As I have previously written, Labrys was preparing a videocast in response to the homophobic and insulting statements presented by Russian Orthodox Church. The videocast was uploaded to Kyrgyz video portal and has been watched 409 times within the first 15 hours of being up. The video in Russian features Gulnara Kurmanova of AntiAIDS Association who is a strong LGBT ally, journalist Bektour Iskender, priest Maksim Bratukhin and head of LGBT Organization ‘Labrys’ Anna Kirey. Together they explore the view of religion on LGBT and discuss the possibility of opening a dialog on LGBT issues which most organizations are silent about. The videocast can be viewed here
The worrying trend that I see in this situation is that the word ’sodomite’ might become part of everyday language and was presented as synonymous to LGBT in most of the media coverage of the press conference by Russian Orthodox Church.
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Global Voices Online » Kyrgyzstan: LGBT and Allies Reactions to Russian Orthodox Church homophobic statements // March 13, 2008 at 10:41 am
[...] posts an announcement of and a link to videocast responding to the homophobic and insulting statements [...]
Global Voices Online » Kyrgyzstan: LBGT community video answer to Russian Orthodox Church´s homophobic comments. // March 19, 2008 at 6:43 pm
[...] Genderstan: The videocast was uploaded to Kyrgyz video portal and has been watched 409 times within the first [...]