He does look pretty happy.
He looks too happy and to pretty, this did not bode well with Turkish police!
Unironically this is probably the case - feminine ones are excluded from military service for example (show proof to the doctor to escape service), whereas others are allowed.
Every Pride Month this kinda shits happens in here.Sorry for the guy.
I now look forward to seeing the Turkish and Portuguese Mafia settle this with a breakdancing competition over the Kabbalah hahaha
that erdogan even thinks his country will become part of the eu…
Frankly I’m surprised they’re even in NATO.
With big military and startegic position they are one of the most important countries for the alliance. Therefore they also have the cabability to start a circus like they did with Finland and especially with Sweden.
This is what conservatives around the world want.
Well, there’s another country that won’t get my tourist dollars and will be talked bad about whenever anyone mentions it for the next 10 years
Sounds like another shit hole country I will avoid like the plague.
Any government / country entangled with religious nutjobs is to be avoided.
Including large swaths of the US. Florida is looking pretty sketch lately.
Yes. There was a time when I. as a young man, wanted to at least visit the good ole US and A. Back then I didn’t have the money. Now when I probably could afford it, I don’t have the desire anymore.
There’s still places worth visiting. Major cities like New York, San Francisco, Seattle, Chicago, even Atlanta is largely insulated from the rest of Georgia’s nutjob influence.
If you’d rather be outdoors, the U.S. has some spectacular parks and wild spaces. Yosemite, the Grand Canyon, Yellowstone, Arches, the Everglades, damn near anywhere in Alaska and Hawai’i…
Why would anyone straight have a problem with anyone being gay? Are they all in the closet and think that what they feel is what everyone feels, and somehow the fault of gay people?
You know, for one reason or another I won’t bother you with I’m still in the WhatsApp group of my childhood friends.
They’re a bunch of dicks, and tbh were I to meet them today I’d avoid them like the plague, but a couple of people in there are actual friends, so I stick around.
Anyway, the humour in the chat is that of many WhatsApp groups, jokes about women, sex and so on.
Boomers humour, so to speak, even though we’re all X-Gen.
Sadly, 80% are jokes about gays, which can get fairly nasty at times.
A couple of weeks ago I actually said “hey, how come you guys always joke about gays and trans? Like, all the time? You know who does that? Closeted homosexuals”.
Then I linked a few articles of random gay-bashing Republicans who were caught fiddling kids and were forced to admitting being gay.
“Rings a bell?”
I haven’t seen a gay joke in the group since.
Pedo =/= homosexual. Kind of a fucked up suggestion on your part.
Well, to be “fair,” a significant portion of homophobes believe an invisible man in the sky said it was bad, according to some guys who knew some guys who knew a guy that died several hundred years before they wrote that into their “things the invisible man in the sky said” collection of fan fiction.
Well, to be “fair,” a significant portion of homophobes believe an invisible man in the sky said it was bad…
If it weren’t for that, I would imagine it’d be advantageous for straight guys for there to be a gay guys: there’d be less competition for the women!
…except there are also gay women at roughly the same percentages.
I think a mix of religion and being brought up with old-school morality. I’m a conservative who has no problems with homosexuals, in fact HIV/AIDS is one of the causes I really get behind because the history of it fascinates me (currently reading And The Band Played On, it’s great).
Whenever I see homophobia or erroneous beliefs about them I try and correct them when I can.
I classify Turkey with Iran. Don’t go there. Unfortunately my list for no-go is growing
I wouldn’t be so hasty. The middle east, including Turkey, are some of the most culturally rich places to visit. In general, the Arab people are extremely hospitable. There has been civilization in the area for thousands of years and many fascinating antiquities remain. Turkey in particular has a longstanding secular tradition that was started a hundred years ago by Kemal Ataturk, only recently eroded by the religious conservatives. I wouldn’t let a few thuggish people put you off.
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Is France on that list too then? They tear gas people for having a contrary opinion to the state after all.
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The title is misleading.
*He was detained for participating in an “eventful” Pride march.
*On the bus, Chechens said he “looked like a gay”.
According to him.
EDIT: I did not claim that Turkish people are not homophobic. I did not minimize the injustice suffered by the Portuguese man. Why are you downvoting this?
He claims he didn’t participate.
So do we believe the people who lock people up for being gay or the gay dude thrown in prison for 20 days for looking gay?
Turkey doesn’t lock people up for being gay. Homosexuality was never criminalised. Public displays of affection are another issue but just being gay, no.
That doesn’t line up with a single person’s version of the story.
He says he was locked up for looking gay, Turkey claims they locked him up for being at a pride event.
Neither of those are public displays of affection.
Bootlicker
Just because someone is gay or got called gay doesn’t mean that they’ve been arrested for being gay. Laws surrounding demonstrations are illiberal enough on their own to result in getting locked up.
