In the likely event that the Olympics don’t move someplace else, what’s the back-up plan?
The thing about gay rights is, they protect everyone’s right–gay or straight–to a consensual, nobody’s-business-but-your-own sex life.
So if you don’t fight dirtbags like Putin [1] when they come after gays for their private lives, you have no protection the day they decide they want to come after you. And there’s a hair’s-breadth between hassling gays for having sex and hassling women for having sex.
Conversely, protecting the rights and dignity of G/Ls protects us all in this regard.
Anyway, my idea (which obviously needs some fleshing out) is, what if instead of taking it to Putin, we addressed ourselves to the good people of Russia?
Russians presumably like to get it on as much as the rest of us, and probably resent having religious a-holes, politicians [2] and secret police sticking their noses in.
What if we point out to them–as described above–that they all have a dog in this fight?
Apparently, you can do time in Russia for speaking of homosexuality as if it’s not some terrible thing. But most of us aren’t in Russia, no?
[1] Or Scalia, or Santorum, or the Tea Party.
[2] Seriously, if Putin was outed, how surprised would you be? How many photos of him have you seen that look like he was posing for a gay calendar?
