Putin’s Russia

This is what it’s really like in Putin’s Russia. Systematic kidnapping, assault against, and intimidation, loss of employment, done against anyone perceived to be “gay.” The word “bullying” is completely insufficient to describe what’s going on here. The Putin government is fully aware of these activities and even sometimes directly involved in encouraging it, because the reason for the “anti gay propaganda” laws is not just to cynically build support for the government in a fairly homophobic country, but to recruit and increase the number of pro-government thugs like these people, who are completely comparable to the gangs who attacked students who did sit-ins in the late 1950s and early 60s.