Occupy Paedophilia declare hunting season on gays in Russia

A video from the Russian vigilante group Occupy Pedophilia, appears to show the persecution of man in a bid to cure him of being a homosexual.

THEY post ads online luring people with the promise of sex and a bit of fun, but pleasure is the last thing they want to dish out.

Members of these groups, who go by the names of Occupy Paedophilia and Parents of Russia, have one thing on their mind – punishment and ultimately humiliation of anyone who is gay, lesbian or transgender.

Anti-LGBT activists say their treatment is justified because it helps prevent paedophilia and preserve Russia’s family rights.

In footage to be aired on British TV broadcaster Channel 4 this week, the brutal way anti-LGBT activists deliberately attack gay people is exposed.

A victim can be seen being ‘punished’ in Channel 4 documentary Hunted.

In the documentary Hunted investigative journalist Liz Mackean travels to Russia to interview members of these groups.

She uncovers gay people who live in fear of their safety after several attacks on gay people across Russia.

One man can be heard saying: “A hunting season has opened, and we are the hunted”. Another says gays should be hanged and burned and “this is Russia, they need to get used to it”.

“We filmed these groups with their knowledge, and what I found shocking afterwards was that only a few asked to have their faces disguised. They all believe they are doing the right thing,” Ms Mackean told The Guardian .

“Occupy Paedophilia has groups in more than 30 cities. They operate with impunity and under the cover of the remarks [Vladimir] Putin has made suggesting that children are at risk from homosexuals.”

Gangs use the internet to lure their victims who are then subjected to violence and humiliating acts. One victim is made to dance and the footage is then uploaded to the internet.

Sadly these groups are not uncommon and this treatment is far from rare.

In September last year, the BBC revealed more shocking treatment at the hands of the ultranationalist group.

In the shocking BBC footage, a victim is made to drink urine to cure his homosexuality. Picture: BBC/Screengrab

In its footage, one man is forced to drink urine and put his head in the toilet before he has a metal bucket put over his head.

He is then whacked across the head with heavy truncheon like objects and is accused of being a paedophile.

The group say they are dishing out justice and their supposed aim is to cure people of homosexuality.

In the clip posted online, a woman can be seen armed with a gun and dressed in army fatigues, joking that she’s going hunting for gay people and paedophiles.

The woman, named as Yekaterina, heads up St Petersburg’s Occupy paedophilia movement and she tells the BBC exactly what the movement is about.

“Our priority is uncovering cases of pedophilia,” she says.

“But we’re also against the promotion of homosexuality. And if – along the way – we encounter people of non-traditional sexual orientation, we can kill two birds with one stone.”

Yekaterina heads up St Petersburg’s Occupy Paedophilia movement. Picture: Screengrab/BBC

Last year, South African student David Smith found himself the target of a shocking attack by anti-gay activists after being lured to an apartment in the city of Belgorod.

In the graphic online video, Anti-LGBT activists pretended to be a 15-year-old boy looking for sex.

But when Smith got to the apartment he was met by a group of men who subjected him to a humiliating experience.

He was stripped down to his underwear, asked if he wanted to have sex with a cat and had his head smashed into a watermelon.

Russia is renowned for its intolerance of gay people and last year introduced a draconian law which allowed police to arrest tourists and foreigners whom they suspect of being gay or lesbian.

Under President Vladimir Putin’s law, police can detain suspects for up to two weeks, with their powers even being extended towards people considered “pro-gay” or distributing “gay propaganda”.

This month, Russian MPs are set to debate a bill that could see homosexual couples lose custody of their children.

If passed, the bill would meant parents risk losing custody of their children if they practise “non-traditional sexual relations” or, in Russian terms, gay sex.

South African student David Smith was humiliated in an anti-gay sting last year. Picture: Screengrab

 

 

Ecuador: “Gay Cure Clinics” Practice Corrective Rape, Torture to Convert Homosexuals

Homosexuality is legal in Ecuador but there have been disturbing allegations about private clinics in the country

By MARK PIGGOTT

Psychology student Zulema Constante, 22, was heading out to lunch with her father in Guayaquil, Ecuador, when they were stopped by two men who pulled her from her father’s car and into their own, driving away at speed.

Fearing a kidnapping, Constante fought furiously, tearing her clothes in the process, but to no avail: she was driven to a remote private clinic where she suffered psychological torture, had to clean toilets with her bare hands and was made to eat maggots. Her crime? Having a girlfriend.

Constante says her own family organised the “therapy” after she told them she was gay. Yet she believes she was “lucky” – other victims have been beaten and sometimes worse.

Another lesbian, Paula Ziritti, 24, described how she was shackled in handcuffs for three months as guards threw urine over her. Ziritti described many acts of sexual abuse by guards in order to “cure” patients of their homosexuality – a process known by the chilling phrase “corrective rape”.

In 2011 a petition containing 100,000 signatures was handed to Ecuador’s then health minister asking why only a handful of the country’s 200 private clinics had been closed despite widespread allegations about rape and torture. The petition, organised by human rights group Fundacion Causana with the support of Change, persuaded the government to free some imprisoned women but campaigners like Ziritti say this is not enough: “The closure of the first clinics by the government is good, but not good enough. Why is the clinic where I suffered still open?”

When reporters from CNN visited one such facility – the Puente a la Vida, or Bridge to Life, in a Quito suburb, director Luis Zavala explained the clinic tried to “convert” homosexuals, their aim being “to modify all inadequate behaviors that are causing a particular individual to take inadequate attitudes”. That clinic has since been shut down for human rights violations but hundreds of others, often in remote regions of the country, continue to operate.

Most of the centers – many run by Christian-based groups – claim to be drug rehabilitation centers, but there seem to be many cases of gay people – most of them women – being abused simply for being gay.

Homosexuality has been legal in Ecuador since 1997; in 1998 it became one of the few countries to enshrine protection for gay people in law, and Fundacion Causana’s former executive director Carina Vance is now the country’s health minister. Yet in this devoutly Catholic and macho society, homosexuality is still seen by some as an abomination and LGBT campaigners complain they are regularly harassed by the police.

Gay Cure Clinics

 

Man Accused of “Gay Handshake” Stands Trial in Dubai

Man Accused of “Gay Handshake” Stands Trial in Dubai

You can tell homophobia has gotten out of control when even handshakes between men are scrutinized for being “gay.” In the United Arab Emirates (UAE), one man stands trial after being accused of giving a gay handshake to a colleague, reports The Huffington Post UK.

As a Care2 member stated in a petition she created, “THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A GAY HANDSHAKE!” It is an absolute joke that Dubai courts are entertaining the allegation as a potential criminal matter. The fact that the case wasn’t immediately thrown out shows how the government is inclined to condemn homosexuality in even the most ludicrous of scenarios.

The handshake in question occurred between a pair of firefighters with a longstanding grudge. The prosecution has charged the defendant with indecency for shaking hands in a “perverted” manner. The supposed “victim” says that, when shaking hands with his coworker, the defendant rubbed his middle finger on his palm.

Although the gesture seems too insignificant to be considered a homosexual act, even supposing it were meant to communicate something “gay,” a harmless handshake should not warrant judicial intervention.

For what it’s worth, the defendant denies giving the “perverted” handshake. He cites a workplace feud as the reason the plaintiff pressed charges.

“If this case goes any further it has the potential of setting a dangerous precedent,” argues the head of the UAE LGBT advocacy group. “It is inviting misuse by other claimants who are simply against homosexuality, causing a witch hunt against an already prosecuted minority group. What[‘s] next? ‘He look at me in a funny way, therefore he is gay and must be punished?’”

Unfortunately, legal action over something this trite isn’t all that surprising given the other anti-gay legislation on the books in the UAE. In Dubai, both parties of a same-sex couple that engage in consensual sex can receive up to 10 years in prison, while a federal law stipulates that male sodomy is punishable with the death penalty.

Considering that the UAE Supreme Court permits men to abuse their wives and children so long as they don’t leave visible marks (sigh) and rape victims in Dubai can still be placed in jail for their part in getting raped (double sigh), this case shows the warped priorities and sense of justice in the region. When actual sexual misdeeds are committed, the courts look the other way, but when the smallest hint of something that someone has construed as “gay” occurs, then they hold a trial.

Join others around the world in telling Dubai officials that a handshake is not “gay” and prevent this homophobia-based witch hunt from escalating further.

Catholic League President: Abusive Priests Aren’t Pedophiles, They’re Just Gay

Bill Donohue: ‘When men have sex with adolescent men it’s called homosexuality. It is not paedophilia’

“When men have sex with adolescent men it’s called homosexuality. It is not paedophilia.”

by Will Stroude

The president of US civil rights organisation the Catholic League has said that priests who molest children are not paedophiles but simply gay.

Appearing on CNN’s New Day programme, the group’s president Bill Donohue insisted that: “When men have sex with adolescent men it’s called homosexuality. It is not paedophilia.”

Mr Donohue continued: “Less than 5 percent of the priests involved in molestation are paedophiles. I will never stop telling the truth. And the Pope never said we should either. I am against gay bashing, and saying that if you’re gay you’re going to be a molester.

“If 81 percent of the victims are male and 100 percent of the victimisers are male, and 78 percent of the victims are post-pubescent, the word in the English language is not paedophilia – it’s homosexuality.”

He also stated his belief that the Catholic Church had handled the abuse scandal poorly, saying: “I would have put these guys in in the slammer a long time ago. Instead, they think they can reform them. They sent them off to the psychiatrist.”

When asked by host Chris Cuomo how he knew the abusive priests were gay, Mr Donohue said: “I’ll say it again, most of the molesting priests were gay, and most gay priests are not molesters.

“If a man has sex with a man what would you call that?”

The comments come just a day after the Pope stated that the Catholic Church was “obsessed” with issues such as homosexuality and contraception, and that “it is not necessary to talk about these issues all the time.”

The Catholic League says that its mission is to defend “the right of Catholics – lay and clergy alike – to participate in American public life without defamation or discrimination.”