“Hunted”
The following is a trailer for a documentary airing on Channel 4 in the UK. Entitled “Hunted”, it is a harrowing look at the lives gays lead in Putin’s Russia.
The Mirror newspaper has a write up on the documentary.
She discovered only 1% of homosexuals are openly gay, and the reason for this is very simple.
Vigilante gangs are on the lookout for targets and trying to infiltrate gay chat rooms or find gay men on social media.
Once found, the men are lured to a meeting place and captured like animals before they are beaten and filmed. It is common for them to have urine poured on them and to be left with permanent injuries.
But most of the gangs believe they are doing “good work”, link gay men with paedophiles, and see no shame in what they are doing.
This is the reality facing gay Russians. As we transition into the winter Olympics in the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi, the games will be held in a country whose president says the country must cleanse itself of homosexuality, even as he makes assurances that gays will be welcome for the Olympics.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has offered new assurances to gay athletes and fans attending the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics next month. Yet he defends Russia’s anti-gay law by equating gays with pedophiles and says Russia needs to “cleanse” itself of homosexuality if it wants to increase its birth rate.
The Games will be held in a country where its legislature passed anti-gay laws in 2013 criminalizing disseminating gay “propaganda” to minors, out of a fear that doing so will make those children gay, with, of course, right wing US pundits applauding and lauding countries like Russia.
More at:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/channel-4s-hunted-documentary-deserves-3111510
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