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Rainbow NewsVideo against homophobic law in St.Petersburg hits the Internet - and becomes attacked
7 Mar. 2012
British LGBT portal Pinkpaper.com notes that the petition on the site AllOut.org, which contains a call to the governor of St. Petersburg Georgy Poltavchenko to not sign the law "Do not say gay" that has been passed by the Legislative Assembly has become a real internet hit. And at the same time - the object of so-called "trolling", performed by homophobic.
The site AllOut posted the video, called "Russia: don't go there," portrating a young girl with a sealed mouth. The girl holds something like a notebook, turning page after page: words on the pages describe what is happening in St. Petersburg, and calls to not visit this city and Russia in protest against the homophobic law. Simultaneously, the video is meant as a warning to the governor Poltavchenko. The scene is accompanied by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's music, who is also mentioned in the video as a great composer and virtuoso musician, while being - oops! - gay.
To date, the petition has been signed by over 86,000 people, the video viewed more than 200,000 times, and the numbers are still growing. The description posted on YouTube below the video says: "The Russian legislature has just passed a draconian censorship law, which imposes exorbitant fines for everything that can be interpreted as "promoting homosexuality" in St. Petersburg - the second largest city in Russia. Reading, writing, speaking, or making reports relating to gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender matters, will be impossible because it is regarded as a criminal offense. This prohibition of "propaganda" will also apply to gay pride parades, literature, theater and community-oriented organizations that work with the LGBT."
Despite the video receiving considerable support and a lot of feedback over 5 500 YouTube users said that they did not like it, and left comments that have only recently been removed as containing hate speech and incitement to violence. This was made possible with the contribution of YouTube users, who marked these comments as spam. Representatives of AllOut, who had posted the video on the server, have hard times figuring out their content, since the majority of homophobes, of course, wrote in Russian.
The day before of the organization AllOut issued a statement that read: "Once we mark this video as a protest against the new Russian law, that intends to censor everything related to gay men, thousands and thousands of people left the horrible, hateful comments like "Die, fa*ts" and "Queers and D*es should be burned in gas chambers." These reviews were so terrible that many Russian-speaking users asked us to disable the ability to comment, and that we did, but only for one day. Then our team decided to re-open comments to give you a chance to set a different tone to the conversation."
This is the video on YouTube. The petition on the AllOut site is here, still collecting signatures.
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