Hey, how are things going for LGBTs over in Russia? Still really really badly? Okay, just checking.
The latest really bad news come from Ivan Okhlobystin, star of the Russian version of Scrubs.
“I’d put them all alive in the oven,” he told fans. “It’s a living danger to my children.” Jesus Christ. So, okay, this guy feels that good parenting requires the adoption of the tactics of Adolph Hitler. That’s so awesome. His kids are lucky to have such a great dad.
We’re really looking forward to hearing how (rumored) Kremlin employee Johnny Weir will spin this as no big deal. “Well, he said he’d put them in the oven, but he didn’t say he’d turn it on,” perhaps?
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Okhlobystin’s other great hits include promising to buy weapons for Syria, and also running for president on a campaign of Russian isolationism. Must’ve been a fun guy to work with on-set.
Meanwhile, the Kremlin elevated news anchor Dmitry Kiselyov to a leadership post this week. While not calling for gays to be burned to death, Kiselyov did recommend that gay people’s hearts be posthumously “burned or buried” after we die by other means.
The International Olympic Committee gave Kiselyov’s news agency host agency status to cover the Russian Olympics. Nice work, IOC!
Cam
NBC is getting in trouble for not reporting that Johnny Weir has said he works for the Russian Consulate.
http://www.salon.com/2013/12/12/nbc_fails_to_mention_that_olympic_commentator_johnny_weir_works_with_the_russian_government/
JohnnyRalph
Queerty, please refrain from comparing things to Nazi Germany. I get that it’s a valid comparison, but honestly it’s so overused that I have started to get annoyed when people use that analogy.
Johnny Lane
@JohnnyRalph: Except when it comes to Obama and his assumed dictatorship.
Johnny Lane
This Russian actor is obviously a closet case desperate wanting to be fucked!
BBellairs
@Johnny Lane: Please refrain from blaming everything on President Obama. Not only do I find THAT annoying it is also disrespectful to the office of the President.
jimstoic
@Johnny Lane: Who elected you troll?
jimstoic
This actor is describing what most Christians think God is going to do to LGBT people in the end anyway. It’s heinous, but at least it’s consistent.
jwrappaport
@JohnnyRalph: The author was talking about Adolph Hitler, not Adolf Hitler. I think it must be a different person. Like Heinrich Bimmler.
In any event, I don’t think it’s entirely off base to compare the current hate speech in Russia to what was being said and written in 1930s Germany about the Jews. Yes, the argumentum ad Hitlerum grows tired, but I think it apt here.
BBellairs
Let’s not forget that gays were persecuted and sent to the death camps in Nazi Germany as well. So I find the comparison valid.
marc sfe
@JohnnyRalph: Read your history Johnny. The pink triangle began during the Nazi reign of terror so yes, this is entirely appropriate!! I’m sorry you’re tired of the referrals to the ovens and Nazi Germany, but in Australia we have a saying for the Anzacs, “Lest we forget.” Mate, I intend NEVER to forget. If you don’t like it, tough.
marc sfe
@Johnny Lane: Please, if you’re going to refer to dictators in the United States, do not forget George W. Bush, who by his selling of fear, began the implementation of what we now call the Patriot Act, which yes, has been perpetuated by President Obama, but it was also Bush who, if one disagreed with his policies and tactics, was labelled a traitor. I was labelled as such because I called out his bullshit. Get over it.
Jawsch
Good ‘ole Queerty reporting.
You guys just love finding a way to sneak in some trash talk against Johnny Weir any chance you can because Queerty and a bunch of it’s popular commentors love bashing effeminate gay men any chance they can and perpetuating a culture of hatred toward them and a push for ‘straight acting’ gay men.
This website is, every day, chipping away at it’s credibility to being unbiased and report on actual news instead of celebrity nonsense or what celebrity they think might be gay and who he is banging. Seems like this website is more obsessed with bashing fellow LGBT people who don’t agree with them 100% of the time, aren’t as masculine as they think they should be and care more about who celebrities are shacking up with instead of actual important issues within the LGBT community.
Deepdow
@Jawsch
Johnny Weir is an apologist for the Russian government’s draconian anti-gay laws and it has nothing to do with his effeminacy you harpy.
Daniel-Reader
Mass murdering gay children by putting them in ovens? I can see why the rule of law ended in Russia.
2eo
This is what christianity really wants, there’s no diplomacy, there’s no pope bringing people around, there’s no decency or morality from the religious.
They want us dead, and everywhere they can get away with it they’re doing it.
2eo
@Jawsch: I’m on record as condoning his murder by Russian forces, the traitors only use left is as a tool for better people than him to use in the fight against tyranny.
hyhybt
Setting Nazis aside, the first person who comes to my mind who wanted to put people in an oven would be the witch in “Hansel and Gretel.” A fine example of protecting children.
jimbryant
Maybe Ivan should have an affair with Vladimir Putin.
Ogre Magi
and to think, some gays say I am wrong for hating christians
trusgold
I will tell you what a danger to kids might be, is if one ends up being gay……Indira FIRE up the oven to 350 Rajit is gay
trusgold
well hating Christians as a whole to ME is not a redeeming quality, but there are some churches even God wouldn’t enter. If he did he would meet my ssister.
Camsean01
Boycat. My eteballs will turn offf to sponsors and my pockets sure won’t open.
guest4ever
A danger to children… homosexuals? Why of course not, Ivan, you bigoted homophobe!
The world’s most prolific serial killer was Luis “The Beast” Garavito from Columbia. 138 proven victims with possible victims totaling 172-400+.
He liked to RAPE LITTLE BOYS AND THEN CUT OFF THEIR HEADS as a gesture of his love for them. John Wayne Gacy loved boys, too… so much so that he kept 34 of their rotting corpses in the crawl space under his house. And then there was the Vampire of Hannover, Fritz Haarmann who killed 27+ boys… he especially liked to bite through their throats while sodomizing them.
What a kind and thoughtful mentor he was!
And by the way, the top 8 male and the top 3 female serial killers were homosexuals and about 40% of all serial killers have a history of involvement in homosexuality.
And remember, my friends, we’re talking 2% of the population.
A danger to children, you say?
Nonsense!
scoobydube
@JohnnyRalph: Having BOTH my grandparents AND my parents live THROUGH the NAZI occupation and then the RUSSIAN “liberation” of POLAND, I do NOT find this analogy annoying !! “Visual” and/or “print” media of the aforementioned occupation will NEVER depict the TRUE horrors that those people endured. It “happened” and HOPEFULLY it will NEVER happen again. Having said that, “Vald the Impailer” is starting to emulate Hitler because to the MANY problems that the “modern” RUSSIA is facing. Blaming “THEM” is an easy SCAPEGOAT, just like in Hitler’s day/time. He diverts attention from the REAL problems so the people won’t see what is happening …..
AuntieChrist
(Protect our children.)Has always been an effective tool for the persecution of gay folk…Call the villagers and light the torches, the gays are coming for our children…Why do you think christians refer to flocks and sheep…? The battle cry has sounded duck and cover girls…
Sebizzar
It’s getting really hard to not immediately think negative once I hear “Russia” or “Russian” which sucks because I don’t want to stereotype but look what is happening there!
Cam
@Jawsch: said….
“You guys just love finding a way to sneak in some trash talk against Johnny Weir any chance you can because Queerty and a bunch of it’s popular commentors love bashing effeminate gay men”
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LOL!!!! Oh wow, THIS desperate attempt to claim victim status is even worse than when Mormons said that anybody who disagreed with something that Ann Romney said must hate women who had had breast cancer.
Nice try though, I will give it to you, but hey, if ANYBODY hates gays or the gay community it is Weir. By siding with the folks who want gays murdered, imprisoned and tortured Weir has thrown his support directly against the gay community.
enfilmigult
@guest4ever: That’s really fascinating and everything, but you forgot the relevant part. These are policies and sentiments about all gay people, every single one. How likely is it, mathematically speaking, that any particular gay person is going to become a serial killer? Is it worth treating the other X% as we would treat decapitating child rapists? How about the effect of a welcoming society on these rates? Let us know when you feel like waving that kind of information around.
AuntieChrist
@enfilmigult: g4e is one bat s**t crazy bitch…I guess she went off her meds and is now trolling this site. It is not even a gay person…Best to lie low and ignore it, maybe it will get bored and go away.
crowebobby
@guest4ever: Well, if you’re going to nitpick…
enfilmigult
@AuntieChrist: Oh yeah, I know a troll post when I see it, ha ha. But since there are people who actually get fooled by this cheap mathematical trick (see also: “black people are X% of the population but commit X% of the crime, let’s racially profile”), I wanted to leave a response pointing out what nonsense it really is in case anyone was getting fooled by it here.
And now that I’m not strictly addressing the math and can also share my personal reaction: what a fucking asshole.
2eo
@enfilmigult: There was quite a funny one doing the rounds on that front.
It was white people bemoaning scholarships going to black students and not on the basis of merit. The flaw in this is that the education systems official statistics show that white people receive 78% of scholarships while making up 72% of the population of the US.
But nobody ever claimed these halfwits knew anything to start with.