The Cambridge History of Gay and Lbian Lerature - November 2014
Contents:
23 - RSIAN GAY AND LBIAN LERATURE
In December 2022, Rsia expand s existg “gay propaganda” law to exert ntrol over public discsns and narrativ surroundg non-heterosexual relatnships and inti. The topic of homosexualy and s histori wh the lands that make up today’s Rsian Feratn has been, until recently, faiar chiefly to stunts of Eastern European or Slavic studi, particularly the fields of lerature, art and mic.
While the censorship mechanisms place durg Tsarist tim and the views on homosexualy held by the Rsian Orthodox clergy severely limed discsn or exprsn of same-sex lov, such relatnships did occur.