Sunday, August 03, 2025

If You’re Gay, Russia Says You’re Not Human | Exclusive Interview by the Insider

Dragged from a university exam straight into a Siberian interrogation room, 23-year-old August Dobrovolsky was ordered to betray every queer person he knew — or be caged, raped, or sent to die in Ukraine. For two days, police beat, humiliated, and threatened him with a fabricated 15-year sentence as an informant behind bars. Fined under Russia’s “LGBT propaganda” law 🏳️‍🌈 and handed a draft notice on the way out, August chose a clandestine escape over suicide.

🎙️ This interview lays bare the machinery of state-sponsored homophobia: torture rooms, extortion rings, and forced conscription that silence Russia’s LGBTQ+ community. Watch August’s full story — and see why being gay in Russia means being stripped of your humanity.



Man's cruelty to man knows no bounds. What the hell is wrong with these people? And what has it got to do with others how an adult person is sexually oriented? It seems to me that we are sliding back into the Dark Ages. People believe all sorts of nonsense, myths, and fairy stories—no pun intended—and naturally always think they are right. Well, I have news for them: they aren't. By the way, I blame Trump for a lot of this shit. Trump's election and re-election has emboldened the extremists and the benighted. And for that, we can all thank the naïveté of the American electorate. – © Mark Alexander