Ceremonial protest

Everything was so sad for us, so minor, so depressive. We forgot about the word "parade". Moreover, it was strictly associated with Red Square, Honorary Guard, Mausoleum (which is sometimes draped with a tricolor, as if ashamed of the stands and the guests - clearly healed, but does not know where to go, the benefit of another living space does not provide) and some other satrap, or in a white horse, or in a black limousine.

In parades they shout "Hurray!". So they are happy. Those on white horses, in gray tanks and black cars (and first of the knights of a black cloak and a sharp dagger) have every reason to rejoice: they captured the country, privatized the pipe, at least pour over the gas, at least they are given up. “Yukos” divided, placed money, threw competitors (whom in Krasnokamensk, whom to London, whom in Jerusalem; in total - to the edge of the oykumeni). The opposition was dried, the press (while electronic) was strangled. Rabbits (people) were hypnotized, dissidents were isolated, the West was bought, the east was done. And they set up public tents, where at a similar price the purchase and sale of civil society took place.

I don’t know how artists, artists, musicians, writers, in a word, a creative intelligentsia, I don’t know. Plowing, shabby, piecewise, on a circle, on a card or cache, I will not say. I was not at the head of the head, I would have found something to say to Alice Freindlich, who petitioned Vladimir Putin the status of an honorary citizen of St. Petersburg; Lyudmila Alekseeva, who took flowers to his birthday in front of his hands; And Evgeny Rhine, who was once a frontier and poet, and today translates the Virshi Turkmenbashi.

"Silence of the Sea" of Verkor is still an optimistic option. What would Verkor say about our case, about the silence of the swamp? Only a black ghost howls with burning eyes and mouth, a Baskerville dog, a guard, the Cheka, the KGB, and the FSB, from which death is predicted to us. And on this life-affirming background, gays conceived their parade.

I will say right away: I love all sorts of minorities: national, religious, cultural, sexy. Galina Starovotova Testament: "What to do with minorities?" - "They must be loved." I love. In addition to political: the Nazis and the Communists do not cause me tenderness even in the minority (say, in the USA they are definitely minority, and in England for sure). Everything is in order with us, we can not love them: they are clearly in the majority. Who is not the Nazi, that fascist. Who is not a fascist is a communist. And sometimes in one bottle, both (National Bolsheviks, say). These are liberals and Westerners in our minority, Catholics, humanists, farmers, entrepreneurs, human rights activists, dissidents, Chechens, Jews, Tajiks.

But with all my love for gays, I want to ask: why a parade? The country goes to the hell, the political prisoners were stuck in the camps so that you will not pull them out. On the contrary, they get deeper deeper. Pavel Luzakov has already been sent from the settlement for Tagil, to a terrible local zone, it is not known for what (apparently, tea drunk like Khodorkovsky); They try to do the same with Mikhail Trepashkin. Open -door policy (at the Summit "Eights") and closed bolts. So that the political prisoners do not deteriorate from the heat, they are put on permafrost. So with what joy is the parade?

Today we are not in the parade, but to the dictatorship on the way. Rather, it is necessary to arrange a picket of protest. Western gay parades, colorful, bright, with balls and carnival costumes, are appropriate there, in a good and free world, to which gays appeal: "We are good, we are free, we are funny. Give us a place nearby. We are brothers!"

And there is no one to appeal to anyone. To whom to contact? To the evil witches who stand at the gay clubs with icons in their hands and abuse on the lips? Or to Grimila in the cassoons that stand there and hold crosses, like clubs? So it turned out from the Svistoplysk parade - the "Great Russian Sacrament." Polling type "Gay, Slavs." What are the parades here! Here it is just right to dig in full growth.

Yes, even a stupid idea to lay flowers in the eternal fire. These are not our symbols, not our shrines. We have our Solovetsky stone. In addition to graves, this state did not leave any shrines to us. "A wooden cross Il is a cast -iron appointed to us in the coming darkness."

Of course, the mayor's office who could not ensure the safety of the parade participants. As soon as it provides safety for parades on Red Square ...

Of course, gays had the right to arrange everything they wanted. But was it worth inviting foreigners to be mutilated here? And there is still a system of priorities: let's first pull out prisoners of conscience. Otherwise, it turns out "let the dead bury their dead." Against the backdrop of concentration camps and the tortured Chechnya, the western cheerful parade and resulted in a gloomy totalitarian acceleration and scammers. No need to pretend that we have Europe here. We have a dressed up Asia here, as Edward Radzinsky said in his Lunin.