That includes, in a limited way, our very own.
Several Chicago clubs soon took up the cause, and eventually the movement spread to other cities. He urged bars to keep Russian vodka brands off their shelves. Russia has passed a series of anti-gay laws in recent months, including one banning the broadly defined “gay propaganda,” that have sparked protests from the international community and some calls for a boycott of the 2014 Olympics in Sochi. In response, Dan Savage, columnist and initiator of LGBT causes both high and low, suggested last week that gays begin a boycott of their own. Russia’s recent crackdown on homosexuality has set off a movement that now has gay bars in Boston joining those from Seattle to London in considering taking the Russian vodkas off their shelves.
