Videos of reaction to same sex couples in Moscow and Kiev

[Larry1]

Zoryan Kis and Tymur Levchuk were attacked by group of 15-20 young men after deciding to test people’s reactions to them holding hands

A gay couple in Kiev have replicated a viral video filmed earlier this month in Moscow to test how Ukrainians would react to two men holding hands.

In the original video, which was inspired by the supreme court’s decision in late June to legalise gay marriage in the US, two men from the prank-loving YouTube channel ChebuRussia TV walked around downtown Moscow holding hands.

Zoryan Kis and Tymur Levchuk adopted the same format in their video for Bird in Flight magazine, but had a generally more positive experience in the Ukrainian capital. Most passersby simply went about their business, although some stopped and stared. One group of giggling girls joked they should kiss each other and took a photo of the pair on a smartphone.

The couple then decided “to be a little more provocative”, and Levchuk sat on Kis’s lap on a bench on Khreshchatyk street, downtown Kiev’s main thoroughfare, with a bouquet of flowers. They were approached by a group of between 10 and 15 young men with far-right views, Kis said, who told them they had mistaken Ukraine for the US and asked if they were “patriots”.

After a nearby police patrol moved on, the young men pepper-sprayed Kis and Levchuk and three of them kicked the couple before bystanders intervened and the attackers ran off.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/23/gay-couple-kicked-pepper-sprayed-far-right-mob-kiev-ukraine

You can see a short video of some of the highlights at the link above.

The video that apparently gave these two Ukrainian guys the idea to do this can be seen here:



The two Russian guys, who are straight, walked around Moscow holding hands. This video has subtitles in English and the two guys are narrating what is happening.

What are your thoughts about any of this?

[tfcrew]

For those who may not know...

After DOMA was overturned, the admin wasted no time in ordering  the State Dept to start processing same sex petitions for visas.

http://www.uscis.gov/family/same-sex-marriages