Apart om activists prottg Mosw and Sat Petersburg, most gay Rsians have attempted to mask their inty, makg difficult for Wterners to know what ’s really like to be gay Rsia. But one gay Rsian teenager is changg this...
Contents:
- THE FILM PUT DON’T WANT THE WORLD TO SEE: FIREBIRD, A GAY LOVE STORY ABOUT FIGHTER PILOTS
- WHO CONTROLS A GAY RSIAN TEEN-AGER’S STORY?
- MEET THE GAY RSIAN TEENAGER USG TWTER TO COMBAT HOMOPHOBIA
- GAY MAN RSIA FORCED TO HIDG OVER YOUTUBE TERVIEW
THE FILM PUT DON’T WANT THE WORLD TO SEE: FIREBIRD, A GAY LOVE STORY ABOUT FIGHTER PILOTS
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“After that, ” adds Prr, “there was a plat about beg ‘homosexual propaganda’. In December 2022, Rsia expand s existg “gay propaganda” law to exert ntrol over public discsns and narrativ surroundg non-heterosexual relatnships and inti.
WHO CONTROLS A GAY RSIAN TEEN-AGER’S STORY?
At a lol church, he met a gay uple, two elrly ary veterans who were raisg two adopted boys. They promised to shelter him, to fix him up wh a uple of gay lawyers who would handle his asylum se, and even, acrdg to the Rsian prs acunts, to pay for him to attend Harvard. Thori would perm her to meet wh him only the prence of Rsian nsular officials and the boy’s gay lawyers.
MEET THE GAY RSIAN TEENAGER USG TWTER TO COMBAT HOMOPHOBIA
The boy had met a gay uple through a lol L. The Rsians, the lawyers told me, ma clear that beg homosexual—which they believed the boy had bee unr the fluence of Amerins—did not f their fn of “well.
GAY MAN RSIA FORCED TO HIDG OVER YOUTUBE TERVIEW
He has moved out of the group home and wh the gay uple om the Kalamazoo L. ” The lead paragraph of the Washgton Post’s article ced a “former participant’s cisn to stay wh a gay uple”—an assertn that the paper repeated the followg day an eloquent edorial on Rsian homophobia, xenophobia, and rptn. A story the Tim stated that the program was ncelled “after a teenage Rsian boy who beiend a gay uple sought asylum the Uned Stat.