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Well, since most of the singers are presumably Swedes and only lip-synching to the Russian lyrics, it might've been more offensive if they waved the Russian flag in order to выдавать себя за...

Hmmm, according to Викицитатник, Faina Ranevskaya was also the originator of the quip: "Гомосексуализм — это не извращение. Извращение — это хоккей на траве и балет на льду!"

Which reminds me a...

I hit "Like" after reading the Википедия link in Юрка's .sig -- I'd never heard of the "Эффект Даннинга -- Крюгера" in either Russian or English. Clearly, Юрка has a healthy sense of self-deprecating...

Once a non-believer came before the Rev. Scott Lively, and said unto him, "Reverend, can you summarize the whole Christian Bible while I'm standing on one foot?"

The Rev. Lively smiled calmly and...

To put it another way, if you mean to ask about public attitudes towards same-sex sodomy between men OR between women, you need to use the actual phrase "same-sex sodomy between men OR between women"...

The only problem with this Pew survey is that the word "homosexuality" may be subject to difficulties or ambiguities in translation.* And also the words "accept," and "society," and "should". Though...

PS. Another equally (in)famous scene from Spartacus -- the aristocratic Roman general Crassus (Laurence Olivier) asks his slave Antoninus (Tony Curtis) "Do you prefer to eat snails or oysters?" But...

And incidentally, Yuvakaeva said she opposed any boycott or big rainbow-flag demonstration -- instead she suggested that Olympic athletes of any sexual orientation could simply hold hands with...

A little detail I just read in the Washington Blade (easily one of the "top five" LGBT newspapers in America) -- a five-person Russian delegation visiting the US to discuss planning for the Sochi...

And even if you're NOT looking for one, this amazing 11-minute "claymation" film (UK, 1995, directed by Barry Purves) depicting Achilles and Patroklos as living statues is definitely worth a look:
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I enjoyed reading this, but I certainly don't agree with everything the author said!

Regarding the percentage of the population that is bisexual, Kinsey and his disciples argued that sexual...

Make a statement to whom? Among some gay men -- at least in the English-speaking world -- Cher has a sort of cult following as a "Diva," but do most non-gay Russians today even care who she is or...

At the Olympics, they don't give out gold medals only; they also award silver and bronze medals. This doesn't take away from the honor of the gold medalist; it simply recognizes that the 2nd and 3rd...

It should be noted that this was apparently an "Uzbek-on-Uzbek" crime, which adds another dimension to it. Or, then again, maybe it's just the same "dimension" -- straight Russians are particularly...

GOOD!

Well, as I've said, it could be fortunate if Russia follows its own path, because we've ALSO seen in America what happened когда ЛГБТ-Сообщество "выплеснуло и ребёнка вместе с водой".

The...

One other point for Hanna, Юрка, Eledhwen, et al. Do you know what the word "marranos"/"марраны" means? If you don't know the term and its history, it might be worth your time to read the links.
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Ссылка прикольная -- спасибо! (I've downloaded the page to read at my leisure... alas, I'm a lot slower in Russian!)

Короче -- the one most important thing I wish that Юрка and Eledhwen and Hanna and others would understand is this: these Russian LGBT people holding the "From Russia with Love" posters are very much...

И это -- своего рода "рекламирование гетеросексуальности":

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И сегодня, даже кодга на автобусах в некоторых западных городах...

I don't know what the equivalent would be in Russian, but in English there's a saying:

"A fish doesn't know that it lives in water."

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Just to make my previous post more clear: I am not denying that Russian LGBT activists are getting some help from foreign sources. Sometimes this help comes in the form of "strategic advice" (for...

I would think that if one of your friends is pointing a camera at you and saying "Smile!", that bloody well qualifies as a видимая причина!!!

Unless it was an invisible CIA camera, I suppose...
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А если русский на улице как-то улыбается случайно, тогда что дальше? Он превращается в летучую мышь и улетает?

So when the Western press talks about homophobia in Jamaica, or in the Arabian Gulf countries, or in Uganda, do you think that's also part of some conspiracy to ruin Russia's image?