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Behind the Aegis

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Sat Apr 30, 2022, 02:18 PM Apr 2022

Russian TV is airing the most incredibly homophobic & accidentally homoerotic show in existence

Russian MP Vitaly Milonov is the author of the country’s ban on “gay propaganda” and has been a leading figure in the communist state’s persecution of LGBTQ people.

He’s so worried about impressionable young people being influenced, in fact, that he’s created the homophobic TV show I’m Not Gay. Except it’s accidentally homoerotic and he doesn’t seem to have noticed.

The show rounds up eight men into a house. They have to guess which contestant is gay. They vote out one of the men every week. If they correctly guess the gay man, the men left in the house will share a two million ruble prize. Thanks to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the sanctions against the country that have tanked the currency, the prize is currently only worth about $25,000. If the gay man is the last left in the house, he wins the prize.

Calling someone a rooster is an old fashioned anti-gay slur. The show includes a rooster in a cage outside the house and the sound of crowing is used to censor curse words.

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LOL! Some people....

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