the event too saying that they would never let homosexuals march on the streets of their city.

About 40 representatives of sexual minorities appeared on the scene at about 12 o’clock. They were supposed to collect signatures to sign a petition for Mayor Luzhkov to make the next gay pride parade in 2008 possible.

As soon as gay officials came out of their cars, they were arrested immediately. The reporters were left without sensational reports. Thirty-one people were detained in total. One of them was a homosexual activist, who attacked a British citizen, Peter Tatchell from Outrage! public organization. A young man attacked the foreigner and punched him in the eye. Mr. Tatchell called upon the British Foreign Office to react to the incident immediately.

An action of protest against the gay parade started in Moscow an hour later, at 1:00 p.m. About 30 people gathered at the square not far from the presidential administration. They promised to evict homosexuals from a park in Moscow downtown, where they traditionally meet.

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The gays were confronted by:

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Vicious Babushkas go after a British gay activist

Veteran British gay rights activist Peter Tatchell (L) is attacked by extremist Russian Orthodox believers during a gay rights protest in Moscow May 27, 2007. Russian police detained gay protesters calling for the right to hold a Gay Pride parade in central Moscow on Sunday while nationalists shouting "death to homosexuals" punched and kicked the demonstrators. REUTERS/Hans Knopf (RUSSIA)

British gay rights activist Peter Tatchell speaks during an interview with a Reuters correspondent in Moscow May 28, 2007. Tatchell, who was among demonstrators calling for the right to hold a Gay Pride parade in central Moscow on Sunday, was knocked to the ground and kicked twice. When he got up he was punched in the face again and taken away by two riot policemen. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin (RUSSIA)

Nazis attack gays

Gay rights activists are attacked by nationalist demonstrators in Moscow May 27, 2007. Russian police detained gay protesters calling for the right to hold a Gay Pride parade in central Moscow on Sunday while nationalists shouting "death to homosexuals" punched and kicked the demonstrators. REUTERS/Alexander Natruskin (RUSSIA)

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Ping!

[Borges]

You have to laugh not to cry.

[Rytwyng]

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[Moose4]

“Bellicose Babushkas” would be a great name for a band.

}:-)4

[AngelesCrestHighway]

The gay agenda seems to fall on its collective ass in some places....

[Rodm]

Yep, Russian Grandies do not put up with preverts, they protect their kids.

[mvpel]

... extremist Russian Orthodox believers ...

Extremist? More like, "orthodox."

[FormerLib]

The thought of the sissies running from a pack of grandmothers makes me chuckle.

[Red6]

lol

“Bellicose Babushkas”

[Virulas]

"British gay rights activist Peter Tatchell speaks during an interview with a Reuters correspondent in Moscow May 28, 2007. Tatchell, who was among demonstrators calling for the right to hold a Gay Pride parade in central Moscow on Sunday, described how he got his clock cleaned by an 89 year old woman swinging a purse."

"I'd be surprised," said Tatchell, "if the police, upon opening that woman's purse, did not find something akin to a brick, or a cement block. All I remember is being struck by a very hard object, and just before I blacked out, hearing an old woman's voice yell, 'I sure got all of that one!'"

[Rytwyng]

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LOL!!!

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[xJones]

Bellicose babushkas and young people gathered for the event too saying that they would never let homosexuals march on the streets of their city.

Russia shames the rest of us. In the west, we've let sexual deviants take over so much of the media.

[Rytwyng]

Пинг!

[keats5]

This is hard for me to say about the Russians, but I’m jealous. I wish we had their gutsy Babushkas.

[padre35]

It would seem that Russian Babushkas have a clearer sense of morality than do some fmr mayoral Presidential candidates...

“She had a brick in her purse”

I doubt that, maybe a three day old loaf of Russian Rye bread, while brick like, it isn’t masonary material...LOL

[Old_Mil]

This was downright hospitible of the Russians compared to the reception these freaks would have received in say, Tehran.

[Timedrifter]

The problem is that the majority here (and quite a few who call themselves conservative also) have bought the line that freedom means the acceptance of deviancy. There was a time when gay marches would have received a similar reception here.Instead we have towns like my own who have Gay Pride banners hanging from all the downtown street poles for a week every year. We celebrate deviancy as a form of freedom. I dare say that is not what the founding fathers had in mind.