Last night I walked back from the theatre in central London for maybe a couple of miles openly hand in hand with my partner, Alastair, sharing a romantic kiss by the Christmas Tree in Trafalgar Square and just enjoying being a normal couple in love in one of the greatest cities on earth. I did not feel afraid of other people or of the authorities. OK, there is always the lingering worry that we might encounter homophobia - it isnt eradicated by any means - but we are blessed to live in a country with legislation that respects our relationship as equal and intrinsically valuable, and to live in a liberal, cosmopolitan world city. This news from Russia is desperately sad. Futile, self-defeating, ignorant and cruel scapegoating. Russia was a nation that once had a great soul and produced art that rocked the world. Now it inflicts a deep wound on itself as well as each marginalised, victimised, persecuted individual. Gay Russians in fear as attacks increase Sarah Rainsford reports from St Petersburg on the increase in homophobic attacks, after a law banning anti-gay propaganda was passed in 2013. BBC.CO.UK
Posted on: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 09:18:42 +0000
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