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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.

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

‘Has’ or ‘Was’?


41 posted on 03/27/2014 9:42:23 AM PDT by servo1969
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To: Gen.Blather

Funny thing about that is, once the left have full control of this country, the LGBT community will be the first ones purged from the government.

Happens in every leftist society.


42 posted on 03/27/2014 9:47:44 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz ("Heck of a reset there, Hillary")
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To: CitizenUSA

“You can’t create a one world government with nation states like America standing in the way.”

Or Russia, for that matter. Even China. They are not getting into the jacuzzi with the transnationals.


43 posted on 03/27/2014 9:51:12 AM PDT by Psalm 144 (FIGHT! FIGHT! SEVERE CONSERVATIVE AND THE WILD RIGHT!)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

Indeed. One of the Soros-Obamacons on FR was complaining about the oppression of homosexuals in the Russian Federation. Homosexuality was a serious FELONY in the Soviet Union. They are more tolerated than in the past, but generally still not approved of.


44 posted on 03/27/2014 9:54:23 AM PDT by Psalm 144 (FIGHT! FIGHT! SEVERE CONSERVATIVE AND THE WILD RIGHT!)
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To: areukiddingme1

LOL


45 posted on 03/27/2014 10:04:22 AM PDT by windcliff
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To: Count of Monte Fisto
Putin is a strong man ruler, there is no doubt, but a Communist?

More like an oligarch. A "czar", if you like.

46 posted on 03/27/2014 10:16:48 AM PDT by Albion Wilde ("The commenters are plenty but the thinkers are few." -- Walid Shoebat)
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To: Albion Wilde

Communist ideology is just a marketing program aspiring oligarchs use to obtain total control of a society.


47 posted on 03/27/2014 10:31:14 AM PDT by Justa
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To: lodi90; Jack Hydrazine
“Russians love their bath houses. Big party of their culture. It’s called banya over there. No doubt plenty of faggotry happens in them.”

Been going to Russian bathhouses for decades and have never seen anything gay.

Except for dressing rooms, they are co-ed. Drinks are also served and/or BYOB. A great place to pickup fit Russian women.

It's basically like a beach for cold climates.

48 posted on 03/27/2014 10:42:38 AM PDT by varyouga
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To: tcrlaf

Well, hell, this makes all of Putler’s actions justified, doesn’t it?


49 posted on 03/27/2014 10:49:49 AM PDT by Red White and Blue patriot (USA all the way. Love it or Leave it. Ted Cruz 2016)
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To: varyouga

Wow!


50 posted on 03/27/2014 11:08:36 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: tcrlaf

Invade Georgia...Invade Crimea...Invade Estonia...Invade Latvia...Invade Poland...Invade Czech Republic...

Anti-gaystapo activities in Obama’s world. This means war!!!


51 posted on 03/27/2014 11:31:19 AM PDT by Organic Panic
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To: Flycatcher

not to mention less anal prolapse cases.


52 posted on 03/27/2014 11:39:15 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: tcrlaf

Obviously, Russian homosexuals have not yet secured the sympathy of their most powerful allies: straight women.


53 posted on 03/27/2014 11:47:11 AM PDT by papertyger (if disdain of homosexual behavior is "bigotry," is it any wonder hostility to Islam is "racism?")
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To: tcrlaf

Now they need to burn the building, to kill any residual pathogens.


54 posted on 03/27/2014 12:40:01 PM PDT by fwdude ( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
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To: CitizenUSA
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.

But they will argue, however perverse, that it is normal for them - you are just too "heteronormative" - and STIs are a result of "unsafe sex" (any sex that will send you to Hell is), and point out the STI rate among heterosexuals and adultery, and with overpopulation then homosexuality is an evolutionary adaption. And even animals do it, so how "natural can you get?" Thus they can also justify having their mate for dinner as well.

Without a proven beneficial transcendent material moral standard then man's objectively baseless reasoning can justify anything. Of course, it is imperative that standard be worthy of being so, and this country had its Constitution and a moral foundation that owes more to the Bible than any other book. Something about our Constitution being made only for a moral and religious people.

Not only that, but anal sodomy is a public health threat.

You mean the main cause behind half a million American's death, and for 79% of new HIV cases today. And the estimated lifetime cost of treatment for one person with HIV is $379,668 (in 2010 dollars). What if any other consensual act typically resulted in such a greatly increased incidence of infectious diseases and premature death. Would it be promoted as normative and the practitioners be given equal and special rights?

Yet "how does that effect you" they ask. And with the ACA the day could come when they gov. decides you are raising your kids in a psychologically unhealthy environment by teaching them homosexuality is wrong.

55 posted on 03/27/2014 12:50:01 PM 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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