Posted on 06/05/2007 10:07:23 AM PDT by Rodney King
"March of the Sexual Majority" to rock Moscow on Wednesday
Jun 5, 2007, 16:31 GMT
Moscow - A week and a half after gay activists were attacked by nationalists across from Moscow's City Hall, a group of rock acts were preparing to play a gala concert in support of heterosexuality.
The March of the Sexual Majority, organized by the lead singer of a Russian rock group called Neschastny Sluchai (Unfortunate Incident), is to include acts ranging from the popular band B-2 to actor Gosha Kutsenko.
Hyped by an ad campaign of posters featuring two gingerbread cookie-shaped figures - the woman with a white circle over her uterus - the concert was to take place Wednesday evening in south Moscow club B1 Maximum.
Organizers say the concert stands for 'life on earth,' while the city's gay community has called it homophobic.
Last month, gay activists were beaten by nationalists and Russian Orthodox demonstrators as they attempted to file a request with Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov to hold a gay pride march.
Police briefly detained a number of the activists, including European lawmakers. Luzhkov earlier this year called gay marches 'satanic.'
Alexei Kortnev, the Neschastny Sluchai lead singer who is in charge of the concert, has told Russian media the event is 'heterophilic' rather than homophobic.
'We are organizing (the concert) exclusively for entertainment purposes, because it's fun,' Kortnev told Moscow radio station City FM.
The concert is to include at least 10 performances, as well as an exhibition of erotic photography, a modelling photo session and games and prizes allowing the audience to 'grow rich not only spiritually but materially,' according to B1 Maximum's web site.
'The March of the Sexual Majority unites those who are concerned about the situation that has developed in modern ethics, aesthetics and the raising of children,' a promotional notice reads.
Most Russians take a hard line against homosexuality, and even President Vladimir Putin has hinted gays could do more to help the country's demographic situation, with Russia losing about 700,000 people each year.
But web site Gay.ru has called the concert 'an attempt to give ... status to the softer forms of homophobia.'
'LGBT citizens are actively discussing the idea of announcing a boycott on the club,' the website said, adding that gays were subjected to insult, discrimination and violence.
By chance, the club that occupied B1 Maximum's space last April was the scene of a clash between gay clubgoers and a group of 150 nationalists and Orthodox believers who blocked the entrance to the club.
Kortnev, for his part, has said if the concert - with tickets ranging from 600 rubles (23 dollars) to 4,000 rubles - was a success, more could come.
'The faces and bodies of glossy magazine covers, the honour and conscience of our epoch, sharing 'natural' values,' will be in attendance, the club's web site promises.
Sometimes the Russians do things where I can just nod satisfied and agree with them.
I take it T.a.T.u won't be performing there.
Yep, but there really aren’t lesbos IRL, just a concoction of a Svengali manager.
Makes me wonder if Russia will ever get around to improve their demographics situation (without importing Muslims).
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TaTu were one and done for export to the West. Faker than fake.. musically and otherwise. NEXT !
I just remember when one of the girls wore a T-Shirt that said “F War” in Russian on The Tonight Show.
And I only know a little bit of Russian, but I sure knew what that shirt said.
They can ‘celebrate’ anal sex but if we want to bring up the fact that we don’t we’re somehow hateful? That’s some fuzzy math if I’ve ever heard any.
Luzhkov is right.
That’s what pains me about Putin. The Western World and Russia need to unite to fight the threat of Islamo-Fascism, but Putin can’t see past the old Russian paranoia about the West.
My Russian Dictionary is more than 40 years old, and not unabridged, so I'm not even going to look to see if these words existed before the iron curtain fell. But I DO appreciate that if a word like "homophobic" can be foisted upon us, so can a word which conveys its opposite, in a positive manner.
I think its time we start using hetrophobia to describe them for in so many ways they are afraid of normal people.
We need some concerts like that here in the USA.
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