A friendly reminder that Russia was taking part in Eurovision 2003 with a lesbian group named Tatu, which is a shortening hint to the Russian phrase “Эта девочка любит ту девочку”, meaning “This girl loves that girl”. The group was very popular here and they acted freely kissing and hugging over their concerts and in the real life. The audience for years didn’t know it was made for the group’s stage image, so that they loved the singers just the way they were.
Please, don’t claim Russia a country of homophobes, the government political course wasn’t always like that and I hope it will change soon. Still, the society hasn’t change. We can barely say what exactly is this new “gay propoganda”, because people do not pay attention to a stupid doubtful law and can’t forbid you to love someone.
It’s just a pity to see so much hatred in the posts connected to Russia, meshing politics and people living here in one item to be hated, blamed as rasict and homophobic.
