fagot

The faggot is such a very popular type of hat.

At the beginning of my activist activities, when I went to Moscow for Pride 2006 and photographed the riot police, who were detaining everyone, then while processing the photographs one day I came up with the idea that if I turned the mirror image on the back of the riot police, I would get HOMO. Later, I came across the same ideas from foreign gay activists who instantly read the riot police chevron as “nomo.” I was not the only one and hardly the first one to come up with this idea.

Later, T-shirts with the inscription HOMO in a frame on the back were played at Pride in Berlin by the Russian-language Apartment.

And now they are generally sold.

I love open source licenses in IT, which imply free distribution and often even modification of the code at your own peril and risk. This is often used by commercial projects for their own code or to study other people’s working mechanisms. And you can always see a list of authors and modifiers in open source. This is the basic rule.

In activism and human rights advocacy, everything is somehow accepted for the benefit of humanity, everything is common. Ideas are often adopted, borrowed and copied. But as in any open source, it’s not difficult to mention the evolution of ideas and their participants. This will help future researchers write Wikipedia and their dissertations.

Even in scientific literature, gratitude is usually mentioned at the end. And it has happened that you share your development and idea with a person in the form of a scientific discussion between two colleagues, and then you listen to a report and read an article that it was invented and developed by a “colleague”, a grant was received and an article was written, where in the acknowledgments there was only a link to the grant giver.

This happens quite often in science. And yet you continue to generate and share.

Author: Yuri Gavrikov