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Russian gold medalists kiss on medal stand at world championships to protest anti-gay laws
Yahoo Sports ^ | 08/18/2013 | Maggie Hendricks

Posted on 08/19/2013 5:28:48 AM PDT by celmak

Kseniya Ryzhova and Tatyana Firov won a world championship as a part of the 4x400m relay team at the IAAF track championships in Moscow. They edged out the American and British teams for the gold. While on the medal stand, they kissed to protest their own country's anti-gay propaganda laws.

This isn't the first protest of Russia's laws that penalize anyone for talking about homosexuality in front of children, but it's the most visible one done by Russian athletes. U.S. runner Nick Symmonds dedicated his silver medal in the 800m to his gay friends back home, and Swedish high jumper Emma Green Tregaro painted her nails in a rainbow in honor of LGBT pride.

(Excerpt) Read more at sports.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: gay; homo; homosexual
Acting out the "sad" deathstyle.
1 posted on 08/19/2013 5:28:48 AM PDT by celmak
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To: celmak

I found nothing more offensive than the pictures of our fag and lesbo soldiers kissing.


2 posted on 08/19/2013 5:31:10 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: celmak

Somehow, I cannot see Vladimir smiling and nodding at this.

Pussy Riot 2 anyone?


3 posted on 08/19/2013 5:32:34 AM PDT by don-o (He will not share His glory, and He will not be mocked! Blessed be the Name of the Lord forever!)
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To: Sacajaweau

What’s worse, our country is spreading this disease.


4 posted on 08/19/2013 5:43:16 AM PDT by celmak
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To: celmak

There was no protest. It was just a kiss between two friends. Very common among Eastern Europeans: http://inagist.com/all/369126691035045889/


5 posted on 08/19/2013 5:48:02 AM PDT by vladimir998
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To: celmak

There was no protest. It was just a kiss between two friends. Very common among Eastern Europeans: http://inagist.com/all/369126691035045889/


6 posted on 08/19/2013 5:48:08 AM PDT by vladimir998
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To: don-o

Siberia has training camps. As they are about to discover.


7 posted on 08/19/2013 5:48:14 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: celmak; Bender2


8 posted on 08/19/2013 5:49:44 AM PDT by big'ol_freeper ("Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid" ~ Ronald Wilson Reagan)
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To: vladimir998
There was no protest. It was just a kiss between two friends. Very common among Eastern Europeans

Thank you. This is a perfect example of the media creating a story to fit their agenda.

Certainly without caring whether these girls' are hurt by their misreporting.
9 posted on 08/19/2013 5:53:18 AM PDT by mmichaels1970
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To: celmak

Why don’t they just come to New Jersey? Nobody will be allowed to try to cure their illness here!


10 posted on 08/19/2013 5:53:40 AM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed &water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS, NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: vladimir998
Good morning.

Very common among Eastern Europeans

Yes, just like same sex dancing. Makes you think that the story was written to advance an agenda.

5.56mm

11 posted on 08/19/2013 5:56:32 AM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: vladimir998
I wouldn't be surprised if this turns out to be all a media hype at the expense of these two gals.
12 posted on 08/19/2013 6:43:15 AM PDT by celmak
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 photo kiss4_zps0e94aacd.jpg Oh come on... What's a little friendly kiss among friends..
13 posted on 08/19/2013 7:05:04 AM PDT by baddog 219
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To: celmak
That's not much of a kiss..."no tongues".


14 posted on 08/19/2013 7:36:12 AM PDT by moovova
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To: big'ol_freeper; TrueKnightGalahad; blackie; Larry Lucido; Diplomat; RockinRight; Army Air Corps; ...
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Gadzooks! Not only are you hogging the lesbos... you're eating all the chips and dips!
15 posted on 08/19/2013 8:26:59 AM PDT by Bender2 ("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
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Apparently I was wrong about the athletes, they vehemently denounce any kind of support of homosexuallty; they just did what most Euro's do, a little peck on the puckers (no tongue involved).

http://www.france24.com/en/20130820-russia-gold-medalist-athlete-women-viral-photo-kissing-podium-insulted-propaganda-claims-protest-anti-gay

16 posted on 08/20/2013 7:02:07 AM PDT by celmak
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