Russian politician denounces Apple’s U2 album gift as ‘gay propaganda’ [View all]
A Russian Duma deputy has asked Russia’s attorney general to investigate Apple for distributing “gay propaganda” to minors.
Alexander Starovoitov, a member of the rightwing LDPR party, says Apple spammed youths with illegal content when it released U2’s latest album, Songs of Innocence, to more than 500 million iTunes customers worldwide in September 2014.
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The album cover in question features the band’s drummer, Larry Mullen Jr, embracing his 18-year-old son, Elvis, shirtless. The image was taken by photographer Glen Luchford, and the group says it is a visual metaphor for the album and its theme of “how holding on to your own innocence is a lot harder than holding on to someone else’s”.
But Starovoitov disagrees. He says the U2 album art promotes sex between men, and the newspaper Izvestia, known for its pro-Kremlin reporting, quotes Evgeny Tonky, a lawyer, who says he’s ready to sue Apple for compensation for moral damages on behalf of his own son.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/30/russia-politician-denounces-apple-u2-album-gift-gay-propaganda
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