Wednesday 29 October 2014

Johnny Weir: To Russia With Love


In the media frenzy leading up to the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, LGBT athletes and activists must choose whether to risk their own safety by speaking out against Russia's anti-gay laws. Cameras follow the experiences of outspoken figure skater and commentator Johnny Weir, tennis legend and official U.S. Olympic delegate Billie Jean King, as well as several openly gay Olympic hopefuls and Russian LBGT activists.

You can watch it here - Fagburn has no idea what it's like.

PS Unfortunately EPIX is only available in the United States and its territories.

Update: 'I wanted to have more of a complicated perspective on Russia from a gay sports celebrity who loves Russia and didn’t think of Russia in terms of binaries, like ‘Russia = bad for gays’ and leave it at that,” director and activist Noam Gonick on the Daily Beast.

AMERICAN GAYS NOT LIKE COMPLICATED! MUST BOMB RUSSIA! BURN JOHNNY WEIR! UGG! 
Posted by Fagburn at 10:25:00
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2 comments:

  1. BK29 October 2014 at 11:52

    "PS Unfortunately EPIX is only available in the United States and its territories."

    If you have firefox you can use an add-on like 'Media Hint' that lets you watch stuff on US-only sites like Hulu, for example. I just checked the link to the above film and though it lets me through you have to pay $6 or thereabouts via your american service provider or somesuch.

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