One more celeb has stepped up to the plate to speak out against Russia’s increasingly strict anti-gay laws. Although the laws are officially just to ban the promotion of ‘non-traditional’ sexual relationships, they have resulted in an increase in anti-gay attacks and over-zealous government official trying to destroy anything pro-gay.
Now Star Trek actor Chris Pine has decided to speak out, as he feels the US government should have done more to protect the anti-gay laws in the run-up to the Sochi Olympics. He calls the laws “clearly awful, archaic, hostile nonsense.”
While promoting Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit, he said, “I think we should do more than just send gay Olympians there. What’s happening there in terms of gay rights or the lack of it is extraordinary and awful.”
Pine may have been particularly keen to say something as his new film has a Russian element, as his character has thwart a terror attack on the US that originates in Russia. While Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit did shoot in the country, it did so before the anti-gay laws were enacted.
The actor’s comments come on the same day as the Russian Foreign Ministry launched a report on human rights in the EU, which criticises the “aggressive propaganda of homosexual love”. It adds the EU is trying to force an “alien view of homosexuality and same-sex marriages as a norm of life.”
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