Saturday, February 8, 2014

Queer, from Russia, with and without love

RantWoman attempts to warm up to Olympics fever and considers:

Reflections from women of Russian descent on mixed feelings, family, queerness
http://www.autostraddle.com/from-russia-with-messy-complicated-and-sometimes-conditional-love-218998/

Really disturbing stuff from Human Rights Watch
http://www.buzzfeed.com/lesterfeder/this-short-film-shows-just-how-terrifying-life-is-for-lgbt-p?sub=2972001_2382377

The Mayor of Sochi"Sochi has no gay people"
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-25675957

and finally:
The Canadian Institute for Diversity and Inclusion on the Luge
http://www.buzzfeed.com/maycie/canadas-response-to-russias-russias-anti-lgbt-propaganda-law


By way of reminiscence on similar topics:
RantWoman thanks Ferrener Husband again for long ago recognizing that RantWoman would probably  try to have a truthful conversation with people Ferrener Husband must have known would not be safe to have such a conversation around. RantWoman also sincerely thanks the lovely couple she is still in touch with for being really gracious alternative lodging when Plan A proved untenable.

Well, RantWoman can almost forgive one of the host couple for wanting to fire a teacher at the school the host was principal of. The reason: the teacher was too flamboyantly gay. So last century?

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