The point about boycotting the games would be to send a message to both Russia and the IOC. Sure, the athletes have trained for the games, but I think working to end discrimination is a higher cause.
Russia is not actively against LGBT. Same-sex activity is legal, gender change is legal, don't ask don't tell military policy, they can adopt. They just can't marry or hold parades in moscow or preaching to children.
Russia is not actively against them, but their rights have been taken away.
If you're being the target of hatecrimes, the police won't help you. They will keep an eye closed and let it fester.
You can be arrested and incarcerated or sent to a camp in Russia for kissing in public (as an LGBT-couple).
It's a disgrace to humans, to be fair.
I don't think what Russia is doing is that bad. Lots of countries don't allow same sex marriages, so civil unions isn't far off. Gay pride parades seem to be a movement towards identity and alienation and I personally wouldn't go to one. Obviously they had trouble in the past with these parades and have taken preventative steps, and I don't think anyone should have a problem with that. Stopping LGBT propaganda from being distributed to minors seems fine to me. In my country you aren't supposed to spread any propaganda of any kind to minors - though of course churches still manage to grab people at a tender age.
Russia is not actively against LGBT. Same-sex activity is legal, gender change is legal, don't ask don't tell military policy, they can adopt. They just can't marry or hold parades in moscow or preaching to children.
Different countries have different laws and cultures, Russia isn't even that extreme so I don't see why anyone would boycott.
That's not policy, those are specific failures. There have been hate crimes, but in USA there are hate crimes too - attitudes of the people are not attitudes of the government.
By the way I doubt that last part is true. Citation needed.
I don't see how forbidding LGBT people marriages isn't actively against LGBT interests.
One thing that bothers me most is that homosexual couples aren't allowed to adopt children.
You are misrepresenting that issue. Homosexual couples cannot enter civil unions or marriages. Since there is no way for them to legally be acknowledge as a couple, there is no way for them to adopt children as a couple.
However there is no restriction on adoption for single parents, so although they cannot enter a civil union or marriage, they can still adopt.