Love And Let Love
Posted by Michelle Moquin on August 21st, 2013
Good morning!
The passage of the Homosexual Propaganda legislation in Russia is just horrific. I recently read about a horrifying new video that has hit the web this past weekend. The video which has been removed from YouTube, documented what appears to be a brutal attack on a Russian transgender woman by five men after she had allegedly been ambushed in a public park.
Although, the video is no longer available, here is the write. This is just so sick and so sad.
Graphic Video of Russian Trans Woman Being Beaten Surfaces Online
A number of news sources are reporting that a graphic video showing what appears to be a Russian transgender woman being attacked has surfaced on the Internet.
Five men allegedly ambush and brutally attack the unnamed transgender woman in a public park during broad daylight. In the video, the men knock the victim to the ground, kick and punch her repeatedly while laughing and talking to each other in Russian. They also drag her around the park causing the woman’s skirt falls off. The men then kick her in the buttocks as she crawls on all fours, trying to escape. There also appears to be a witness who stands around, taking no action against the attack.
The video is titled, “Violent attack on Trans woman by five men in Russia,” and was uploaded by YouTube user GayWaterford on Aug. 19.
“This video is of anti-LGBT activists in Russia, five men brutally beating a trans woman in broad daylight, in a public park,” the user wrote in the video’s description. “The video, posted on popular Russian social networking site VK, appeared on a page titled Straights for Equality, a group advocating for LGBT rights. The intention was to highlight the persecution of LGBT people in Russia.
“In the video, five men kick the woman in the head and body, and throw her around the park, whilst one of them films the attack. They also remove some of her clothes, and tear her underwear before she runs off,” the description reads. “The title of the video refers to the trans woman as a “homosexual”, and it also says ’view from 16 years old.’ It is unclear how old the victim in the video is, and its origin.”
Towards the end of the video, the woman appears to escape.
The video comes shortly after Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the country’s controversial“homosexual propaganda” law on June 30.
According to America Blog, the Russian government “refused to investigate” crimes like the one allegedly depicted in the clip. But the Moscow Times recently published an article, taking notice of anti-gay crimes by groups who lure LGBT teens looking to hook up with older men. One of these groups, which has made headlines, is called the Occupy Gerontophilia, which means having a sexual preference for the elderly.
“At least one official has drawn attention to the potential harm being done by the Occupy Gerontophilia group,” the Moscow Times writes. “Federation Council Senator Konstantin Dobrynin appealed to Investigative Committee head Alexander Bastrykin and Prosecutor General Yury Chaika over the matter earlier this month, saying a probe should be opened to determine whether the group’s leader and members could be held criminally liable for ’coercion to perform acts of a sexual nature.’ The charge carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison.”
The report goes on to say that groups like Occupy Gerontophilia use the Russian social media site Vkontakte to lure LGBT teens. The site’s officials have “been responsive to the increasing public outcry over the group’s activities, blocking its official page,” however. The article then questions why it’s taken so long for authorities to respond to these anti-gay attacks, writing that some have suggested the reaction from officials “isn’t sincere.”
“It’s pure PR,” former Pussy Riot lawyer Mark Feigin told the Moscow Times. “The fact that the perpetrators are minors makes it very difficult to prosecute them.” Feigin added that the criminal charge Dobrynin called for would likely not hold up in court.”
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Readers: Putin needs to be put out. Why can’t people live and let live? Love and Let love? Blog me.
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August 21st, 2013 at 1:20 pm
“The new agenda must ensure the equal rights of women and girls, their full participation in the political, economic and public spheres and zero tolerance for violence against or exploitation of women and girls.” – UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon
Gomawo
August 22nd, 2013 at 9:11 am
Russians are ignorant barbarians.
August 22nd, 2013 at 9:14 am
I don’t condone this at all but come on people.
Who in Russia doesn’t realize that Russians don’t play that gay sh!t.
In Russia, if you’re a man that likes to play dress-up, be smart and do it at home with your other little sissy friends. Don’t go out in the street like that. What do these idiots think is going to happen to them?
August 22nd, 2013 at 9:15 am
ANY citizen should be free to go out into the streets of their home nation without fear of being beaten. Who CARES what they’re wearing (provided they’re covered up)?
August 22nd, 2013 at 9:16 am
It’s called societal norms. Years ago most companies required that all men wear business suits and women dresses or skirts. It has become more relaxed but there has to be norms that people are expected to follow.
Liberals cannot just expect to do whatever they want to because it makes them feel good. And why do you draw the line at covering up? Hell why can’t people just run around naked if they WANT to?
August 22nd, 2013 at 10:01 am
This is only the very tiny tip of a very large iceberg.
One of the most vile aspects of the actual applications of the “anti-propaganda law” is that it crushes communication, rendering communication between gay people and the reportage of even such incidents liable to prosecution.
August 22nd, 2013 at 10:03 am
Burk#3;
A “man who likes to play dress-up” would be a transvestite, but not transgender. Lots of straight people enjoy cross dressing.
But ANY citizen should be free to go out into the streets of their home nation without fear of being beaten. Who CARES what they’re wearing (provided they’re covered up)?
You don’t solve this problem (the violence) by asking the victims to hide in their homes. Instead, you let them DEMAND that they be free to walk outside, free to be themselves, and then you wait for the barbarians to simply GET USED TO IT. They will.
August 22nd, 2013 at 10:04 am
Nobert, in Nazi Germany the societal norm was to wear a military style uniform with a swastika arm band and greet people by saying “Heil Hitler” and if you didn’t you were sent to a Concentration Camp along with the Jews,people of Eastern Europe, the gypsies and the LGBT folks and that is what is going in Russia now under Das Fuhrer, Herr Putin with his own set of “Brown Shirts” doing his violent bidding to innocent people just for being who they are.
August 22nd, 2013 at 10:05 am
Turner, Ain’t it great!
August 22nd, 2013 at 10:12 am
I’m not a liberal, but I understand what being Transexual is all about because I am one. And far as “feeling good” goes, should we feel bad? That’s having to present in what you’d call the “Correct” or appropriate gender makes us feel like.
I drank too much, I often wondered about suicide. Drug and alcohol problems are common among Transgendered people. Yet, Transgendered people can be amazingly productive Productive on the job.
The reason you’re using your computer is because of a Transexual woman named Lynn Conway. Go check out her website and scroll down to Transexual Women’s Successes and read about some successful TS Women.
Regards, Terri
August 22nd, 2013 at 10:32 am
Norbert, You said, “Liberals cannot just expect to do whatever they want to because it makes them feel good.”
But I guess you think it’s okay for conservatives to expect to just beat people up because it feels good. Why should they not be restrained as much as liberals then?