Senate Homosexuality: the Thread

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap...s-trim-LGBT-questions-alarming-advocates.html

 

Germany to overturn thousands of convictions of gay men under Nazi - era law.

 

Reparations are cool and good but I dunno maybe next time don't throw people who survived the Holocaust back in jail?

 

Russian police are rounding up, killing, gay men

http://www.newsobserver.com/news/nation-world/world/article142264719.html

What the governor says makes it even worse...

 

Chechnya is still a very messed up police. Ruled by fear.

A decade or so ago, women would be abducted off the street and never seen again.

 

You know, I'm beginning to suspect totalitarian regimes are bad.

Edit: Like, no offense Ghost, but you're saying Kadyrov's statement makes it worse, the man murders political opponents extrajudicially, runs a police state, and essentially answers only to the Putin administration. He's going to say and do whatever the **** he wants barring out and out assassination, he does not give a damn if his statement on his own systemic purge of homosexuals opts for outright denial.

 

Appeal's Court rules that 1964 Civil Rights Act applies to LGBT community.

 

edit: ah, thought it was breaking news today!

 

Ninja'd you by a day Ghost.

To be fair, it probably got lost in all the 'Senate pulling nuclear option' and 'Trump bombs Syria' news.

 

From the UK Daily Mail....

 

I agree, persecution of people for their sexuality is horrible...but you have to take this version of the story with a grain of salt. After all, its from a tabloid. Their job is to create drama and sensationalize things. The regular newspapers take a whole different take on this event.

According to "The Guardian" over 100 suspected gay men have been rounded up and detained. 3 were killed in the process. Absolutely horrible. You see absolutely no mention of concentration camps in any of these stories. The only place you see that is in tabloids, and you just can't rely on them for anything like the truth.

Huffington Post's story

Washington Post

New York Times

 

North Carolina republicans won't quit in trying to deny LGBT rights.

*sigh*

 

Are you ******' kidding me?

 

What's the over under on the US not doing anything about the concentration camps in Chechnya even though they have stated publicly that things like that should be stopped right away?

 

Chechnya is literally in Russia, so...

 

I mean, I'm okay with doing what we should have done in 1945.......

 

Pray tell, what should "we" have done? Betrayed an ally whose people had suffered more than anyone else? Take on a battle-hardened Red Army that often outnumbered all Western armies combined? Fight east of Germany across the vastness of Eastern Europe? Attempt to match the USSR's huge and nigh-indestrutible (because they moved it) industrial capacity? Used the U.S.'s newfound atomic bomb to rain nuclear hellfire onto millions of innocent civilians? Or maybe just conventional bombs? Should we have plunged a continent full of people exhausted by nearly six years of war into another cataclysmic conflict, adding to the 80 or so million dead?

I am interested in your ideas.

 

Is the Daily Mail now considered a reliable source of news? I have been under the impression that it isn't reputable.

Not saying this story isn't true, because something awful happening in Chechnya doesn't surprise me.

Sent from Hell--depending on whether or not it exists.

 

He's saving them for that alt history novel he's been working on.

 

I'm honored you remembered!

 

Transgender 'Survivor' contestant outed by fellow competitor.

Absolutely disgusted, I'm glad the contestant who outed him was eliminated on the same episode.

 

That's pretty bad.

This one is not good either

LGBTQ Students called Cross-Dressers, staffers warned at Oklahoma State Capital

 

No really, Scapro, I'd love an answer to this.