Seven LGBT Rights Activists Protest In Russia Without Getting Arrested

And they look pretty lonely.

Police in Moscow and St. Petersburg detained a total of 14 LGBT rights activists as the Olympic Games formally opened on Friday. But four protestors took to the streets of the southern city of Tolyatti and three others protested in the neighboring city of Samara without attracting the attention of police.

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Tolyatti

Tolyatti

The poster, a play on a song by the Russian pop duo T.a.T.u, who performed at the Olympic opening ceremony, says: "They're not gonna get us, they've already driven us into a corner."

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This poster says "Feast in the time of the plague," a saying that basically means people don't care about the evil going on around them. (Perhaps because they'd rather be shopping.)

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