Was Gogol Gay? | Helen Muchnic | The New York Review of Books

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• SORRY, RSIA, BUT TCHAIKOVSKY WAS DEFELY GAY
• WAS NIKOLA TELSA GAY?A GENI VENTOR HAS TO KEEP SECRETSJONATHAN POLETTI·FOLLOWPUBLISHED ???????????·8 M READ·APR 15, 2021--3SHAREHE SAID HE’D “NEVER TOUCHED A WOMAN,” AND THAT HE NEED TO BE SGLE FOR HIS WORK. IS THAT ALL THERE’S TO SAY ABOUT THE SEXUALY OF NIKOLA TLA?I’M LOOKG OVER BGRAPHY OF THE GENI VENTER. A 1981 BGRAPHY, TLA: MAN OUT OF TIME, BY MARGARET CHENEY, NOT “WHISPERS THAT HE WAS A HOMOSEXUAL.”NIKOLA TLA BY NAPOLEON SARONY C.1895 (LORIZED/PHOTO ENHANCED)TELSA WAS FELY ‘QUEER’—AS SUPER STRANGE.TO LOOK OVER PERD SCRIPTNS OF TLA IS TO SEE PEOPLE REGISTERG HIS UNUAL BEG. AN 1891 NEWSPAPER PROFILE:“HE IS SLENR BODY, NERVO HIS MOVEMENTS AND TENSE HIS APPLITN TO THE MYSTERI OF ELECTRICY. HIS GREEK FACE LIGHTS UP AND HIS BLACK EY GLEAM WHEN HE DISURS ON HIS FAVORED THEME.”HE SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN ‘DIFFERENT’ SCE HE WAS A CHILD CROATIA. THAT’S LTLE NIKOLA—WAY OFF TO THE LEFT.TLA FAY: MILUT, DA, DANE, MILKA, ANGELA, MARI, WH NILA TO FAR LEFTOVER THE NEXT YEARS, HE CHANGED HIS STYLE OFTEN—WH HAIR, CLOTH, AND BODY POSTURE ALMOST SUGGTG DIFFERENT MEN.FALLY HE LANDS ON HIS SIGNATURE POSE—STARG AT THE MERA THAT TENSE ‘NIKOLA TLA’ WAY. IS THE FAMO ‘GAY CISG’ STARE?IN NEWSPAPER PROFIL, HIS SGLE STAT KEPT BEG RAISED.
• NIKOLAY GAY BGRAPHY
• GAY, NIKOLAY
• CELEBRATG THE GAY RSIAN CELEBRI HISTORY BOOKS TRIED TO ERASE
• WAS GOGOL GAY?
• GAY HISTORY – JANUARY 26: NIKOLA TLA WAS HOT, THE FIRST GAY WEDDG LICENSE, AND RENT OPENS OFF B’WAY

SORRY, RSIA, BUT TCHAIKOVSKY WAS DEFELY GAY

Historians don't doubt that Pyotr Tchaikovsky was gay, but an upg bpic filmed his native untry will.

WAS NIKOLA TELSA GAY?A GENI VENTOR HAS TO KEEP SECRETSJONATHAN POLETTI·FOLLOWPUBLISHED ???????????·8 M READ·APR 15, 2021--3SHAREHE SAID HE’D “NEVER TOUCHED A WOMAN,” AND THAT HE NEED TO BE SGLE FOR HIS WORK. IS THAT ALL THERE’S TO SAY ABOUT THE SEXUALY OF NIKOLA TLA?I’M LOOKG OVER BGRAPHY OF THE GENI VENTER. A 1981 BGRAPHY, TLA: MAN OUT OF TIME, BY MARGARET CHENEY, NOT “WHISPERS THAT HE WAS A HOMOSEXUAL.”NIKOLA TLA BY NAPOLEON SARONY C.1895 (LORIZED/PHOTO ENHANCED)TELSA WAS FELY ‘QUEER’—AS SUPER STRANGE.TO LOOK OVER PERD SCRIPTNS OF TLA IS TO SEE PEOPLE REGISTERG HIS UNUAL BEG. AN 1891 NEWSPAPER PROFILE:“HE IS SLENR BODY, NERVO HIS MOVEMENTS AND TENSE HIS APPLITN TO THE MYSTERI OF ELECTRICY. HIS GREEK FACE LIGHTS UP AND HIS BLACK EY GLEAM WHEN HE DISURS ON HIS FAVORED THEME.”HE SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN ‘DIFFERENT’ SCE HE WAS A CHILD CROATIA. THAT’S LTLE NIKOLA—WAY OFF TO THE LEFT.TLA FAY: MILUT, DA, DANE, MILKA, ANGELA, MARI, WH NILA TO FAR LEFTOVER THE NEXT YEARS, HE CHANGED HIS STYLE OFTEN—WH HAIR, CLOTH, AND BODY POSTURE ALMOST SUGGTG DIFFERENT MEN.FALLY HE LANDS ON HIS SIGNATURE POSE—STARG AT THE MERA THAT TENSE ‘NIKOLA TLA’ WAY. IS THE FAMO ‘GAY CISG’ STARE?IN NEWSPAPER PROFIL, HIS SGLE STAT KEPT BEG RAISED.

Historians don't doubt that Peter Tchaikovsky was gay, but an upg bpic filmed his native untry will.

NIKOLAY GAY BGRAPHY

Yuri Arabov told a Rsian newspaper that his adaptatn of the 19th century poser's life won't foc on his sexualy bee “ is far om a fact that Tchaikovsky was a homosexual, " The New York Tim also said that films that "advertise" homosexualy are "outsi the sphere of art, " and that only "philist" thk the poser was gay. In light of Rsia's recent anti-gay legislatn, this uld be seen as another effort to erase the untry's gay history.

Well, sorry Rsia, but Tchaikovsky — along wh dozens of other Rsian cultural ins — were gay, as many scholars would readily Tchaikovsky (poser)Tchaikovsky posed two of the most qutsentially Rsian ballets — Swan Lake and The Nutcracker. Harry wr (emphasis add): The history of Tchaikovsky's homosexualy was supprsed Rsia by the Soviets, and has only recently bee wily known post-Soviet Rsia. Tchaikovsky's letters and diari, as well as the letters of his brother Most, who was also gay, make clear his orientatn.

] Many of Tchaikovsky's most timate relatnships were homosexual: Tchaikovsky's servant Aleksey Soonov and his nephew, Vladimir “Bob” Davydov. Gay thor E. For stance, Wiley pots out that Tchaikovsky was openly gay all his life, to the pot that he femised the nam of the young men he nsorted wh, and ed his own – signg a letter to his brother (who was also gay) "Petrola".

GAY, NIKOLAY

Nikolai Gogol (thor)The 19th century novelist, bt known for Dead Souls and his short stori, was also homosexual. The Sexual Labyrth of Nikolai Gogol, by fellow gay Rsian Simon Karlsky, argued that evince of Gogol's homosexualy uld be found his works. In her review of the book for The New York Review of Books, Helen Muchnic laid out Karlsky's argument this way: His this, brief outle, is that Gogol, unable to be himself a world where homosexualy was proscribed, ncealed his clatns, attempted to supprs his emotns, projected his secretivens unnscly the ceptns, mystifitns, and symbols of his stori and plays, and ultimately broke down unr the stra, g his art and stroyg himself.

CELEBRATG THE GAY RSIAN CELEBRI HISTORY BOOKS TRIED TO ERASE

Here's an excerpt om her 1924 poem "Dreams": Only dreams, wh a broken off moan, so as not to die her sleep, on such a mellifluo wave, above this sky-blue drowng, her whole cht heavg eely wh breath, my soul is published several llectns of poems until censorship unr the Soviet ernment emed her works "unlawful" Nabokov (brother of Vladimir Nabokov)Vladimir Nabokov, bt known for his 1955 novel Lola, was a known homophobe. Y as Lev Grossman explaed this 2000 piece for Salon, his brother was a known homosexual. Grossman wrote: Sergei’s homosexualy would st a long shadow over his strange and heroic life, and would also, ultimately, be the e of his horrifyg and untimely ath.

It st a shadow over Vladimir’s life as well: He loved his brother, but whatever else he may have been — a brilliant wrer, a lovg father — Vladimir was a nfirmed homophobe, and his gay brother was a nstant source of shame, nfn and regret to died a Nazi labor mp, while Vladimar went on to wre several novels. Meanwhile, gay characters appear throughout Vladimir's work, possibly regnn of his article is om the archive of our partner The Wire.

End they go home to their wiv and male adult performers who go "gay for pay, " a term ed to scribe gay porn which two (or more) otherwise straight dus have sex on mera, the above scenar is jt another day at the Male Porn Stars Are Straight — But They Have Sex Wh Men for a LivgSource: YouTubeThis week, MTV is airg an episo of Te Life explorg the liv of two such performers, and their stggl to balance the seemgly nflictg mands of their profsnal and personal liv. "Ben is a married fay man who recently started performg gay sex films to support his kids... They're risg stars the gay porn dtry, but will the prsur of every day life force them to rensir their lucrative reers?

WAS GOGOL GAY?

"Though the ble special is jt g out now, gay-for-pay porn is a fairly well-tablished phenomenon. In straight porn, the pay for men is notorly lower than the pay for women, so "gay porn [actors] general make a lot more than straight porn, " Damian McKnight, the CEO and producer of the succsful gay-for-pay se Broke Straight Boys, told the Daily Dot last year.

GAY HISTORY – JANUARY 26: NIKOLA TLA WAS HOT, THE FIRST GAY WEDDG LICENSE, AND RENT OPENS OFF B’WAY

The women get more exposure and rpect the dtry, and for gay porn 's the male stars. In a book that me out earlier this year, Not Gay: Sex Between Straight Whe Men, thor Jane Ward argued that male sexualy is a lot more fluid than most of are willg to acknowledge.

" she prevly told said, adult entertament publicist Mike Stabile told Mic that he believ the sexualy of a gay-for-pay porn star is likely to be a b more flexible than your average joe. "They seemed to have more of a fluid sexualy, or were jt extremely sexual, even if they intified as straight their private liv, " he said of the gay-for-pay actors he's worked wh the past. "Of urse, there are some who are jt bee of the money, guys who sist on havg loud cellphone nversatns wh their girliends while on-set, or beg homophobic.

), another qutn remas: Why the hell are gay guys so drawn to porn featurg straight (or "straight") dus the first place? That's a ltle more plited, as some believe that gay men's tenncy to fetishize straight men engagg gay sex stems om a ep-rooted place of self-loathg or shame. "Bee of ternalized homophobia (which typilly looms large before and durg the early g-out procs), they're more often lookg for men who act mascule, " thor Joe Kort wrote 2013 for the Huffgton Post.

"Gay guys are attracted to hot guys, no matter of their orientatn, " he wrote 2012. "Also, many gay guys thk straight guys are even hotter bee they're so naturally butch and hard to get. "Regardls of why sells, though, participatg gay-for-pay porn isn't always a walk the park.

For stance, when gay-for-pay porn star Chris Tyler was asked by the Village Voice what the harst part of his job was, he answered:"Takg a 10-ch-pl dick. "Talk about workg hard for the out the full preview for MTV's Te Life: I'm a Gay for Pay Porn Star below:Source: YouTube.

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