According to Vaganov, most of the accusations boil down to the idea that if a person disagrees with the current authorities, they must necessarily “want to overthrow the political system.”

Seems queer people have no other choice but to become the force that the government portrays them as. When a regime actively wants you dead, you must kill the regime before it kills you. Trying to play safe and apolitical may buy some time, but unless that time is spent organizing for power, not for tea parties, the results will be very sad.

I don’t blame people for emigrating, but I hope they don’t, and that they radicalize instead. They are much stronger than NGO heads and other politicians made them believe.

The article is sad, because it reveals just how ignorant the conversation is in Russia, currently. I am reminded of the scene in Borat, towards the beginning, where Borat goes to a feminist conference and trolls the present speakers by asking how they reconcile their opinion with Prof. Soandso’s finding that women have a brain the size of a squirrel’s. That’s how idiotic the comments on state media and in academia sound.

According to its compilers, their purpose is to “confirm or refute” whether the movement is “large-scale,” to determine whether it is engaged in the “transformation” and “destruction of fundamental Russian spiritual and moral values, particularly traditional family values.”

Meanwhile, traditional family values in Russia:

1. Snokhachestvo
2. Notes on Muscovite Affairs

So, what I’d say here - if one’s a fascist larping as ancient roman - excluding gay sex makes one a poser.

this is what liberals wanted when they sabotaged USSR

Banning Plato for being woke in Texas is more extreme imo