Saturday Night Show: Homophobia

This proved quite the hit with our fellow Irish brethren last night.
An in-depth discussion on "homophobia" on one of Ireland's most popular TV shows.
I've put "homophobia" in inverted commas because apparently it may not exist.
Relive the love this programme generated on Twitter by searching #SatNightShow.
Britishers etc may watch it here.

PS The show also features Pussy Riot - or as the presenter calls them, "the girls"!

Thanks to Wolfgang and marvell78. x

Clicktivism: Political Retards

In Moscow, Pride marches have just been banned for 100 years. Anti-gay activists are using the Russian government's gay gag laws to sue Madonna for $10,000,000 because she spoke up for the LGBT community. And punk band Pussy Riot has been sentenced to 2 years in prison for their musical protest – deemed "homosexual propaganda." 
Add your voice to the international outcry against Putin before he attends the September United Nations Leaders meeting in New York...

Allout.org

Oh crap, how politically retarded would you have to be to think signing an e-petition is going to make any difference?
President Putin, see my online signature and tremble!
No wonder the world's fucked. 

PS And there's an error in every one of the charges above - well done.

Pussy Riot: Guilty!!?

Looks like three years.
One year for singing a song, presumably.
One for singing it in a church.
And one for being rude about your president.
Oh, those Russians...

PS And in other news today, they've also upheld a ban on gay marches in Moscow for the next 100 years. The police used to stand by and watch as neo-Nazis used to beat up people on pride marches in Moscow, how ironic that Pussy Riot get imprisoned for "hooliganism" for singing a song.

Update: Two years! In a penal colony!!
A supporter interviewed on PM outside the courtroom said all the - otherwise inspirational - support in the West may have made things worse by angering the "strong man" leader, Putin, who wants to be shown to be standing up against "foreign interference".
Always a potential problem in international campaigns - it's been often said about support for LGBTs in, say, Zimbabwe - usually by African activists...
Update: Or in Uganda.

Pussy Riot: Free Pussy Riot!

Today, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Maria Alekhina and Yekaterina Samutsevich - three members of the Russian group Pussy Riot - begin their Moscow show trial.
In March they were arrested and charged with "hooliganism" after their band performed a song in Russia's main Orthodox cathedral that mocked President Putin. 
The women are clearly being made examples of in an attempt to discourage dissent and the growing protest movement against the Putin regime.
They face up to seven years in prison.
For singing a song FFS.

freepussyriot.org
Index On Censorship interview.

• This preliminary hearing begins at 7.30am BST and will be streamed live here.