Rsia to Gays: Shut Up and Disappear - The Bulwark

Contents:

• ‘AMERIN BANDSTAND’ KEPT SECRET THAT TEEN STARS WERE GAY
• 'WE'RE NOT HIDG': GAY AND LBIAN RSIANS SAY A CULTURAL SHIFT IS UNRWAY
• AN INTERVIEW WH A GAY, RSIAN NEO-NAZI
• RSIA TO GAYS: SHUT UP AND DISAPPEAR
• MAJORY OF RSIANS BELIEVE GAYS NSPIRG TO STROY UNTRY'S VALU, POLL FDS
• SALLY J. CLARK TO GAY RSIAN TEENAGERS: DROP DEAD
• RIGHT-WG NSPIRACY THEORIST BRAGS ABOUT NOT 'LLG GAY' TO WORK AND TWTER HAS QUTNS

‘AMERIN BANDSTAND’ KEPT SECRET THAT TEEN STARS WERE GAY

What they didn’t know was that Arlene and several of the other female dancers, and most of the handsome teen boys, were gay. But back the “Bandstand” days, Smh was one of the show’s secretly gay dancers.

Ray Smh was one of the show’s secretly gay Chevrtt.

And while Smh knew he was gay, he was “shocked” to learn that “most of the guys on ‘Bandstand, ’ so many of them, were gay, ” he told The Post.

'WE'RE NOT HIDG': GAY AND LBIAN RSIANS SAY A CULTURAL SHIFT IS UNRWAY

Clark was “termed” to keep the homosexualy of popular “Bandstand” regulars a secret, Smh said. Sullivan and the other dancers often ngregated Rtenhoe Square, the historic epicenter of what is known as the Cy of Brotherly Love’s “Gayborhood. ” There even was chatter and fear that Clark, who died at 82 2012, sent members of his productn staff to spy on them and report back the nam of the spected gay regulars.

“In other parts of the untry, if you were a gay kid growg up, you were probably the only one town who was gay, ” Sullivan said.

AN INTERVIEW WH A GAY, RSIAN NEO-NAZI

But was not easy on the mean streets of Philalphia to be a “Bandstand” regular spected of beg gay. The bashg of “Bandstand” regulars, gay and straight, happened all the time, Sullivan and Smh reveal. But he vividly rells that one of his fellow gay dancers “was thrown onto the El tracks” outsi the stud, and another popular regular who was gay and often danced wh Sullivan “was dangled over an elevator shaft.

“The parents of one kid on the show found out that he was gay... Many Rsian media outlets were aaid to ver the vio bee of Rsia's law banng displays of "gay propaganda, " Primachenko said.

RSIA TO GAYS: SHUT UP AND DISAPPEAR

In a 2020 ad promotg the nstutnal vote, a gay uple is shown enuragg their newly adopted son to wear a drs. Ten years ago, a bill was passed banng so-lled "gay propaganda" relatn to children.

Human rights groups say that was followed by a rise vlent homophobic attacks Rsia.

MAJORY OF RSIANS BELIEVE GAYS NSPIRG TO STROY UNTRY'S VALU, POLL FDS

But the fear generated by the legislatn is already leadg to censorship: onle cemas have leted LGBT-themed films and TV seri and eded out gay scen. In one episo of the highly-acclaimed HBO seri The Whe Lot, a Rsian streamg service changed the word "gay" to "man", eded a towel onto one male character's bare backsi and leted a gay sex scene, jt days after the law was ptn, The book Shattered, about the romance between two men, has been heavily redacted RsiaBooks, too, are beg censored.

The text has been redacted by the publisher, wh whole sectns replaced wh black of the -thors of the law, an openly homophobic natnalist lled Valy Milonov, agre to speak to me via violk. The European Court of Human Rights led 2017 that the 2013 law is discrimatory, promot homophobia and vlat the European Conventn on Human Rights.

The urt found that the law “served no legimate public tert, ” rejectg suggtns that public bate on LGBT issu uld fluence children to bee homosexual, or that threatened public morals. Homosexualy was crimalized Rsia 1993, but homophobia and discrimatn is still rife.

SALLY J. CLARK TO GAY RSIAN TEENAGERS: DROP DEAD

Speakg before Put signed the bill to the law on Monday, Tanya Loksha, associate Europe and Central Asia director at Human Rights Watch said: “The 2013 ‘gay propaganda’ law was an unabashed example of polil homophobia, and the new draft legislatn amplifi that broar and harsher ways. Image source, RtersThe ntroversial Rsian ban agast promotg so-lled "gay propaganda" looks set to be extend to all move reprents a tougheng of an existg 2013 law, which mak providg rmatn about beg LGBT to children a crimal nvicted face large f for promotg what Rsia lls "non-tradnal sexual relatns" ial approval of the extensn was voted through by the Rsian State Duma unanimoly.

RIGHT-WG NSPIRACY THEORIST BRAGS ABOUT NOT 'LLG GAY' TO WORK AND TWTER HAS QUTNS

Unr the proposal, rmatn about "non-tradnal liftyl" or "the rejectn of fay valu" would be nsired legally the same as pornography, the promotn of vlence, or stokg racial, ethnic and relig also bans the "propaganda of paedophilia" - which the Rsian ernment often nflat wh beg gay. Another element of the extensns prohibs rmatn which might "e mors to sire to change their sex", a reference to transgenr enacted, the law would allow any rmatn on the ter discsg LGBT topics to be blocked and films emed to nta posive pictns of beg gay to be banned.

Khshte, an MP om Mr Put's Uned Rsia Party, told the Duma that the "special operatn" - what the Rsian ernment sists on llg s war Ukrae - is happeng "not only on the battlefield, but also the mds and souls of people" rhetoric follows that of the Rsian print, who has ma beg anti-gay a rnerstone of his domtic agenda and thorarian speech annexg four Ukraian terrori last month, Mr Put ranted about fai wh a "parent number one and a parent number two" - what has been terpreted as a cricism of same-sex fai. He has portrayed Rsia's war Ukrae as a battle between those who support pro-Wtern gay pri events, and those who reject on this story. As Rsia ntu to flounr Ukrae, wh attempts to pture the small town of Bakhmut turng to a grisly reenactment of the Battle of Verdun, and Kreml propagandists lurchg back and forth between hysteril swagger and the five stag of grief, the Rsian polil tablishment has cid to tackle what’s really important: a natnal “Don’t Say Gay” law.