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    Rainbow Flags For Winter Olympics

    A campaign to get rainbow flags all over facebook to support LGBT rights in Russia!

    alexandrak27
    by alexandrak27

    Community Contributor

    https://www.facebook.com/akeyworthwright

    Rainbow Profiles!

    So today is the start of the Russian Winter Olympics.

    We've all seen the amusing pictures posted of the standards of Russian hotels by journalists and we've all heard about the Coca Cola campaign for support for LGBT rights. Ten people have already been arrested for waving rainbow flags in Sochi. So now the time has come to do something about it.

    Buzzfeed themselves posted a terrifying and sickening video showing exactly what LGBT lives are like for those living in Russia at the moment. It may not seem like much, but I am calling for all those on facebook to change their profile pictures to Rainbow Flags (the recognised LGBT symbol) for a little over two weeks to show solidarity.

    You don't have to be an LGBT person to support the fact that everyone has a right to love who they love.

    So please, please, change your profile pic, your twitter pic and share this everywhere.

    Let's show those suffering in Russia that we do not condone what is being done to them!

    http://www.buzzfeed.com/lesterfeder/this-short-film-shows-just-how-terrifying-life-is-for-lgbt-p

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