Where To March...

Moscow's Mayor Bans Gay Parade, Cites Violence News Advocate.com

"The mayor of Moscow said the city will not allow gay pride marches to take place on this year's May Day holiday, Agence France-Presse reported Wednesday. Mayor Yury Luzhkov has been an opponent of gay pride marches, once calling them "Satan's work." A spokesperson for the mayor told reporters that a permit for the parade is being denied because of Russian society's opposition to the "gay lifestyle and philosophy." He also said the government wanted to avoid what it assumed would be widespread violence as a reaction to the parade."

And why don't the leaders of the world protest? Tell Putin & Medvedjev to start considering human rights? Is Moscow outside of the realm of humanity?

Perhaps it would be a good idea to get up a gay parade for Beijing? Or do you think they just might prohibit it, too? Or just imprison everyone who voices the idea?

What about gay athletes at the Olympics? How about a good old fashioned love-in for LGBTs on Tianamen Square?

How about getting Obama to accept gay marriage? How about making such issues non-issues everywhere? What does Hillary say? I won't even ask about Johnny Rep McC.

What this kind of denigration and prohibition of gays by political office-holders leads to you can find poignant examples of on the website linked here:

The National Day of Silence is to focus attention on derogatory treatment of gays and lesbians in schools (in the US, but the message is international). One example is the fate of Lawrence King, an 8th-grader who, because of his sexual orientation, was shot dead by a classmate in his own school on Feb. 12. April 25 has been set as a day of student actions to encourage schools and classmates to address LGBT-bashing.