There was an LGBT event at the Sakharov Center in Moscow today. Once it started, the building was surrounded by Orthodox activists swinging crosses and tossing eggs. No one, including staff, was able to leave the building for several hours after the event was over. It took dozens of calls to the police to get them to come and create a safe passage corridor out of the building. One of the centers straight staffers wrote in Facebook in the middle of all this, I feel bad for these kids [meaning the LGBT activists] living with this kind of fear in this country at all times. Exactly. Thats what strikes me most about every conversation I have with a newly arrived queer asylum seeker here: they talk about the sense of shedding the fear - while being a not-quite-legal alien in New York City.
Posted on: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 19:33:49 +0000