Now that classes are over and exams graded I have a bit of time to check out what has been sitting in my browser tabs. Back at the end of October British actor Stephen Fry released a two-part documentary (each an hour long) titled Stephen Fry: Out There. I watched the second episode this evening (the link to the first wasn't working).
His aim is to explore how gays live around the world and to explore homophobia. In this episode he went to Brazil, Russia, and India. He thinks India is the most open (though this is before the recent Supreme Court reversal) to gays, though not to transgenders.
He also speaks to a couple of lawmakers who are trying to make our lives difficult. The one in Russia created the local St. Petersburg version of the anti-propaganda law that went national last summer. His goal is to figure out why these people are so homophobic. I don't think he gets an answer to that question. They definitely rage just as loudly and spout the same nonsense we hear in America. So the answer is likely the same. We threaten their patriarchal power by refusing to take part in it.
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