Posted on 02/10/2014 7:49:08 AM PST by Freelance Warrior
Sochi has one gay club. It is called Mayak, or “light house,” and it is located behind an unmarked door right off one of the city’s lush parks. You have to buzz to be let in. Once you’re in, though, you’re just as likely to encounter a foreign journalist as a local.
As Olympic preparations have ramped up and now that the Games are in full swing, Mayak has been mobbed by foreign journalists eager to capture how the local gays live now that Russia is now internationally known for hating gays.
“Too many,” Zhanna the butch cashier says rolling her eyes when I ask her how many foreign journalists have come through here. “Questions, cameras. And always with the same questions.” Are gays being persecuted? Beaten? “I always tell them that we observe all the laws. No one bothers us and we don’t bother anyone.”
The only people who bother them, it seemed, were the foreign journalists. “People are annoyed because they don’t want to be on screen,” Zhanna explained. Though some people don’t realize they’re being taped—like one gentleman who did a drunken birthday dance recently only to find himself in an American news segment.
“Don’t be scared of the cameramen, my friends! Relax!” she said to Mayak’s regular guests. “These are our international partners!”
“We’ve given over 200 interviews in the last month,” says Mayak owner Andrey Tanichev. Every country has sent its correspondents, he says, “except the Spanish, God bless them.” The Americans have sent the most reporters, but the BBC has set a record: they came by four times.
Tanichev says the law hasn’t affected the club in any way. “The law applies to propaganda among minors, but we’ve never let in people under 21” because of a local law that curfews minors.
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Is there an Olympics going on somewhere? I didn’t notice.
Just as it should be.
I loathe the MSM.
The American MSM’s obsession with deviant sex is bizarre.
if they don’t find what they want, count of the press to fabricate a story out of whole cloth. The Western press (mostly CBS and AP) have a long and sordid history of such.
Who cares for the Olympics, when there're Sochi drunken dances! This is a much bigger topic for the American press.
Western journalists pack the local homosexual lairs? Yea, I’m not shocked, and no I don’t believe that they are just researching stories.
With all of the American “Journalists” there, you just KNEW the local gay bar was going to be the busiest place in town....
“Is there an Olympics going on somewhere? I didn’t notice.”
Not sure, but if you watch NBC, they sure seem p***ed at some guy named Putin, for some reason....
Bump re previous thread.
What is the difference here and there? Our leftist gay-frenzied media.
The way I understand it is that you're really pissed about something (say Obama in this case) but can't really let that out, what you do is project that anger and frustration out on something more politically/socially correct.
It may not fit the liberal American Psychiatry Association's definition, but it's true in this case, by darned.
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