I personally don't think that mixing sports and politics is a good idea. The olympic spirit should be respected and a call for boycott doesn't help the people affected by unjust laws.
Only the athletes will actually be punished and they will suffer because all their training and preparation would be in vane.
Our politicians should speak about human rights and try to make a change and get the media attention in Russia. The problem is that the media is apparently controled by the government. The German foreign minister is the perfect person to act when he visits the Olympics.
The Olympics can be a platform to enhence wider awareness of the human rights issue.

 

I just don't believe that Olympic Games have the power to change anything - as we have seen in 2008 in Peking. I still remember how enthusiastic everyone was and how optimistic that things in China would change afterwards, that the country would open up to the world and more stuff like that. So, have things changed in China since then? Not that I know of.
And it will be the same in Russia. Politicians can go there to represent their countries and talk about human rights issues, but I don't have any hope that this will change anything.

In the context of Putin's anti-gay agenda the German GQ magazine recently made a photo-shooting where they invited various heterosexual famous guys (actors, singers, sportsmen) and made them kiss each other. This is such a great idea!
Here is the making-of vid (German with English subs): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkhvYintpJ0

Moftiss should sell Sherlock to Russian television to secretly undermine homophobia and infect the lovely Russians with Johnlock.  
 

I like the GQ Mundpropaganda campaign very much. Thumbs up, guys. And to Morgan Freeman as well. 

Last edited by SusiGo (December 17, 2013 2:11 pm)

Unfortuately, he's popular with some of his people.

I don't think he really cares about homosexuality. He cares about power and he has problems on the domestic front. That's why he draws the attention towards minorities. Nothing new. The wheel turns...

In civilised societies we are there ot thereabouts.

That is certainly good news @Be!

This is just beautiful:

”The availability of marriage dignifies same-sex love. In my view, the most important benefit of same-sex marriage is the symbol that it holds up to the heterosexual community, not forgetting teenagers apprehensively trying to make sense of their own emerging sexuality, that each of the two types of intimate adult love is as valid as the other.”