CLINTON FAILS TO CHIDE HOMOPHOBIC MAYOR
LGBT activists are disappointed that US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton failed to address Russian homophobia while inaugurating a monument to gay American poet Walt Whitman in Moscow.
On Wednesday, Clinton attended the ceremony along with Moscow’s mayor, Yuri Luzhkov, who has repeatedly refused to allow gay Pride parades to take place in the city, describing them as “satanic”.
It was hoped that Clinton would bring up the issue at the event where she spoke about Whitman. Instead, she steered clear of the controversy and did not mention Whitman’s sexuality.
“Russia is supposed to be a democracy and she said nothing,” a disappointed Nikolai Alekseev, organiser of Moscow Gay Pride, told the Associated Press.
The monument is located in the gardens of the Moscow State University; the same place where 32 LGBT activists were arrested in May for attempting to hold a Slavic Gay Pride event.
In March Clinton said that the US would actively defend LGBT equality.
“Human rights is and always will be one of the pillars of our foreign policy. In particular, persecution and discrimination against gays and lesbians is something we take very seriously,” she said at the time.
Not cool. Dropping the ball Clinton, just like your boss.
Be fair. So, we’d like the US to stop telling other countries what to do only when it suits us? Whitman’s monument wasn’t put up there because he was gay, but because he was a poet. Let’s not get ahead of ourselves. If Clinton wanted to be critical about Russia’s stance on gay issues, there would be another more appropriate forum.
I agree. There’s a place and a time for everything.
I wish. that people like this will be reincarnatedas the biggest flapping queens in history….walk a milein our shoes, then maybe some understanding will dawn on them.