Politician Wants Tim Cook Banned From Russia, Says He Might Bring Ebola

Politician Wants Tim Cook Banned From Russia, Says He Might Bring Ebola
An anti-gay Russian politician wants to ban Tim Cook from the country after the Apple CEO publicly came out as gay last week.

What can he bring us? The Ebola virus, AIDS, gonorrhea? All of them over there have promiscuous relations. Ban him forever,” Vitaly Milonov, a St. Petersburg politician and anti-LGBT lawmaker, told the website FlashNord about barring Cook from Russia, according to a translation by The Huffington Post.

“This is how he increases sales. Apple has become a popular brand. He’s like an artist, who is initially making it as an artist, and then after announces that he is a pederast,” Milonov continued, using a word in Russian that pejoratively refers to homosexuals. “Now everyone knows, Apple is made by homos, and then everyone starts changing their mind. … This is a fine political move.”

Milonov’s comments should not come as a surprise to those familiar with his body of work. He co-authored St. Petersburg’s so-called “homosexual propaganda” legislation, which influenced the passage last year of a similar law on the national level which criminalizes the “propaganda of homosexuality among minors.”

In accordance with this law, a group of Russian companies called ZEFS removed a memorial to Steve Jobs from outside a St. Petersburg college on Friday. The iPhone-shaped monument was erected last year.

“In Russia, gay propaganda and other sexual perversions among minors are prohibited by law,” ZEFS said, per Reuters. “After Apple CEO Tim Cook publicly called for sodomy, the monument was taken down to abide to the Russian federal law protecting children from information promoting denial of traditional family values.”

Cook came out in an essay for Bloomberg Businessweek on Oct. 30, saying he is “proud to be gay.”

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Men Dressed As Fairies Beat Up Gays In London

Men Dressed As Fairies Beat Up Gays In London

brian kingsfordSome days, the news headlines make sense. And other days, you have to check and make sure it’s not The Onion.

Apparently, two men with pink tutus and fairy wings beat up two other men while shouting antigay slurs. Ooooookay.

The victims are 18 and 21, and we don’t know much about their conditions. One of them, Robbie Kingsford, had his post-hospitalization picture posted online by his father, showing some pretty terrible eye swelling and lots of contusions and scrapes to his face. He also appears to have some swelling around his mouth, which could mean lost teeth.

All that police have said about the attackers is that they were in a group with women, and possibly some other guys. Not a lot of details to go on.

If there can be a silver lining to any of this, it’s that passers-by intervened to stop the homophobic attack. At least it’s comforting to know that there are good people out there willing to step in.

If we had to guess what happened here, it’s that the two attackers were probably feeling uncomfortable about their Halloween costumes, and felt the need to lash out with homophobia. That’s just a guess, of course — we’re desperate to find some kind of explanation or reason behind this bizarre attack. We’ll be watching the news for more about this attack, just as we’re keeping an eye on that insane gay bashing in Philadelphia.

Our thoughts are with Robbie and the other victim. And our other thoughts are with the attackers, and go as follows: “what is wrong with you?”

matt baume

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Jake Gyllenhaal On the Political Legacy of 'Brokeback Mountain' And What The Film Means to Him – VIDEO

Jake Gyllenhaal On the Political Legacy of 'Brokeback Mountain' And What The Film Means to Him – VIDEO

Gyllenhaal

Speaking with HuffPost Live, Jake Gyllenhaal shared his thoughts on 2005’s Brokeback Mountain, the film’s legacy and political significance, and how his career changed after filling Jack Twist’s boots. 

Said Gyllenhaal: 

Gyllenhaal1It’s a beautiful story and it was very successful in many different ways and so that’s what brought a lot of the attention. And it was at the time, culturally, it gave me the idea that movies can be important. That they do have some sort of political value…it’s become something beyond what any of us could have imagined.

Watch the interview, AFTER THE JUMP

You can catch Gyllenhaal in theaters in the crime thriller Nightcrawler. Check out our review here

 


Kyler Geoffroy

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