He’s got that kind of slouch, looking like the bored kid in the back of the classroom.
(Obama on Putin during White House press conference, CNN, July 9, 2013)
I’m on record suggesting that, instead of boycotting the Sochi Winter Olympics next year, American athletes should convey their outrage over Russia’s anti-gay laws by displaying the LGBT gay-pride rainbow flag wherever and whenever possible.
I especially urge athletes (from every country that supports gay civil rights) who take the medal podium during these Games to participate. They can do so by making a show of taking a small gay-pride flag out of their pocket, after the playing of the winner’s national anthem, and waving it proudly for the world (and Putin’s homophobic Russia) to see. In other words, dare Czar Putin to have them all arrested for spreading “propaganda of nontraditional sexual relations among minors.”
I assure you, as far as Olympics protests go, this will emulate the famous Black-power salute two Black-American athletes made during the Mexico Games in 1968 to protest racial discrimination in the United States.
Accordingly, I call upon gay activists in every country participating in these Winter Games to ensure that every athlete on their national team has one or more of these small flags to participate in this silent but poignant protest.
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