But this...

What has come of the world? Specifically Russia, actually.
I've been off the old Cold War enemy since they managed to bop-off a journalist and her source last year. But at least that is the regime and the old KGB.
The stuff that has been happening with gay rights there is a freaking disgrace.
Russian gays tried this weekend to hold the country's second ever Gay Pride March. They had been refused permission but vowed to march anyway. According to news.com.au they were trying to march on Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov's office to hand over a memorandum signed by more than 40 members of the European Parliament requesting permission to hold a march in central Moscow. Mr Luzhkov had earlier described the Gay Pride marches as a "work of Satan".
The gay rights activists were assaulted by ultra-nationalists and Orthodox Church hardliners. Look at this babushka go, for crying out loud. Flicking some sort of holy-water-for-nannas over Aussie campaigner Peter Tatchell.

Tatchell was punched to the ground and then arrested shortl after.
Again, according to news Mr Tatchell said Russian authorities had overreacted to the march.
"... We were absolutely right to stage a short peaceful protest, that's all we intended to do. The Russian authorities knew this yet they were treating us as though we were some major criminal threat or terrorist threat to the security of the city," he said.
"There were only about 30 of us. The Russian authorities have acted completely disproportionately."
Now in America there was a famous event known as the Stonewall Riots which paved the way for the rights movement in the same way Rosa Parkes refusing to give up her seat on a bus to a white person started the black rights movement.
In Australia we had our first march in 78.
It's bullshit that in both these countries, equality is still not a given.
What is absolutely unforgiveable bullshit is that Russian gays have to put up with this kind of hatred. Yes there were some hardliner right-wing fucksticks there... but that picture is a freaking grandmother!
I'm going out in solidarity with my Russian comrades.