Show HN: Moscow banned Gay Pride for 100 years, so we invite them here instead

tinco 13 years ago |

I don't want to rain on your parade (ahem) but have you notified the authorities of the possible influx of more russians than expected? If your campaign is successful it might attract more than only gay russians.

There's a particular kind of asshole that will take an airplane just to mess up someone else's party, and if the authorities aren't prepared it could ruin the night for some.

gori 13 years ago | |

We love Russians, I'm married to one myself. Why would we be afraid of them?

tinco 13 years ago | | |

I didn't mean Russians in general, I'm sure they are welcome, I just meant that they might inadvertently invite Russian homophobes.

JackpotDen 13 years ago | | |

Traveling Homophobes.

pud 13 years ago |

I clicked the Tweet button and it wanted to oAuth me. Why not just open a pre-filled Tweet box? No offense, I'm not giving you oAuth access so you can send 1 tweet.

gori 13 years ago | |

We also set longitude and latitude for tweets to inside Russia. Promise though - we don't do anything but tweet it, but guess you'll have to trust us on this one.

askar_yu 13 years ago |

Could somebody help me understand what's the hype about the Gay marriage/pride thing? I don't know why but I am noticing a lot of buzz recently about this ("Gay parade banned somewhere", "Minnesota approved the same-sex marriage", "US supreme court to rule... about Gay marriage"). What I mean is in the ladder of problems that world has this has gone up extremely. What's the force behind it?

tommorris 13 years ago | |

Some people are gay.

We quite like having equal rights.

We've been asking for equal rights since the 60s and 70s.

We'll stop making such a big deal about it when we have equal rights.

Any questions?

seivan 13 years ago | |

Yeah, civil liberties and equal rights are all hype. If you need help understanding it, you got some deeper issues, son. http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/04/12/gay-man-separated-from...

edent 13 years ago | |

The thing is, even if it were way down on the list of priorities (it's not) we can do more than one thing at a time.

It's not a choice of "repair the roads or ensure human rights for all" we can do both.

gokhan 13 years ago |

Great design. The last two options in folding dropdowns are not clickable for me on Firefox.

uaydin 13 years ago |

A noble idea and a great site. May I ask you, how did you achieve the dropdown effect?

gori 13 years ago | |

Tohank you, and f course you can. We used a modified version of http://soulwire.github.io/Makisu/ with a simple fallback for browsers that can't do css 3d transforms.

arianvanp 13 years ago |

" Look at that! You are the 28th person to tweet a message of love from Saint Petersburg"

I don't know where you get your geolocation data from, but I don't live anywhere near russia.

Svip 13 years ago | |

Maybe they just make everyone pretend they live in Russia, so Putin might be convinced that there is a huge movement for reform. You know, like that's gonna matter to him.

guard-of-terra 13 years ago | | |

There is a huge speculation that Putin is gay himself, but apparently he is happy staying in the closet.

arianvanp 13 years ago | | |

This needs a photoshop with sooo many rainbows: http://baron.druga-strana.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Put...

gori 13 years ago | | |

mission accomplished: http://imgur.com/7YJ8GpU

Svip 13 years ago | | |

Name a great leader we speak of in awe, horror or affection, surrounding whom there hasn't been huge speculation whether they were gay.

guard-of-terra 13 years ago | | |

This speculation happens to be backed by facts. I've never heard speculations that Mao or Kennedy or Hitler were gay.

Svip 13 years ago | | |

I have heard hundreds about Hitler, I'm afraid. It is often inspired by his lack of affections for women, and the fact that Eva Braun was the only he ever really got close to. But the truth is more likely that Hitler was asexual than homosexual.

As for Mao, I don't think most of us knows about his personal life. So that is probably hindering the speculations.

And why do you consider Kennedy a great leader?

gori 13 years ago | |

Read the fine print, we set the twitter geolocation for your tweet, if you have geolocation on.

Isn't it kinda fun, to have sent a tweet from Russia? Just imagine you're standing in a big square in St Petersburg with a proud rainbow flag, inviting Russians to Stockholm!

guard-of-terra 13 years ago |

I guess swedish visa is not included.

arianvanp 13 years ago | |

It's not difficult at all to get a Swedish travel visa (Or any European travel visa). We've got plenty of Russian tourism here.

guard-of-terra 13 years ago | | |

It's not but it still requires some planned effort beforehand, as opposed to just hopping on a plane & airbnb.

The event is sufficiently in the future so this is feasible, tho.

mseebach 13 years ago | | |

To hop on a plane and AirBnB, you also have to, you know, book a ticket and a room. The level planning required is similar in scope to that, it's just unfamiliar to those of us privileged enough to live in countries that are largely permit visa-less travel. To the rest of the world, getting a visa is every bit a central to foreign travelling as booking a flight.

(.. leading to situations such as once when ... my friend ... had to cancel a trip to India last minute because he hadn't thought to apply for a visa.)