At Sochi, we will show Vladimir just how much God created us equal. It's time for some good ole' fashion velvet rage and creativity:
From the New Civil Rights Movement:
At the end of August, the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association held a conference at the Park Plaza Hotel, in Boston, Massachusetts. One of the sessions offered was entitled ”Game Changer: Out on the Playing Field and In the Press Box.” The description in the conference literature said: ”Hear from sportswriters and athletes who can tell you what homophobia they still see in sports and where there are areas of real improvement.”
The “sports” session had a surprise speaker, not noted in the program, Patrick Burke, a scout for the Philadelphia Flyers, and one of the co-founders of the You Can Play Project, a movement to encourage athletically inclined gays to participate in sports. It was during his talk to the journalists that Patrick revealed that behind the scenes, there are plans for protests at the Sochi Olympics. Patrick told the group he was sorry he couldn’t tell them the details, but he feared if the Russians knew, they would not allow the people involved to enter the country.
Patrick also mentioned he thought the Russians would be searching for, and confiscating rainbow flags and pins in luggage searches upon entry to the country. He said his group has a contingency plan to get rainbow flags into the game using diplomatic means.
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