Clinton joins anti-gay Moscow mayor to dedicate statue of gay poet
Qnews Oct 14 09Walt Whitman
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton unveiled a statue Wednesday at Moscow State University of poet Walt Whitman, whose poetry contains sensual references to men.
Whitman, a civil-war-era poet, journalist, and essayist extolled homosexual love so openly in some of his works that a number of his poems were banned in the US. Despite that history, Clinton stood next to notoriously homophobic Russian Mayor Yury Luzhkov as the statue was unveiled and said nothing about continuing discrimination against LGBT people in Moscow.
Whitman statue in MoscowLuzhkov, who has called gay people “satanic” and banned gay pride parades in Moscow, nonetheless praised Whitman during the unveiling ceremony, saying that his works were “permeated with the spirit of American optimism”, Times of London reports. Full story...
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