News: Russian gay couple wins World Press Pic of the Year

MaRy

It's a pic of Jon and Alex, a gay couple from St. Petersburg

http://www.repubblica.it/esteri/2015...ref=HREC1-35#1

Kayhan

Goosey

I don't like it, why do they appear to be naked? Just promotes the idea gays are promiscuous. Not helpful. Being gay isn't illegal in Russia either. Don't think it should have won.

Ina Garten

top guy looks like a woman. Audrey Tatou realness.

Bulldog

if im being honest idk what I am looking at

MaRy

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Originally posted by Goosey

I don't like it, why do they appear to be naked? Just promotes the idea gays are promiscuous. Not helpful. Being gay isn't illegal in Russia either. Don't think it should have won.

NewRihannaStan

Kula

it looks like a straight couple

Giliap

It's a stunning photograph.

Wonderland

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Originally posted by Goosey

I don't like it, why do they appear to be naked? Just promotes the idea gays are promiscuous. Not helpful. Being gay isn't illegal in Russia either. Don't think it should have won.

So now naked intimacy with a partner = promiscuity?

J a y

I saw this on the evening news earlier. It's a powerful image, more so because of its meaning and not just the imagery.

Mezik

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Originally posted by Goosey

I don't like it, why do they appear to be naked? Just promotes the idea gays are promiscuous. Not helpful. Being gay isn't illegal in Russia either. Don't think it should have won.

Does that mean because my boyfriend and I spend time alone naked we're promiscuous too?

DoubleK

cute.

MonsterPaw

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Originally posted by Goosey

I don't like it, why do they appear to be naked? Just promotes the idea gays are promiscuous. Not helpful. Being gay isn't illegal in Russia either. Don't think it should have won.

This. Is it so hard for the gay community to put the clothes on at least for once? No wonder Russia is homophobic.

V$.

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Originally posted by Goosey

I don't like it, why do they appear to be naked? Just promotes the idea gays are promiscuous. Not helpful. Being gay isn't illegal in Russia either. Don't think it should have won.

*Artemisia ICONIC avi*

J a y

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Originally posted by Goosey

I don't like it, why do they appear to be naked? Just promotes the idea gays are promiscuous. Not helpful. Being gay isn't illegal in Russia either. Don't think it should have won.

Perhaps these will please you better, there were several winners

Middle photo might make people stop creating threads about how ebola is "slaying our faves". I doubt it though.

Goosey

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Originally posted by Wonderland

So now naked intimacy with a partner = promiscuity?

Of course, what respectable couple lets themselves be photographed naked and spread to the world?

J a y

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Originally posted by Goosey

Of course, what respectable couple lets themselves be photographed naked and spread to the world?

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Taken by Mads Nissen, a staff photographer for the Danish daily newspaper Politiken, the image shows Russian couple Jon, 21, and Alex, 25, in an embrace.

The photograph’s insight into gay life in Russia highlights the increasing difficulties lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people face under Putin’s regime.

Alessia Glaviano, Picture Editor at Vogue Italia and one of the members of the judging panel, said: “The photo has a message about love being an answer in the context of all that is going on in the world. It is about love as a global issue, in a way that transcends homosexuality.

“It sends out a strong message to the world, not just about homosexuality, but about equality, about gender, about being black or white, about all of the issues related to minorities.”

What are we supposed to do? Run and hide? Kill yourselves because we're gay. No bitch, I don't think so.

Goosey

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Originally posted by J a y

What are we supposed to do? Run and hide? Kill yourselves because we're gay. No bitch, I don't think so.

No, don't invite photographers to take naked photos of you like every other normal person

sheesh.

A Bomb