Gay vkontakte
LGBT activists have since February been pushing the city and state of Fresh York to divest of holdings related to the Russian social network VKontakte (VK) because it hosts the pages of hundreds of Neo-Nazi and anti-LGBT groups — but New York isn't budging.
Duncan Obsorne, a member of LGBT rights protest collective Queer Nation, told BuzzFeed the community met with both State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli and Urban area Comptroller Scott Stringer in April to discuss their holdings tied to VKontakte, which hosts hundreds of pages belonging to groups favor Occupy Pedophilia, which entraps gay men to torture them on camera.
California's state pension fund, CalPERS, responded to similar prodding from other LGBT activists and has sold $20 million shares in Mail.ru, which owns a 52 percent share of VKontakte and is owned by Russian oligarch Alisher Usmanov, the Financial Times reported Friday. Gay Nation helped CalPERS research and inspect material on VK that lead to the fund's choice to divest.
CalPERS' top of corporate control, Anne Simpson, told the Financial Times "Calpers is not the first community to say, wonderful grief, that is not acceptable. The internet is not there to be a platfo
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Vitaly Milonov, Russia's newest, most unlikely member of an LGBT community. Image edited by Kevin Rothrock.
In the wake of a decision by the US Supreme Court to legalize same-sex marriage in all 50 states, Internet users all over the planet have been coloring their social media avatars with rainbows—the symbol of LGBT rights. Mostly famously, Facebook is even offering an official service, called “Let’s Celebrate Pride,” that allows users to shade their existing profile pictures with the rainbow flag.
This phenomenon has caused a stir in Russia, where conservatives have created a tool that overlays social media profile pictures with the colors of the Russian flag—a gesture apparently meant to express one’s conflict to “nontraditional marriage.” (Read Max Seddon’s story about this at Buzzfeed.)
Vitaly Milonov, the St. Petersburg city councilman who pioneered Russia’s first ban on “gay propaganda,” has vowed to appeal to Russia’s federal censors to receive Facebook banned in Russia, saying the rainbow avatars are visible to millions of underage users in Russia, supposedly putting young people “at risk.”
Things acquire gotten to be so heated that a membe
Vitaly Milonov, Russia's newest, most unlikely member of an LGBT community. Image edited by Kevin Rothrock.
In the wake of a decision by the US Supreme Court to legalize same-sex marriage in all 50 states, Internet users all over the planet have been coloring their social media avatars with rainbows—the symbol of LGBT rights. Mostly famously, Facebook is even offering an official service, called “Let’s Celebrate Pride,” that allows users to shade their existing profile pictures with the rainbow flag.
This phenomenon has caused a stir in Russia, where conservatives have created a tool that overlays social media profile pictures with the colors of the Russian flag—a gesture apparently meant to express one’s conflict to “nontraditional marriage.” (Read Max Seddon’s story about this at Buzzfeed.)
Vitaly Milonov, the St. Petersburg city councilman who pioneered Russia’s first ban on “gay propaganda,” has vowed to appeal to Russia’s federal censors to receive Facebook banned in Russia, saying the rainbow avatars are visible to millions of underage users in Russia, supposedly putting young people “at risk.”
Things acquire gotten to be so heated that a membe