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Russia's Largest Gay Club Has Shut Down
ABC News ^ | 3-27-2014 | MELIA PATRIA via Nightline

Posted on 03/27/2014 8:24:21 AM PDT by tcrlaf

After enduring months of homophobic attacks, including gunfire and toxic gas, Russia's largest gay nightclub, Central Station, has finally closed its doors for good.

The club management surrendered to a spate of harassment in late February, after a group of men allegedly blocked the front gates, preventing patrons from entering the building safely, according to staff members who were on the scene. The well-known club was widely considered a haven and a symbol of freedom for the country's besieged LGBT community.

"All was [taken] by our enemies," lamented former club dancer Alexander Moskalets. "It's all gone."

"They really stopped the normal work of our club," said a manager, who asked that his name not be used out of safety concerns.

"Of course, I'm sad," he added, "but I was ready for this situation."

Prior to the shutdown, "Nightline" aired a special report on the Moscow nightclub after a months-long investigation into the business's effort to survive. "Nightline" traveled to Russia amid evidence of escalating violence against the LGBT community there following the passage the Kremlin's controversial "anti-gay propaganda" law.

(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: gay; homosexualagenda; media; russia
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To: tcrlaf

ABC News has blocked me from commenting. I’ll take that as a badge of honor....


21 posted on 03/27/2014 8:37:14 AM PDT by clintonh8r (Don't give up! The liberals are buggering and aborting themselves into extinction.)
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To: tcrlaf

I wonder if anyone at ABC might care what happens to Mrs. Maria Corina Machado, mother of 3, catholic.


22 posted on 03/27/2014 8:37:16 AM PDT by areukiddingme1 (areukiddingme1 is a synonym for a Retired U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer and tired of liberal BS.))
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To: AppyPappy

The American Left gleefully referred to President Bush as BusHitler. How will they configure Putin? HitlerPootie?


23 posted on 03/27/2014 8:39:06 AM PDT by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: <1/1,000,000th%
Homosexuals don’t like bisexuals.

While I, a heterosexual, do not believe they exist. If a man has sex with another man, even if it's on a part time basis, he's queer.

Same for woman on woman.

24 posted on 03/27/2014 8:40:50 AM PDT by Graybeard58 (God is not the author of confusion. 1 Cor 13: 33)
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To: tcrlaf; All
in Lexington KY, the Lexington Herald-misLeader "Newspaper"; *snickering* is
(conveniently) close to a gay/mtg. place, right across the street from the liberal rag.
so I've been told, next to the wall enclosing the Horse Stautes.

26 posted on 03/27/2014 8:46:21 AM PDT by skinkinthegrass (The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun..0'Caligula / 0'Reid / 0'Pelosi)
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To: clintonh8r
ABC News has blocked me from commenting.

American freedom of speech.

27 posted on 03/27/2014 8:47:23 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it, and the Constitution and law mean what WE say.)
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To: ZirconEncrustedTweezers; AppyPappy
AppyPappy ~ But Russia makes Obama look weak

ZirconEncrustedTweezers ~ Barry doesn’t need Russia’s help for that.

What do you mean by that???

Bo Faery photo obama_pixie1.jpg

28 posted on 03/27/2014 8:49:24 AM PDT by null and void ( Everything evil in the world may not be Islamic but everything Islamic is evil.)
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To: tcrlaf
I think what drives the liberal media absolutely bonkers is the “political correctness” assault that they have used successfully for the last decade to destroy anybody that disagrees with their leftist agenda in the United States and Western Europe doesn't do squat for them in Russia. Putin doesn't care, the Russian citizenry doesn't care. Their stories fall on deaf ears and have zero impact. They just can't come to grips with the fact that they've tried all their normal tactics and basically run head first into an unmoving stone wall....
29 posted on 03/27/2014 8:53:38 AM PDT by apillar
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To: factoryrat
Putin is a communist if there ever was one

Really? I thought the hallmark of Communism was destroying a nation, its people, its culture, its history, its economy, and the very idea of decency and normalcy. This, of course, what we have going on in this country. But is this what is happening in Russia?

Putin is a strong man ruler, there is no doubt, but a Communist?

30 posted on 03/27/2014 8:54:25 AM PDT by Count of Monte Fisto (The foundation of modern society is the denial of reality.)
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To: tcrlaf

If the US was a godly nation, we’d re-criminalize homosexuality, if for no other reason than we desired God’s blessings again. But we’ve become too depraved and too demonic to want God’s blessings anymore. Our sin is far, far too important.


31 posted on 03/27/2014 8:56:16 AM PDT by afsnco
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To: tcrlaf
homophobic attacks,

That they insist on using this psychological term which, last i heard, even the AP discourages, attests to their commitment to furthering the homosexual; agenda (which of course, they will deny exist), being driven by Christophobia.

32 posted on 03/27/2014 8:57:55 AM PDT by daniel1212 (Come to the Lord Jesus as a contrite damned+destitute sinner, trust Him to save you, then live 4 Him)
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To: tcrlaf

Maybe they were drafted.


33 posted on 03/27/2014 8:59:00 AM PDT by angcat
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To: Graybeard58

“If a man has sex with another man, even if it’s on a part time basis, he’s queer.”

Yep!

What my father always told me, he said “son, you might pull the lever on a train’s horn, but that damn sure don’t make you a conductor, however, if you suck just one d!ck you are a d!ck sucker for life.”


34 posted on 03/27/2014 9:00:24 AM PDT by areukiddingme1 (areukiddingme1 is a synonym for a Retired U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer and tired of liberal BS.))
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To: CounterCounterCulture

I object to their use of the tern “homophobic.” This term is intentionally meant to be hurtful. My fweelings are hurt. They should use the term “morally correct” or something like that.


35 posted on 03/27/2014 9:06:58 AM PDT by Vehmgericht
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To: tcrlaf

Yep, the #1 issue in the entire world is homosexuality. Our entire foreign policy seems focused on it. Forget about everything else. Does your country allow “gay marriage” and treat anal sodomy like it’s normal and natural? No? Well, America won’t stand for that!

That said, I adamantly oppose violence against homosexuals. I think they’re mentally ill perverts, but I respect their right to do their detestable deeds as consenting adults in private. What they do not have a right to do is tell me and mine we have to give our approval to those deeds. They also cross the line when they try to propagandize my children or demand that government give its stamp of approval to their perversity.


36 posted on 03/27/2014 9:07:36 AM PDT by CitizenUSA (Sodomy and abortion: the only constitutional "rights" cherished by Democrats.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

There are Christians being murdered all over the world, but like you wrote, our media and government are focused like a laser beam on homosexuality. It’s sick—truly pathetic.

I’m sorry, but I’m no longer proud of America. I love her and will work to restore her, but I despise what she’s become. It seems like our government is on the wrong side of virtually every issue these days.


37 posted on 03/27/2014 9:15:41 AM PDT by CitizenUSA (Sodomy and abortion: the only constitutional "rights" cherished by Democrats.)
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To: factoryrat

“One wants to build a nation, the other wants to destroy a nation.”

I think that sums it up. America is on the decline. We’ve even embraced it, because the left thinks America must be fundamentally transformed in order to create their new utopia. You can’t create a one world government with nation states like America standing in the way.


38 posted on 03/27/2014 9:23:43 AM PDT by CitizenUSA (Sodomy and abortion: the only constitutional "rights" cherished by Democrats.)
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To: tcrlaf

Well, it is good that it is shut down. I think I would have preferred that the government shut it down. The way it was shut down makes it seem like those that are responsible broke laws, when it would have been better if the government assumed proper authority and responsibility for shutting it down.


39 posted on 03/27/2014 9:23:44 AM PDT by ForYourChildren (Christian Education [ RomanRoadsMedia.com - a classical Christian approach to homeschool])
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To: daniel1212

“...being driven by Christophobia.”

Being driven by normalphobia! One doesn’t have to be a Christian to understand it’s not normal for a man to bugger another man. Not only that, but anal sodomy is a public health threat. Meaning? Government has a legitimate interest and should discourage homosexuality, because it spreads disease.


40 posted on 03/27/2014 9:33:12 AM PDT by CitizenUSA (Sodomy and abortion: the only constitutional "rights" cherished by Democrats.)
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