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:
- WHO CONTROLS A GAY RSIAN TEEN-AGER’S STORY?
- MEET THE GAY RSIAN TEENAGER USG TWTER TO COMBAT HOMOPHOBIA
- GAY RSIAN TEENS MUNITE SECRET TO AVOID LAW ON 'PROPAGANDA'
- RSIA’S GAY LAW ISOLAT LGBT TEENAGERS
- THE FILM PUT DON’T WANT THE WORLD TO SEE: FIREBIRD, A GAY LOVE STORY ABOUT FIGHTER PILOTS
- WATCH A TEENAGE BOY FD A STACK OF GAY PORN IN ADAM BARAN’S ADORABLE SHORT FILM ‘JACKPOT’
WHO CONTROLS A GAY RSIAN TEEN-AGER’S STORY?
* gay russian teenagers *
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.
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. 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.
Only one person knew that Svetlana was gay when she wrote to Deti-404, a Rsian support group for lbian teenagers.
GAY RSIAN TEENS MUNITE SECRET TO AVOID LAW ON 'PROPAGANDA'
In her letter, the 16-year-old scribed a life of hidg her sexualy a small town central Rsia where a man had been killed for beg a homosexual.
Or at least be tolerant of me', " she, which tak s name om the error page that appears when a webse do not exist, was set up by Lena Klimova, 25, after she wrote an article about the plight of LGBT (lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr) teenagers. "The small support group is one of the few for young gay people Rsia. It would also seem to be exactly the thg that the ntroversial anti-gay law passed by the Rsian parliament wish to crack down on.
RSIA’S GAY LAW ISOLAT LGBT TEENAGERS
The law, siar to the sectn 28 law that was passed by Margaret Thatcher's ernment 1988, bans the dissematn of "propaganda of non-tradnal sexual orientatn" towards unr-18s and impos f on anyone legislatn has ed an outcry the wt, leadg Stephen Fry to pared the suatn of gays and lbians Rsia to that of Jews Nazi Germany. Teenagers smaller towns – where there are few, if any, openly out people and no gay scene – have the harst. "Our school is nsired progrsive, but is que normal for teachers to say that homosexuals will burn hell, " wrote one 16-year-old om a small town "which isn't even on the map".
"She lls homosexuals – and that means me too – mutants. Homosexualy was only legalised Rsia 1993. A man Volgograd was murred after revealg to iends that he was gay.
Like other gay teenagers here, Maxim Moiseyev grappled wh his inty alone, ightened and unrmed. And a new law that prohibs mors om hearg anythg posive about homosexualy has only ma life, a 16-year-old Mve, is among the few Rsian teenagers who dare to openly intify as gay.
THE FILM PUT DON’T WANT THE WORLD TO SEE: FIREBIRD, A GAY LOVE STORY ABOUT FIGHTER PILOTS
”The search produced a trove of nasts, but amid the homophobic ments, he found fns of gay and lbian. “I prted that out, ” he said, “and thkg about myself, I cid I should be lled gay.
Its prohibn on givg mors gay "propaganda" is so vague that most people assume they n't mentn the word "homosexualy" ont of mors.
WATCH A TEENAGE BOY FD A STACK OF GAY PORN IN ADAM BARAN’S ADORABLE SHORT FILM ‘JACKPOT’
“Homosexualy is a sexual perversn which is unnatural and ntradicts human nature, ” said Duma puty Tatiana Yakovleva, a member of the lg Uned Rsia party. The law is so broad that has been terpreted as prohibg gay pri paras — a mor might see one. Earlier this year, Lena Klimova, a 25-year-old Inter journalist om Yekaterburg, wrote an article about the bate, challengg the assertns that homosexualy is a perversn.
Simochk, who began supportg gay rights when a iend opened his ey to the wispread discrimatn, worri that teachers have been put an impossible suatn.