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YMMV, but check Google Maps to see how many gay bars are there in Moscow.
Yeah, but none of them is openly gay. For example, they can't practically display a rainbow flag near the entrance. These are "underground" bars and clubs.
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Sorry if my wording was confusing; when I wrote "They start dating" I meant to imply a romantic relationship and not friends or roommates. I didn't mean to conflate the two, but my writing was meant to ask the earlier commenter to label or identify what they thought of the behaviours mentioned. That's a mark on my writing if the reader inferred the scenario as roommates.
The point is that by restricting your scenario to "a romantic relationship and not friends or roommates", you're already going way beyond the identification of 'behaviors', and deep into what some people might call ideology. Unless you specifically look at what people do in the privacy of their bedrooms, the behaviors involved in "dating" vs. "hanging out" are pretty much indistinguishable. And LGBT+ folks are very m…
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I think I understand your analogy. An individual LGBT person might not feel represented by elements of LGBT activism in the same way a worker might not about communism. I'm having trouble extrapolating that to what is/isn't ideology though. Could you explain a little more? For example, imagine that two people of the same sex meet in university. They start dating and eventually move in together after a year or two. Fa…
I really don't think the vast majority of people in western societies are bothered by two same sex people living together in a relationship. That is not what the term LGBT ideology encompasses. The ideology part is about having a set of ideas that are not allowed to be challenged and spreading those ideas with zealotry and force on to others. Things like forced pronouns, harassing doctors for not wanting to mutilatin…
No, not really. More like, transgender women using women's toilets and transgender women competing against cisgender women in sports. I do not think that any lgbt activist is petitioning to let actual men in women's toilets (although I do not really see what the issue is. My mother multiple times used the men's toilets because she found them to be cleaner and nobody was annoyed with that. As for women in sports, it depends if you want to find the world's best footballer or the world's best female footballer - the first should have people regardless of gender compete in it, the second should only have women. In the same spirit there could be a competition for cisgender women only)
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It also said sorry for offending people very quickly afterwards, and more to the point has tiny and declining attendance and minimal impact on attitudes towards homosexual tourists. The idea that it's more hostile and influential on the subject of homosexuality than, say, the Catholic church in most Catholic majority countries doesn't really stack up.
It's the official state religion and is represented in the house of lords. That's real actual power, albeit moderated by the rest of the HoL. And, while they apologised, they stuck by that announcement. We also have Catholic churches here, who've made similar pronouncements about relationships of gay people. We've had a long running demonstration outside primary schools by Muslim people complaining about age appropri…
Wait, what? Do you have a source for this? Because if it is true it is outrageous.
Israel is probably one of the few countries other than the USA were LGBTQ+ people were attacked and killed in public or in private spaces. An ashkenazi religious Jew stabbed and killed a girl in a gay pride event in Jerusalem, and the government coalition is made up of some of the most externally homophobic (also Ashkenazi) MPs. Israel has an image of tolerance because of TLV, which was mostly a tourism driven policy…
A simple Google Search proves this comment completely wrong... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Significant_acts_of_violence_a...