Thursday, August 15, 2013

The Gay Thing: Three Perspectives on Russian Olympics

The issue of Vladimir Putin's draconian anti-gay laws and the upcoming Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia are bubbling out beyond the blogosphere into the mainstream. Below are three clips from MSNBC on Wednesday night, with Harvey Fierstein, Dan Savage and Greg Louganis.  Harvey and Dan took Chris Hayes to task for omissions from a previous story, so it was pretty cool that he had them on for their rebuttals. And Louganis talked to Lawrence O'Donnell, with a bit less edge. All are interesting, so if you don't know much about this particular kerfuffle, here's a way to get a few different perspectives on it.
 

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2 comments:

  1. So, do you support a boycott of the Russian Olympics?

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  2. No. I don't think it's fair to our atheletes, who have trained, and who have a limited span of years to compete.

    I don't have a solution. I do like the idea of a contiuned shaming of the Russian law, a very public airing of how wrong it is. Not sure what else should be done.

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