Watch what happens when two men hold hands while walking through Moscow
In the wake of the Supreme Court decision last month that effectively legalized gay marriage across the United States, a group of young Russians decided to make a video that shows how tolerant Russia is of homosexuality.
Not much, the video seems to show.
The video, shot by the group ChebuRussiaTV, is modeled on similar video experiments, the most well known of which showed a young women being catcalled and hit on as she walked around New York. It differs in that it shows two young men in their 20s — Artem Frantsuzov and Jay Babenko — walking around the center of Moscow holding hands.
Frantsuzov and Babenko are not actually a couple (neither are gay), but many Muscovites apparently think they are. The pair are stared at, verbally insulted and, on at least two occasions, physically threatened.
Nikita Rozhdestv, the cameraman and one of five friends who created the video, says that after a second man tried to physically assault Frantsuzov and Babenko, they decided to stop filming. They had been walking around Moscow for less than three hours. Rozhdestv says that the man stopped attacking them only when they explained it was a social experiment.
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