t.A.T.u. Singer Julia Volkova Says She Would "Condemn" a Gay Son—but Lesbians Look "Much Nicer"

Russian pop group, neither member of which is a lesbian, was known for having girls make out during their act

By Natalie Finn Sep 19, 2014 8:40 PMTags
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Wait, what about all the things she said?!

Julia Volkova, half of the Russian pop group t.A.T.u. famous for staging girl-on-girl action during their performances, reportedly said on a Ukrainian talk show that she'd be OK if her daughter turned out to be a lesbian, but a son...

Not so much.

"Yes, I would condemn him, because I believe that a real man must be a real man," she said during an appearance on Lie Detector host, according to London's Independent. "God created man for procreation, it is the nature. The man for me is the support, the strength of... I won't accept a gay son."

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"Two girls together—not the same thing as the two men together," Volkova also reportedly said. "It seems to me that lesbians look aesthetically much nicer than two men holding their hands or kissing."

So it's a matter of aesthetics to her?

"I want to say that I'm not against gays, I just want my son to be a real man, not a f-g," she said, per the Independent. "I have many gay friends. I believe that being gay is all still better than murderers, thieves or drug addicts. If you choose out of all this, being gay a little better than the rest."

Well, she did have many gay friends.

Maybe it wasn't so strange after all that t.A.T.u. was invited to perform during the opening ceremony at the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, where a law had just passed making the dissemination of gay "propaganda" illegal.

Once upon a time, in a 2006 interview, Volkova said, "Our slogan is to love and it's not important whom to love. We want to say that a boy can love a boy and a girl can love a girl. If all people would love each other, it would be easier to live in this world. If people are led by hatred and evil, nothing good would happen from this."