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• GAY PROPAGANDA : RSIAN LOVE STORI
• GAY PROPAGANDA: RSIAN LOVE STORI, EDED BY MASHA GSEN AND JOSEPH HUFF-HANNON WORDS WILL BREAK CEMENT: THE PASSN OF PSY RT BY MASHA GSEN, BOOK REVIEW
• 'GAY PROPAGANDA: RSIAN LOVE STORI,' RSIAN-LANGUAGE E-BOOK, GO VIRAL
• MASHA GSEN & JOSEPH HUFF-HANNON, GAY PROPAGANDA. RSIAN LOVE STORI
• GAY PROPAGANDA: RSIAN LOVE STORI: EDED BY MASHA GSEN AND JOSEPH HUFF-HANNON = PROPAGANDA GOMOSEKSUALIZMA V ROSSII EPUB
• GAY PROPAGANDA: RSIAN LOVE STORI
• BOOK REVIEW: GAY PROPAGANDA. RSIAN LOVE STORI
• GAY PROPAGANDA: RSIAN LOVE STORI
• GAY PROPAGANDA: RSIAN LOVE STORI
• 9781939293350 - GAY PROPAGANDA: RSIAN LOVE STORI (3 RULTS)

GAY PROPAGANDA : RSIAN LOVE STORI

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"Judgg om the te acunts Gay Propaganda: Rsian Love Stori, seems as if Soviet bigotry is still ensnced the Kreml. Gay Propaganda is posed of verbatim love stori (not all wh happy endgs) spoken by gays, lbians and transsexuals eher livg Rsia or emigr, not least the book's -edor, Masha Gsen, who left Rsia after "Valy Milonov, the St Petersburg polician who was one of the ma spokpeople for the 'propaganda' bill, told the untry's hight-circulatn daily that Rsian orphans need to be saved om 'perverted fai like Masha Gsen's'.

GAY PROPAGANDA: RSIAN LOVE STORI, EDED BY MASHA GSEN AND JOSEPH HUFF-HANNON WORDS WILL BREAK CEMENT: THE PASSN OF PSY RT BY MASHA GSEN, BOOK REVIEW

"In his forward, Garry Kasparov par Germany's 1936 Olympics to Sochi's 2014, and obliquely, Hler's Nazism to Milonov's "gay propaganda" laws, which enshre the removal of children om gay upl to law. Yet as several terviewe say, beg gay be a form of prott self, even for those who do nothg more "activist" than live openly same-sex relatnships.

'GAY PROPAGANDA: RSIAN LOVE STORI,' RSIAN-LANGUAGE E-BOOK, GO VIRAL

Emigratn and personal safety are repeated preoccupatns: how to get away om the bigotry and beatgs, how to feel that their children will not be kidnapped, often by outraged grandparents, how leavg Rsia is a relief and a all of is bleak: there are parents and grandmothers who shift om homophobia to acceptance.

There is even a gay uple, Andrei and Roman, who n the only gay club Sochi. Lbians kiss durg a 2009 gay rights rally St. This piece is excerpted om Gay Propaganda: Rsian Love Stori, published by OR Books.

MASHA GSEN & JOSEPH HUFF-HANNON, GAY PROPAGANDA. RSIAN LOVE STORI

Eded by Masha Gsen and Joseph Huff-Hannon, Gay Propaganda gathers personal ttimoni of ordary LGBT Rsians livg Rsia and exile.

GAY PROPAGANDA: RSIAN LOVE STORI: EDED BY MASHA GSEN AND JOSEPH HUFF-HANNON = PROPAGANDA GOMOSEKSUALIZMA V ROSSII EPUB

It is an tentnally provotive riposte to Rsia's recently passed and ill-fed ban on "homosexual propaganda.

" The stori gathered the book offer an timate wdow to the hardships faced by Rsians on the receivg end of state-sanctned homophobia, as well as the humor, passn, and rilience people show the face of adversy. The day Vya filed for divorce was the same day a member of the lg Uned Rsia party filed a bill parliament mandatg the removal of children om parents spected of beg gay or lbian. From Gay Propaganda: Rsian Love Stori, eded by Masha Gsen and Joseph Huff-Hannon, published by OR Books.

Yet, the physil threat and broar supprsn of civil rights all but stroy the right of queer Rsians to publicize the happy, romantic or even mundane stori of their that reason, Joseph Huff-Hannon and Masha Gsen eded Gay Propaganda, providg a platform for queer Rsians to tell their love stori their own words. "If you are an artist or a filmmaker or wrer Rsia, you n't clu any gay people any of your stori, " says Huff-Hannon. Government and news offil nmned the LGBT muny over natnal broadst, equatg gays to the Antichrist.

GAY PROPAGANDA: RSIAN LOVE STORI

"In publishg Gay Propaganda, Huff-Hannon hop to brg nuanced views and stori to the nversatn. "For more on Gay Propaganda, vis the webse. 13, a Rsian language book tled Gay Propaganda: Rsian Love Stori has gaed global attentn the face of Rsia's extreme crackdown on s lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) muny.

Eded by Rsian journalist Masha Gsen and Amerin activist Joseph Huff-Hannon, the Rsian language versn of Gay Propaganda: Rsian Love Stori has already been download more than 10, 000 tim sce s release. It shows, bee – and the edors adm this – the spectm of experienc is limed to mostly well-off Rsian gays and lbians, mostly upl wh higher tn and the abily to travel abroad. The publitn of the book is a rponse to a wave of state-sponsored homophobia Rsia, culmatg a bill banng 'propaganda of non-tradnal sexual relatns' - often narrowly terpreted as banng propaganda of homosexualy, but fact verg a much broar spectm of non-patriarchal sexual relatns.

Gay Propaganda brgs together 'Rsian love stori' - stori of gays and lbians (pl one trans*) - and their life Rsia, before and after the passg of the law. It is full of stori of the daily stggle agast homophobia, of keepg sane an sane environment, of hate and love.

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It is also full of stori of how state-sponsored homophobia, fuellg homophobic vlence, creat an atmosphere of fear and paranoia, and the power of people to overe their fears and live their liv. However, also shows that homophobia do not reach everywhere – there are also mothers, fathers, and iends who have ltle problems wh their lgbt offsprg or iends, creatg islands of sany a sea of homophobia. This dience clus lgbt people all the world over – but most likely the untri of the former Soviet Unn – that live an environment of state-sponsored homophobia.

The book foc on gay (and lbian) liv and inti, extrapolatg om lgbt inty polics as we know the Wt.

Given the limatns, to me the tle of the book – gay propaganda – tak on a send, probably untend, meang: propaganda for the normalisatn of gay (and lbian) inti along heterosexual mols.

GAY PROPAGANDA: RSIAN LOVE STORI

Comprised of firsthand acunts, reportage and terviews, this book is a provotive riposte to Rsia's recently passed and ill-fed ban on "homosexual propaganda. " Gay Propaganda brgs together origal stori, terviews and ttimonial, prented both English and Rsian, to pture the liv and lov of LGBT Rsians livg both Rsia and exile.

GAY PROPAGANDA: RSIAN LOVE STORI

The book is a provotive riposte to Rsia's recently passed and ill-fed ban on "homosexual propaganda.

Hopg to manipulate backward but wily-held prejudic, opted to monize gays and lbians. The acunts gathered Gay Propaganda offer a timely and timate wdow to the hardships faced by Rsians on the receivg end of state-sanctned homophobia.

It shows, bee – and the edors adm this – the spectm of experienc is limed to mostly well-off Rsian gays and lbians, their majory upl wh the abily to travel abroad, and wh higher tn. The publitn of the book is a rponse to a wave of state-sponsored homophobia Rsia, culmatg a bill banng “‘propaganda of non-tradnal sexual relatns” - often narrowly terpreted as banng propaganda of homosexualy, but fact verg a much broar spectm of non-patriarchal sexual relatns (see ILGA Europe, 11 June 2013).

9781939293350 - GAY PROPAGANDA: RSIAN LOVE STORI (3 RULTS)

“Gay propaganda” brgs together “Rsian love stori” - stori of gays and lbians (pl one trans*) - and their life Rsia, before and after the passg of the law.

It is full of stori of how state-sponsored homophobia fuellg homophobic vlence creat an atmosphere of fear and paranoia, and the power of people to overe their fears and live their liv. But also shows that homophobia do not reach everywhere – there are also mothers, fathers, and iends who have ltle problems wh their lgbt offsprg or iends, creatg islands of sany a sea of homophobia. And this dience are lgbt people all the world over – but most likely the untri of the former Soviet Unn – that live an environment of state-sponsored homophobia tryg to keep sane.

Sce Print Vladimir Put signed a bill last year banng pro-gay rights “propaganda, ” hate crim and vlence toward Rsian gays has spiked across the untry.