Russia: It's The Arts!

Good afternoon. Today on It's The Arts we are talking to Ollie Piers Ding-A-Ling, an exciting young new artist who made this rather striking and powerful image of President Putin and... I think it's best if Ollie explains the symbolism here. Who is the other man?

"I don't know. I don't know much about politics, to be honest."

Well, it really is jolly good all the same. But what exactly are you trying to say here?

"Russia is like so bad right now, yah? And they look like two men kissing! Hur hur hur!"

And this challenges homophobia in what way?

"I put a rainbow flag behind them."

How imaginative.

Now some say the so-called Sochi Boo! movement is just some silly apolitical middle-class children trying to look like they care about something.

Maybe it's just a feel-good faux protest, like shopping at The Body Shop?

"I did it on PhotoShop."

Evidently... 

"It's for my Duke of Edinburgh Award."

Good for you. 

"Putin looks gay!"

Okay, thanks for coming along, Ollie Piers Ding-A-Ling, this surely is our Guernica.

'Do you think the image is problematic? Some feel the image uses trans expression to shame and mock Putin, thereby degrading the trans experience....' See the debate at transadvocate.com

Sochi: So It's Come To This?

Some American idiots protesting against Russia at the Super Bowl! USA! USA! USA!

Everything that's wrong with gay politics right now summed up in one handy photo!
But this is not politics.
It's an outburst of feel-good collective hysteria - Dianabollocks!
'Let me show you how much I really care! Squish squish boo-hoo *sadface*'
Did you not realise these corporations weren't nice moral agents before?
Will everything be okay forever if big business now says they'll play nice about Sochi?
Ooh, les bourgeois!

PS First they came for the adorable stray dogs...
Stray dogs do tend to get put down, yes, it's not some RUSSIAN NAZIS DOG HOLOCAUST!!!

And finally... someone has started one of those stupid online petitions asking Coca-Cola to put a rainbow on their cans!
I'll type that again in case you read it and thought you were drunk or tripping - someone has started one of those stupid online petitions asking Coca-Cola to put a rainbow on their cans!
Surely a new high/low for gay apolitical passive-activist banality?

A Little History Of Gay Politics: From rioting outside Stonewall to this?

Fagburn: I Will No Longer Allow This To Happen!

No longer content to stand idly by and suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune I has decided to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them, and so I has started one of those incredibly effective e-petitions on change.org.
Let's stop this kind of thing once and for all!
Remember - unheard clicks from a mouse can cause tidal waves on shore.