Your son, despite what he might tell you, needs his parents to advise him, meddle in his affairs, even object and interfere. But “supportive” parents who let their gay kids get away with murder-supportive parents who stop parenting their gay kids because they worry about seeming homophobic if they object to lousy gay boyfriends, choices, apparel, et cetera-aren’t doing their gay kids any favours, either. Beyond that, even if I can establish that it’s okay to have an objection, or to feel the need to take some action to be supportive for my son, I don’t know what I can or should do. If I had an 18-year-old heterosexual daughter who was in a relationship with a 31-year-old man, I would have exactly the same concerns and objections. I don’t think this is a gay-versus-straight objection. His mother argues that in order to be supportive, we can’t object to this relationship. Yes, my son is a legal adult at 18 and can make his own decisions, but he’s also still in high school. Here’s the problem: my son is in a relationship with a 31-year-old guy. But, in October 2015, six of the group's members were convicted of various charges including torture, inflicting harm and issuing death threats, according to LGBTQ Nation.I am the father of a recently out 18-year-old gay boy. Russian LGBTQ activists criticized Russian authorities for allowing Occupy Pedophilia to operate without punishment. Martsinkevich's anti-gay group and its videos began to surface in the West the same year that the Russian federal government signed a national law criminalizing as "homosexual propaganda." The law has since been used to shut down LGBTQ youth groups, educational sites as well as to fire gay teachers, arrest people demonstrating for LGBTQ rights and harass queer citizens out of the country. Similarly, most of these "prostitutes" were teenagers and some of the "older men" were themselves older teens or young adults in their early 20s. The campaign also spawned a spinoff group, Occupy Gerontophilia, which targeted young gay people accused of "prostituting" themselves to older men. One of the most popular groups had 75,000 followers, according to the American tech news website The Verge. On Vkontakte, the videos propelled the creation of hundreds of groups devoted to Occupy Pedophilia. Martsinkevich posted the videos through YouTube, Facebook and Vkontakte, the Russian equivalent of Facebook, where they were widely shared and admired. Maxim Martsinkevich on Russian television in 2012. Many of the videos also featured anti-gay slurs and homophobic statements. While Martsinkevich claimed that the videos only targeted pedophiles-purporting to "reform" them or at least punish them as police should-many of the people in his video were teenagers including some aged 15 or younger. Martsinkevich's group claimed to have tortured over 1,500 men. In one video, Martsinkevich brandished a two-pronged fork towards a young man's eye and told him that he could either lose his eye or be sodomized with the fork.
In many of his videos, Martsinkevich and his cohorts punched and slapped the gay men, forced them to strip to their underwear, shaved their heads in reverse Mohawks, painted rainbows in the sheared stripes upon their heads, forced them to hold sex toys, made them state their full names, had them utter self-denigrating statements like "I suck c*ck" and also forced them to drink urine.
Through Format 18, he allegedly arranged the production and sale of videos showing immigrants being tortured.
Martsinkevich-the founder of a Russian Neo-Nazi group called Format 18 (18 being an alphanumeric code representing the first and eighth letters of the alphabet, "A" and "H" for Adolf Hitler)-had been arrested, convicted and imprisoned three times previous to his most recent incarceration, each time for inciting ethnic hatred in public or through his online videos. Maxim Martsinkevich, the 36-year-old Neo-Nazi founder of Occupy Pedophilia, a Russian vigilante group that tortured suspected gay teenagers on video, has reportedly committed suicide while serving a 10-year prison sentence in Siberia for an unrelated violent offense, according to the Moscow Times.