These Badass Russian Lesbians Just Took the Best Selfie Ever—Because It Actually Matters


When Kseniya, the head of a lesbian night club in St. Petersburg, Russia, and her partner boarded their flight home from Moscow this week, they weren’t expecting to run into one of their local politicians—much less the lawmaker who’s been trying to make their lives hell. The women realized that Vitaly Milonov, a key architect of Russia’s infamousgay propaganda” bill, was sitting one row behind them on their Aeroflot flight, and decided this would be the perfect moment for a kissing selfie (Milonov is the redhead with the glasses):

 

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The caption says: “Who’s that behind us??? MILONOV! And we don’t give a shit! We’re flying to our favorite nightclub, ‘Infinity'”

In a statement to AFP yesterday, Milonov said the couple’s selfie “shows that all LGBT people are mentally ill.” (Yes, solid reasoning.) Kseniya later posted more information about the encounter, along with more photos, on her Vkontakte page:

“Lots of people are asking me about my last post: Did we really go and kiss in front of Milonov? Was it really Milonov? Maybe it was just somebody who looked like him? What was the flight like? And so on. Here are my answers: Yes it was really Milonov! As fate would have it, he was sitting in the row right behind us. The whole flight from Moscow to St. Petersburg, Milonov said nothing to us. We staged the photo shoot in front of him, and he hid behind his tablet when he realized. We’re all super happy. Him—probably not so much.”

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