Mayor Of Sochi Says There Are No Gays In City, Despite Its Gay Bars
Source: TPM
CATHERINE THOMPSON JANUARY 27, 2014, 8:58 AM EST
There are no gays in Sochi, according to the Russian city's mayor.
Sochi mayor Anatoly Pakhomov told the BBC in a story published Sunday that gays would be welcome at the Winter Olympic games in the host city, but added that homosexuality is "not accepted here in the Caucasus where we live. We do not have them in our city."
A reporter found evidence to the contrary. BBC Panorama's John Sweeney visited a gay bar in Sochi the night before he interviewed Pakhomov.
When pressed about the presence of gays in the city, the mayor told BBC "I am not sure, but I don't bloody know them."
An opposition leader, Boris Nemts
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pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Beacool
(30,247 posts)He is not about to say that he has gays in his town.
Marcuse
(7,479 posts)Beacool
(30,247 posts)Christie will mess with your town's traffic flow and relief funds. Putin can make you disappear or send you to a gulag in Siberia.
If someone points out that they have gay bars in town, the mayor can pretend to be shocked like Captain Renault in Casablanca.
7962
(11,841 posts)ret5hd
(20,491 posts)Opening a bar without doing any market research!
When I was in Rome I was told that "almost no person is open here" and then was told the biggest gay bar, right by the Colosseum is called "Coming Out" (because almost no one is "out" they are just "working on it" or "curious" .
AAO
(3,300 posts)"I am not sure, but I don't bloody know them." - kind of the reverse of "some of my best friends are gay" - but I'd wager they are approximate in their sentiment.
sakabatou
(42,152 posts)AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)bkanderson76
(266 posts)pampango
(24,692 posts)http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/06/15/18938670-ahmadinejads-most-memorable-quotes?lite
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)when talking about the subject.