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TEENAGE BOY WHO GAVE RUDOLF NUREYEV THE FIRST LSON GAY SEX
" Five years olr than Nureyev, wh wavy blond hair and Cupid's-bow lips, Kiselev was "an exotic" by Lengrad standards, one of a terie of homosexual iends who, he says, were already aware of Nureyev's te sexual orientatn. Shy, awkward and foppish, the oppose of his gregar brother, Sergei had a secret: He was gay.
THE GAY NABOKOV
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 him.
Acrdg to Sikorski, who quatly refers to Sergei's homosexualy as his "attu, " the fay stuted a kd of "don't ask, don't tell" policy.
Vladimir was the young homme du mon -- handsome, romantic looks, somethg of a snob and a gay charmer -- Serge was the dandy, an athete and balletomane... But he was gay, a b dolent, and highly sensive (and therefore an easy butt for teasg sports). Sergei f easily to the growg gay muny there, and he was iendly wh German activist Magn Hirschfeld, founr of the world's first gay tolerance anizatn.