On Wednesday, gay right activists in New York City
came up t and dumped vodka in the streets as a protest against Russia’s anti-
gay law, with a large number of gay bar and club’s owners promising to boycott
the use of Russian vodkas as a protest. The protest began last week in Seattle
when the boycotting of Russian vodkas by gay bar owners began, which led to
boycott in San Francisco where gay bar owners joined hands in this protest and
reached out New York City, where gay activists openly poured vodkas in the
streets.
Advocates of gay rights in NYC, carried banners and signs that made
statements about Russian vodkas being infused with hatred, and gathered
together outside the Russian consulate in New York, on Wednesday, and poured it
in the pavements and streets.
This
call for protest actually did come, when an investigator in Russia told in May,
that a man of 23 years of gay was tortured and then killed when he told his
friend about him being gay.
Last June, the president of Russia,
Vladimir Putin also signed a law that banned gay propaganda, which would make participation
in gay rallies illegal and would also make it illegal for anyone to speak for
gay rights and support for homosexuals. A ban was also made by the Russian
president on adopting Russian children by same-sex couples.
This boycott focuses on Stolichnaya
vodka, which has its ingredients of Russia origin, and has the vodka company
too supported this protest for gay rights. The chief executive of Stolichnaya,
Val Mendeleev, wrote in an open letter for the boycott, that the company has
always been and will always support and be a friend to the LGBT community.
Russia is due to host the 2014
Winter Olympics in Sochi.
