EPISODE 2 | Stuart & Francis | Gay Dads | "How to fd your te self and set them ee" | Listen Not

Contents:

• GAY LIFE STAL’S GULAG
• GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI
• THREE SGLE, GAY DADS REFLECT ON FATHERHOOD, SURROGACY JOURNEYS

GAY LIFE STAL’S GULAG

She had never worked wh a gay uple before, but she was up for the challenge helpg source breast k, so we went for !

Bee we shared our story onle, Amanda is now helpg other gay upl the same way.

Upliftg, real and a ltle mp, Stuart and Francis are a new generatn of gay mentors who have skyrocketed to fame on TikTok for their nsistent msage of happs, fay valu and unique approach to storytellg. We discs what means to embark on a surrogacy journey as a gay uple, what life looks like as new parents, and how to go after your dreams.

GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI

Stuart and Francis ndidly speak about their experienc and agree that havg more feme energy as gay men may make easier to navigate parentg, bs, and life general.

Stuart Armfield and Francis Hgen are ntent creators and gay mentors who have amassed an imprsive social media followg across a number of platforms.

From travellg to the USA to try and fd their perfect surrogate mother to fdg out the baby’s genr, Stuart and Francis’ aim is to not only start their own fay but also te and spire the next generatn, provg that is possible for gay upl to start a fay. Takg on the world together bs, travel and fay life the bt iends are refg the narrative of a gay uple hasn’t always been this and Francis grew up the 80’s and 90’s wh a prev generatn fearful of aids, unhealthy relatnships and ias that beg gay led to a difficult and lonely existence. (In 1967 same sex relatnships were ma legal if you were over 21, 1994 the age was lowered to 18 and only 2001 was the legal age lowered to 16 to match heterosexual relatnships)From beg chased out of a classroom at school whilst the bulli shout “Gay, gay, gay” to hearg, “That’s disgtg” when ‘g out’ to your parents.

THREE SGLE, GAY DADS REFLECT ON FATHERHOOD, SURROGACY JOURNEYS

This terview troduc the work of acclaimed historian Dan Healey, who sheds light on how gay men survived the Soviet Gulag, their life afterwards and different attus the USSR to gay men and Healey, Profsor of Morn Rsian History at Oxford Universy, has explored the history of homosexualy tsarist and Soviet Rsia, the nature of masculy unr socialism, the problems of sexual disorrs and sexual vlence the USSR and the history of medice Stal’s Gulag.

Healey is the thor of the only published monograph on the history of homosexualy Rsia: Homosexual Dire Revolutnary Rsia: The Regulatn of Sexual and Genr Gkov spoke to Dan Healey after the lnch of his latt book: Rsian Homophobia om Stal to do we know about gay/queer people Gulag?

We know om FSB archiv and publicly accsible urt papers that homosexual mat of the Gulag were generally men aged between 25 and 50, most of them urban dwellers. That giv you a kd of snapshot of the posn of the group of people imprisoned for their homosexualy unr Article 154-a of the RSFSR Penal relatns between men were punishable by imprisonment of between three and five years, and sexual relatns between men wh the e of vlence or the subjugatn of one party to the other were punishable by imprisonment of between five and eight subjects of your book were not only people arrted unr Article 154-a. You talk about homosexual relatns between prisoners nvicted of other offenc.

Dan Healey's latt book: Rsian Homophobia om Stal to the first place, we need to be reful when we talk about what meant to be a homosexual the Gulag. We don’t know for certa whether the prisoners analysed were actually gay or lbian, or whether they jt acmodated themselv to a particular culture. We still don’t really know why Stal cid to crimalise homosexualy.

Soviet lears feared that homosexual groups uld make a pact wh Germany or other powers to stabilise the n, however, offer a circumstantial explanatn about the polil nature of the cisn. It’s known that 1933 Genrikh Yagoda, the head of the Soviet secret police, wrote a letter to Stal which he said that “homosexuals are beg arrted, but we have realised that we don’t have an article to charge them unr.

” Gays had their own groups, and this put the Soviet ernment on edge. Also, “outg”, the public disclosure of rmatn about gays’ sexual orientatn, uld, an atmosphere of public homophobia, bee a potential risk for blackmail by foreign telligence polil terpretatn of this “crime” was the reason for the severy of sentenc unr Article 154-a, as “polils” were “socially hostile” mat the Soviet prison mp system. Homosexuals were treated even more harshly than prisoners nvicted unr Article 58 (anti-revolutnary activy), as everyone knew that “polil” charg were often fabrited.