The wonders of Eastern Europe: an antigay rock concert
With Sofia Pride already scheduled for 21 June, life in Bulgaria has become much more interesting. :P
Yes, people, this is for real. Here is a far from flattering article about the concert in Bulgarian (I know that some of my Russian readers will understand it, more or less). That rock group is so obscure that nobody seems to have heard about it. :) The most interesting part is that it earned the indignation of the admin of a Bulgarian rock and metal fans' page on Facebook, and I have a very interesting discussion with him there. :)
The concert is sponsored by... guess who... this interesting political party (article in English). The same party that tried to introduce a tougher-than-the Russian antigay law and embarrassed themselves on TV to everybody who knows how to use Google and isn't too lazy to use it. Their ethnic-Bulgarian "nationalism" didn't stop them from being in an informal coalition with the party of the Turkish minority in our current Parliament (while being obviously involved with the Russain government to make things even more interesting), which I suppose is one of the reasons they suffered from such an electoral decline in the EU elections.
The Facebook event for the concert got miraculously deleted; I guess either its page admin didn't endure all the mockery he got in the comments, or there were threats with physical violence there that miraculously reached some Bulgarian Facebook moderator. No amount of reports has managed to close another anti-Pride Facebook event where graphic murder threats are being posted freely.