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Contents:
- FAR FROM RSIA'S BIGGT CI, BEG GAY MEANS BEG ALWAYS UNR THREAT
- CELEBRATG THE GAY RSIAN CELEBRI HISTORY BOOKS TRIED TO ERASE
- GAY LIBERATN MOVEMENT
FAR FROM RSIA'S BIGGT CI, BEG GAY MEANS BEG ALWAYS UNR THREAT
Instagram project Izvtnye Tetki is reclaimg Rsia’s gay history all s glory * gay konstantin *
TOLYATTI, Rsia — The last two years have been btal for Konstant Golava, a 22-year-old environmental activist and the only publicly out gay person this grty dtrial cy known for r factori, chemil plants, and nothg early 2012, as soon as Golava started dissematg news ems related to LGBT issu through his social media acunts, mors about his sexual orientatn began to spread. Life Tolyatti is stiflg and reprsive, said Vyachlav, another gay man who, like Golava, grew up here.
If people spect you're gay, he said, n be dangero. Bee he would often return home late after beg at a gay club or gatherg, his parents worried that his nocturnal schle meant he was alg dgs. In early December, the new feral law was ced fg Rsian LGBT activists Nikolai Alekseyev and Yaroslav Yevthenko 4, 000 bl (about $120) each for holdg a banner readg "Gay propaganda don't exist.
People don't bee gay, people are born gay" near a library the far northern cy of Arkhangelsk.
CELEBRATG THE GAY RSIAN CELEBRI HISTORY BOOKS TRIED TO ERASE
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Beyond the legal mefield, however, the anti-gay mpaign appears to have provid sanctn for unfettered exprsns of anger and hatred toward the LGBT muny, whout fear of nsequenc. There are equent reports om around the untry about people beg fired for their sexual orientatn, beg beaten up by anti-gay gangs, or otherwise sufferg mistreatment and discrimatn.
GAY LIBERATN MOVEMENT
Somov's work fell to two tegori. His work wh and for the gay Rsian art mafia of the time is what we are terted . * gay konstantin *
"She started wh that phrase all homophob e, 'I am of urse a very tolerant person myself, but... Golava has received moral and legal support om gays and lbians nearby Samara, a historic Volga River port and the regnal pal that unts more than 1 ln rints.