Russia may not have the apocalyptic smog clouds of its Chinese neighbors to the south, but they’re not exactly breathing easy in Moscow.
The air in Russia is some of the most polluted in the world, accounting for 17 percent of childhood and 10 percent of adult diseases, as well as 41 percent of respiratory and 16 percent of endocrine diseases in the country.
But according to one audacious propagandist, Russia’s air is also uniquely able to dissolve the sins of homosexuality.
And since this story already has all the makings of a farce, it’s natural that famed French actor and director Gerard Depardieu has everything to do with it.
Depardieu was granted Russian citizenship in 2013 and has cultivated a little bromance with Vladdy Putin. We can only assume they get together to wrestle bears on the weekends.
Well you can imagine that Russian officials weren’t thrilled when Depardieu released his autobiography recently, in which he revels he was a gay child prostitute. Doesn’t quite fit with Putin’s alpha male bullshit.
But no bother, here’s what Vitaly Milonov, the homophobic politician who sponsored Russia’s ‘gay propaganda’ legislation, had to say about the Frenchman:
“It wasn’t easy for him in France. There, society is corrupted and doesn’t have any moral principles. I view Gérard’s book as sort of repentance, confession of old sins…Now that he breathed in the purifying air of Mordovia, all that filth left him.”
Gerard also claims he can drink 14 bottles of wine a day, so the smog may be the least of his problems.
via Pink News
Saint Law
“There (France), society is corrupted and doesn’t have any moral principals.”
France certainly does have its probs. But Russia is an irredeemable hell-hole, its every politician a murderer or gangster.
So, no lectures from you, Milonov, you abject turd.
Saint Law
No wonder Gargle Derpeedew lives there. Must feel right at home.
Trippy
The sad part is that he probably believes this ridiculous claim. No wonder Russia is so culturally backward.
Bob LaBlah
I find this article an insult to the intelligence to gays every where. When a “strait” actor appears on gay publications more than strait ones trying to peddle bullshit such as underwear, books etc… It leaves the impression (in my mind) no strait person gives a flying fuck about the “actor” nor what they are peddling.
This past Sunday the NYDailynews.com ran a piece about Mario Lopez’s book. In the comment section 10 comments were made. Out of the ten comments seven of them were negative remarks about the book and him. The three responses to the comments were painfully obvious from the “author” or someone hired by the “author” to support or defend that lie in book form. I checked back later on in the day and six of the comments had been deleted by the site. They were not vulgar but they sure were pointing/hinting toward his “straitness” and desperation for attention, shall we say. I couldn’t even laugh because the whole thing was just pathetic.
This guy, Gephar…something or other, is worth in excess of $100 million dollars. What is the need for a book other than pathetic attention? I mean, to bottom line it, who cares where he or his housekeeper buys toilet paper? ALL of his movies barely broke even at the box office. What does that tell you about his popularity? And now he is trying to appeal to a gay audience of which the majority have no idea who the hell he is nor even care to find out.
Cobalt Blue
English newspaper “Daily Mail” has some juicy news about him. Go to the ‘ Search ‘find the stuff and enjoy the reading. The man has essues…
Cobalt Blue
@Cobalt Blue: issues.
Cam
Gerard wasn’t gay, he was a hustler.
As for France being corrupt?? The level of corruption in Russia is another world. As for why Depardu moved there, it was to avoid taxes. Hope he has fun when Putin decides to jail him and claim his money.
badtungsten
@Trippy: Russia is in the grips of a round of scapegoating not so different than what happened here in the US in the Bush years. Indicting the culture isn’t the right way to go. The correct answer is indictment of the government which uses fear and loathing to mask institutional problems. Sound familiar? The immediate post-9/11 world looked a lot like Russia does today with just a tad less homophobia.
Bob LaBlah
@Cam: I would not be surprised at all to learn it was he who “bit the pillow” in order to get his first acting job, as is heavily rumored Eddie Murphy did to get on SNL.
Chris
If the air “cured” him of being gay, good! I don’t want him in our tribe anyway. ….. win, win.