Gays as Human Prey: The Terrifying Truths of 'Hunted: The War on Gays in Russia'

An HBO documentary on the treatment of LGBT in Russia , due to be aired on the 6th October and was filmed at the end of last year. Claims the state are doing nothing/little to stop it, as for some of the quotes in the trailer ffs

Trailer for the show on the 6th October -

http://www.hbo.com/documentaries/hu...6JeamcjIyskknlpbkF+QkVtqWFJWmsjGyMQIAWCcXOA==


Gays as Human Prey: The Terrifying Truths of 'Hunted: The War on Gays in Russia'

A man knocks on a door and is instantly pounced on by a half-dozen men in their twenties. The ringleader, a woman with fiery red hair and severe bangs, smiles and shouts, "Hold him down!" The terrified victim grunts and pleads as he is punched into submission by Sergei, the most muscular of the group. "I'll * on you," Sergei says. "Give us an interview or we'll give you the police. They'll rape you with a sharp stick." Nearby, two more men hover over a laptop, searching for the next mark.
The scene is real, the participants members of a St. Petersburg-based vigilante group calling itself Operation Pedophilia. The shocking imagery — rife with the kinds of dehumanization tactics and casual brutality that instantly evoke * treatment of the Jews — serves as the centerpiece of a new documentary, the Matthew Bomer-narrated Hunted: The War Against Gays in Russia, debuting Oct. 6 on HBO.
Director Ben Steele tells The Hollywood Reporter that it took little convincing to get Operation Pedophilia and similar bands of anti-gay crusaders to agree to let him tag along on their "safaris," as they call the ambushes, which are videotaped and later uploaded online for maximum public humiliation. "They feel that they are representing the views of the majority of Russians and they feel they have the support from Russian authorities," says Steele. "They’re proud of what they’re doing and feel they’re doing the right thing."
The hard truth is that they have no reason to believe otherwise. Hunted was shot in November and December of last year, after Russia's president Vladimir Putin passed a flurry of anti-gay legislation that trampled the rights of its LGBT citizens and their supporters. Most of the world first learned of the country's growing anti-gay climate in the months leading up to the Sochi Olympics in February. A number of athletes spoke out against the policies while on the world stage, but demands from human rights groups that major sponsors like NBCUniversal, Coca-Cola, Visa and General Electric boycott the games fell on deaf ears.
Perhaps if Steele's film had come sooner, the story would be different. Clocking in at a lean 48 minutes, Hunted is a visceral and terrifying experience, unflinching in its inclusion of scenes from brutal Internet trophy videos. In them, gay men are tracked down by marauding groups of thugs then overpowered, stripped naked, covered in urine and made to dance like children before being pummeled into unconsciousness.
"Hunting season is open," says one of those victims, a soft-spoken man in his twenties who had recently lost an eye after shooters stormed a gay community meeting. (The police have yet to make any arrests.) The man in the eye patch goes on to bemoan the current climate, in which church and state collude to paint a distorted portrait of all LGBT individuals as predatory pedophiles. The film says a majority of Russian citizens agree.
But Hunted eschews talking-head politicians, focusing instead on the self-appointed enforcers enabled by their laws. So in addition to the safaris, we spend time with a married father of one who spends his free time mounting Internet smear campaigns against gay sympathizers, including one straight woman who is a schoolteacher. Later, the same man gloats as police evacuate a tiny LGBT film festival in St. Petersburg after a bomb scare is called in.
The intention is to turn a nebulous humanitarian struggle halfway across the world into something palpable, terrifying and all too real. Says Steele: "I wanted to get to the core of the issue."
Hunted: The War Against Gays in Russia debuts Oct. 6 at 9 p.m. on HBO.

https://uk.movies.yahoo.com/gays-human-prey-terrifying-truths-hunted-war-gays-181032106.html

 

Sounds totally brutal and shocking stuff. To act like that towards another person is just win horrific.

 

St. Petersburg, sounds lovely there.

 

I've always said; Those who oppose homosexuality the most vehemently would secretly love a big fat * in every orifice.

Russian closets must be rammed.

 

Seen quite alot on this already, young girl with red hair is one of the leaders.

 

Even tatu are against them the 2 * made a fortune off pretending to be lesbein and all the *

 

That'll go down well with a select few in here. :smiley-laughing002:

 

Chokin for a Burst Arseski......

 

+1

Those least sure of their own selves are the ones most likely to attack others for being happy.

http://elitedaily.com/news/world/homophobic-men-aroused-gay-male-porn-surprised/

 

Arseholes.

 

Operation Paedophilia? Didn't think that one through, did they?

Scum.

 

Red hair and severe bangs according to the above.

 

I can't believe places like this are given huge international events like the Olympics or the world cup, anyone who attended the last world cup and the next two will basically be funding racist homophobes and slave labour.

 

Even Brazil was wrong for the mast poverty that still exists today and the money was just a waste never thought I'd say it but give the world cup to England

 

I forgot to mention the problem with Brazil in my post :smiley-laughing002:
but yeah, that fact that the Russian government doesn't care isn't surprising as they aren't known for their friendliness but people from other countries believing Russia to be a place suitable for thousands of people including kids to travel to is disgusting.

 

They won it fairly not like the biggest sponsor of the biggest confederation is owned by russia or anything . funny thing is they do a lot worse further east in Chechnya tons of mass graves there

 

Where do you draw the line? The last World Cup was in Brazil, a country who spent billions on stadiums when a massive portion of their population live in shocking poverty. The last Olympics was in Britain, should we have got it after our invasion of Iraq, causing the deaths of countless people?

Then there's South Africa and China...

 

Probably a fair point but at lest when events like that take place we can highlight theses acts and apply worldwide pressure but I do think come 2018 putin will do a Hitler and stop all of the homophobeia till its over

 

I get what you're saying, says a lot about recent world history when Japan and Germany are better places to host a world cup than most other countries in the world.

 

I actually found her quite hot tbh lol