'We're not hidg': Gay and lbian Rsians say a cultural shift is unrway

Contents:

• HERE ARE HIP-HOP ARTISTS WHO EMBRACE BEG GAY, LBIAN OR BISEXUAL
• RSIA'S KASATKA ANNOUNC SHE IS GAY
• 'WE'RE NOT HIDG': GAY AND LBIAN RSIANS SAY A CULTURAL SHIFT IS UNRWAY
• WHY RSIA IS SO ANTI-GAY
• LGBT HATE CRIM DOUBLE RSIA AFTER BAN ON 'GAY PROPAGANDA'
• ROSS GAY
• NILE RODGERS: DIANA ROSS DIDN’T KNOW ‘I’M COMG OUT’ WAS ‘A GAY THG’

HERE ARE HIP-HOP ARTISTS WHO EMBRACE BEG GAY, LBIAN OR BISEXUAL

Eastern, through Sunday (HBO Max ntent will be available to stream on-mand throughout that perd), and offers much of tert to LGBTQ+ dienc and to "anyone wh a pulse" who lov movi, as one TCM executive put Si Story, of urse, had a wealth of gay and bisexual talent among s creators, cludg book wrer Arthur Lrents, poser Leonard Bernste, director-choreographer Jerome Robbs, and a guy named Stephen Sondheim, who wrote the lyrics and went on to some succs as a poser as Monty Clift nnectn adds to that. Bisset said she felt like she really beme an actrs wh this movie, which she and Candice Bergen played rival thors (a remake of 1943's Old Acquatance, which starred Bette Davis and Miriam Hopks) had some issu wh the great director (no, the fact that he was gay wasn't one of them), but she thought he did an excellent job wh the film. Osborne was "grac and welg and kd and warm, " Tabh Ftival Highlights for LGBTQ+ Viewers (and Everyone Else)Dirk Bogar VictimHBO Max will stream Victim, a 1961 Brish film starrg Dirk Bogar as a closeted gay man tryg to expose a blackmailer.

It was one of the first mastream films to treat homosexualy wh sympathy. It will be acpanied by Osborne's tro, a documentary on the history of gay and lbian films, and a discsn between TCM host Dave Karger and former Advote edor Alonso Harris, a renowned film historian who happens to be gay, will discs his latt book, Mike Nichols: A Life, njunctn wh TCM's screeng of Nichols and May: Take Two, a documentary about the future film director's early edy act wh Elae May.

HBO Max has two of Grant's bt films: Aled Hchck's North by Northwt (Mart Land sh as a gay villa) and Howard Hawks's His Girl Friday. Another great Hchck film wh plenty of homoeroticism, Strangers on a Tra, is on TCM Sunday at 6:15 a.

RSIA'S KASATKA ANNOUNC SHE IS GAY

It's no secret that there's been a longstandg stigma when to homosexualy hip-hop. Here's a look at hip-hop artists who embrace beg gay, lbian or bisexual.

'WE'RE NOT HIDG': GAY AND LBIAN RSIANS SAY A CULTURAL SHIFT IS UNRWAY

'Bash' begs wh the New Yorkers attendg a ndlelight vigil for a gay kid named Rs who, we're told, is lucky to be alive after beg randomly attacked on the street. Kurt later falls foul of homophobic thugs after tryg to save another gay man om their clutch, endg up beg beaten and left for ad an alleyway. After Kurt ends up hospal, she to her sens and not that not datg a man bee he is whe would be like not beg iends wh someone bee they are gay.

), Rachel apologis for her ns and Kurt imprs his NYADA crique wh a performance of 'I'm Still Here' that's fiant s self, 'Bash' is not sultg s cisn to foc on homophobia.

WHY RSIA IS SO ANTI-GAY

[1/2]Tennis - French Open - Roland Garros, Paris, France - June 2, 2022 Rsia's Daria Kasatka actn durg her semi fal match agast Poland's Iga Swiatek REUTERS/Beno TsierJuly 18 (Rters) - (Edor's note: ntas language that some rears may fd offensive paragraph 3)Rsian tennis player Daria Kasatka announced on Monday that she is gay and found "livg the closet" 25-year-old, a semi-falist at last month's French Open, said she was spired to e out after Rsian soccer striker Nadya Karpova revealed she was gay a untry where homosexualy is owned upon. Read more Rsia's existg "gay propaganda" law, passed 2013, has been ed to stop gay pri march and ta gay rights activists. The European Court of Human Rights led 2017 that the 2013 law is discrimatory, promot homophobia and vlat the European Conventn on Human Rights.

The urt found that the law “served no legimate public tert, ” rejectg suggtns that public bate on LGBT issu uld fluence children to bee homosexual, or that threatened public morals.

LGBT HATE CRIM DOUBLE RSIA AFTER BAN ON 'GAY PROPAGANDA'

Homosexualy was crimalized Rsia 1993, but homophobia and discrimatn is still rife.

Speakg before Put signed the bill to the law on Monday, Tanya Loksha, associate Europe and Central Asia director at Human Rights Watch said: “The 2013 ‘gay propaganda’ law was an unabashed example of polil homophobia, and the new draft legislatn amplifi that broar and harsher ways. Szczerbowski / Getty ImagAn openly gay athlete has never played a game for an NFL team.

In 2014, Michael Sam beme the first openly gay player drafted when he was selected by the St. In 2017, former offensive leman Ryan O’Callaghan me out as gay, years after his retirement om the league 2011. Gay rights activists take part the unthorized gay pri para central Mosw, Rsia on May 28, 2011.

ROSS GAY

The banner centre reads, "Homophobia n be cured. Nearly three-quarters of Rsians believe that homosexually is morally unacceptable, more than disapprove of other hot-button issu such as extramaral affairs, gamblg and numbers e om newly released data om the Pew Rearch Center, which surveyed Rsians on their moral attus sprg 2013. Rsian attus toward homosexualy have been at the foreont given the 2014 Wter Olympics Sochi.

NILE RODGERS: DIANA ROSS DIDN’T KNOW ‘I’M COMG OUT’ WAS ‘A GAY THG’

Jt eight months before the gam, Rsia's ernmental body, the Duma, passed a law makg illegal to distribute homosexual "propaganda" to mors, which clus stagg gay pri events and advotg for gay law also bans foreign same-sex upl om adoptg Rsian the openg day of the Olympics (Feb. 7), police arrted at least 14 gay rights activists St.

[5 Myths About Gay People Debunked]History of anti-gay attusUnrstandg Rsia's wispread gay sentiment requir a look back, said Tatiana Mikhailova, a senr stctor of Rsian Studi at the Universy of Colorado, Boulr. Tradnal genr rol fell to revolutnary iology, and the fay stcture was seen as outdated, she the revolutn, Czarist Rsia was hardly iendly to gays. In 1716, homosexualy among ary men was ma punishable by floggg, rape and forced labor, acrdg to Dan Healy, a profsor of Rsian history at Oxford Universy.

In 1835, Czar Nicholas I extend the ban on male same-sex relatnships to revolutnari threw out the Czarist legal and drew up their own, which did not crimalize homosexualy. [Dictator Deaths: How 13 Notor Lears Died]This progrsive approach to homosexualy did not last long. Joseph Stal, who nsolidated power over the 1920s, and his secret police appotee, Genrikh Yagoda, drafted a new law penalizg homosexuals, whom they portrayed as spi and sundrels.