# Motor rally of death **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 5, 2016, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/motor-rally-of-death/770664 "2016-11-05T01:08:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![alexidsa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/97f17d/32.png) [@alexidsa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alexidsa)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2016, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/motor-rally-of-death/770664/1 "2016-11-05T01:08:31Z")
I’m from Russia and I try to popularize the irrationality of homophobia. I used Great Debates section of this forum to improve my skill of arguing against homophobia (see [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=19743839) for example). Thank you guys, you gave me a lot of good points. Now I’m going to a motor rally giving my new speech about homophobia. I’m gonna travel through Russia, including the most homophobic regions (i. e. Chechnya). If you guys find it interesting, I will post regular updates here. **Why is it important?** People in Russia are unaware about anti-scientific, illogical nature of homophobia. Many pieces of research are just not available in Russian. I’m trying to fix it by uniting the best sexologists, sociologists, etc. around a wiki that explains that kind of stuff. But the problem is our access to media is very limited, so this kind of offline activity is quite important, it supposedly will help spread the word to a significant amount of people. **Is it a suicidal act?** Well… many people around me believe so but I’m gonna prove the opposite. It’s definitely risky but I’m quite experienced in managing homophobic crowds: [LGBT activist vs. 15 naked homophobes in Russia - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXhE1rG7S44) Although it’s hard to predict how it will end: violence and imprisonment are definitely options to consider. \ ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2016, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/motor-rally-of-death/770664/2 "2016-11-05T01:14:29Z")
Reported. ---
**Author:** ![alexidsa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/97f17d/32.png) [@alexidsa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alexidsa)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2016, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/motor-rally-of-death/770664/3 "2016-11-05T01:17:24Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Reported. What do you mean? Did I violate any rule? ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2016, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/motor-rally-of-death/770664/4 "2016-11-05T01:18:40Z")
Fundraising threads need mod permission first. If you have that, it should be noted in the OP. ---
**Author:** ![alexidsa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/97f17d/32.png) [@alexidsa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alexidsa)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2016, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/motor-rally-of-death/770664/5 "2016-11-05T01:27:22Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Fundraising threads need mod permission first. If you have that, it should be noted in the OP. Didn’t know that. If that’s a problem, I can remove the fundraising part. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2016, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/motor-rally-of-death/770664/6 "2016-11-05T01:46:40Z")
I’m closing this thread due to the rules violation. If you wish to ask permission for the fund raising PM a mod after reviewing the registration agreement.