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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”Remarkably for a film wh such overtly gay ntent, several exterr scen were filmed Mosw. “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. 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.
WHO CONTROLS A GAY RSIAN TEEN-AGER’S STORY?
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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.
MEET THE GAY RSIAN TEENAGER USG TWTER TO COMBAT HOMOPHOBIA
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.
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GAY MAN RSIA FORCED TO HIDG OVER YOUTUBE TERVIEW
Said:"Dpe the panmic we managed to lnch a new pennt magaze dited to queer and gay photography. It jt go to show that there is a market for a well-produced prt magaze showsg fe art photography by queer and gay photographers that is not jt a dick magaze!
After years of unrelentg Rsian media attacks on the LGBT muny (not to mentn the ever-creasg rat of physil attacks for which the anti-gay mpaign provis ver), what uld be more hearteng than apparently ordary Rsians showg solidary wh a group of boys who so fortably habed a two-mute homoerotic performance?