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the situation in russia just days before
the opening ceremonies for the 2014 Olympic Games
is getting incredibly violent with regard to the
attacks on LGBT individuals as you know
russia has basically sanctioned being anti-gay
anti-bullying LGBT individuals they have this
propaganda lower you can't have any so-called
propaganda about a quality or a
anti homophobia or whatever the case may be and Human Rights Watch has put
together
a video that has a bunch of instances have purchased outright violence
being done to LGBT individuals I'm gonna play two excerpts from it back to back
I do warn you that there is there is a violence in these videos and if you or
someone
who is watching with you doesn't want to see that
this is fair warning to turn away or skip ahead by about
35 seconds take a look at this well it did that guy get the bike
must crack tumors she with Nam outward Human Rights Watch has documented
a large number of vicious attacks and aggressive
harassment of LGBT I lesbian gay bisexual and transgender people
in russia sort of like idealistic will build list
it's happening in the contacts opportune we knew
you will die detangled would we see in this video
us are criminal offence s happening in the context of complete impunity
just don't on listings this is
a neo-nazi ideology as is explained in the video
there are people who report going to police in fact one of the individuals
interviewed in that video if you watch the whole thing and we will link to it
on our
YouTube video description they say I was punch I was beaten up
I went to police and the police said you know you your day
so it's kind of normal that you're being attacked doesn't really warrant a
complaint we're not really going to do anything about that
and so many people I know Louis are not going to watch the Olympics in protest
love then being held in a country that has such open discrimination against
LGBT individuals
I honestly don't know how I feel about the boycott verses trying to
appeal for change I guess it doesn't really matter alternately with you watch
the Olympics are not
the the %uh the next Olympics TV contract is already said and you're not
really going to hurt the broadcaster
it's just unbelievable that this is happening in 2014
and we see I know we see in Uganda it does happen it does there plenty of
countries in which is happening
I guess you really wouldn't expect Russia to be one of them but
I don't know I guess russia kinda seems to be like one of our southern states
where
I'm this type of repression has just been going on repression and suppression
has been going on for so long that that it's really hard to break out yet and I
don't wanna implied by my comments that there isn't
incredible LGBT discrimination in the US however
punching someone or attempt physically attacking someone
is at least not overtly legal
because the person is gay we do have hate crime statute
I understand that so many times in parts of the country
these instances are not taken as seriously I get that but at least it is
not
open law while it is open law that in many states
gay couples of course can get married is it is why many state that you can be
fired for being gay I'm not excusing
or minimizing anyway what we have going on in this country there's a long uphill
battle going on
but this this these videos are just absolutely
horrific