Quoting from this site:
MOSCOW, Russia (Reuters) — Russian police detained gay protesters calling for the right to hold a Gay Pride parade in central Moscow on Sunday while nationalists shouting “death to homosexuals” punched and kicked the demonstrators. Riot police detained gay rights activists as they tried to present a petition asking Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov, who has called gay marches satanic acts, to lift a ban on the parade.
Nationalists and extreme Russian Orthodox believers held icons and denounced homosexuality as “evil” while a group of thick-set young men turned up with surgeon’s masks, which they said would protect them from the “gay disease.”
“We are defending our rights,” said a young gay man named Alexey, with blood pouring out of his nose after he was beaten up by a man screaming “homosexuals are perverts” opposite the mayor’s office. His attacker was detained.
“This is terrible but I am not scared. This is a pretty scary place, a pretty scary country if you are gay. But we won’t give up until they allow us our rights,” he said.
See? It really IS a lifestyle choice! I mean, who wouldn’t make that choice?
Alexey should just come here. At least no one would witness his humiliation as he lost a fight when drastically outnumbered. Here we do our gay-bashing in dark alleys, hidden places, with victims tied to fences…
It’s not so bad when it’s hidden, right?