'We're not hidg': Gay and lbian Rsians say a cultural shift is unrway

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.

AN INTERVIEW WH A GAY, RSIAN NEO-NAZI

” 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. 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.

RSIA TO GAYS: SHUT UP AND DISAPPEAR

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.

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. 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.

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

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.

SALLY J. CLARK TO GAY RSIAN TEENAGERS: DROP DEAD

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.

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

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.