Posted on 11/08/2013 12:15:49 PM PST by klpt
Germany has granted a young doctor asylum due to his sexual orientation, after he faced persecution and social exclusion in Russia. Thanks to a recent EU ruling, other gays and lesbians will likely to follow. Pavel is gay. He is open about his sexuality, a fact which used to continuously cause outrage in Russia. "It is very unpleasant to be living in a society that thinks you are sick and backward, and where you can be fired from work just for being gay," he said.
"At any moment, someone can chop your head off," that's how he described the fear many homosexuals in Russia have to cope with on a daily basis.
The 26-year-old trained doctor came to Germany as an as asylum seeker in April 2013. He turned to Quarteera when he arrived. Quarteera, an organization for Russian-speaking homosexuals, bisexuals and transsexuals in Germany, didn't give him much hope of staying. They told him that Germany had yet to grant asylum status to a Russian attempting to escape the homophobic atmosphere in Russia. But Pavel decided to try and has been allowed to stay in Germany.
"Homosexuals in Russia have never had it easy"
Discrimination against homosexuals is openly accepted in Russia. In June 2013, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a nationallaw against "homosexual propaganda," which caused outrage in Germany and in other EU states. The law has made it illegal to portray homosexuality in a positive light in the presence of minors or in the media. The crime is punishable by imprisonment or monetary fines.
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According to the last snowstorms that came through the MidWest, it is reported that this country has more queers than steers.
Stay home, we have too darn many as it is now!
I have dibs on the brunette.
Make me sing and shout!
testing...
That right there - and the feckless, cowardly politicians who don't have the balls to 'just say no' - is the root of all the calamities crashing over Europe like tsunami waves these days.
Pussy riot perhaps? Didn’t one of them get sent to the Gulag?
They can come join our Army.
“Evidently it’s not so good to be a Jew there”
Says who, you? The last survey done showed that 60% of Jewish people like living in Russia. I did contract work for Israeli companies in 2011, and we did a good amount of business with Russian companies.
Not just a double double entendre, but also a film reference from 1966. Carl Reiner, Eva Marie Saint, Theodore Bikel, Jonathan Winters, and Alan Arkin.
I tried to take some girl to see it but she said she didn't like communists. Actually, I think she didn't like me.
Therefore, naturally, 60% of Jews live in Russia (and like it) and a good amount of business occurs between Israel and Russia.
I am a Jew and I have lived in both Israel and Russia, but I am sorry I have been so ignorant on this issue. In my defense I can only say that I had not seen the latest survey.
Whatever floats your boat, buddy. Good luck.
I’m not sure if it is right or wrong, but someone told me there are more immigration into Russia from Israel than vice versa since 2004.
Bullcrap. If Russians were serious about homosexuals they could have been started purging their pop stars.
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