I have no intentions of watching the games, and I encourage everyone to make their own choices about watching. I just don’t however, want to feed into the fallacy that if we all fail to watch, it is somehow a “win” for the LGBTQ community. It isn’t. There is no strategy that creates a win for the LGBTQ Community, and especially not for the Russian LGBTQ community.
This morning I received a Facebook chat message from Michael Lucas. He wanted to know why I was still friending a Russian gay activist, Nikolay Alexeyev: Sorry to bother, but how can you still be friends with Nikolay Alexeyev after his Jew hating remarks on FB? http://americablog.com/2013/09/russian-gay-activist-alexeyev-huge-new-anti-semitic-meltdown-facebook-twitter.html I friended Alexeyev after the news about Russia’s Gay Propaganda law started to dominate LGBT news. While some were calling for the IOC to pull the Winter Olympics out of[Read More…]
Some who are pushing for gay athletes to compete at the Russian Olympics in Sochi, justify their efforts by pointing out that at least Russian gay activist, Nikolai Alekseev wants to see the Olympics there so that it can be used to draw attention to the plight of queer people in Russia. But now questions are arising as to if Alekseev is all right or if something has happened to him. (bolding is mine) Something strange[Read More…]
I want to address first, the fallacy that Johnny Weir and Blake Skjellerup have any business thinking their idea means much just because they are Olympic athletes. If Blake would choose to remain in the closet out of financial considerations, why would he think that having one’s life placed in danger is not a reason to put a halt to the Olympics being held in Russia? They would do better to pressure the IOC to move the Games to a safer place.