Was Tchaikovsky gay? How Rsia spent a century hidg the poser's sexualy | PkNews

Contents:

• TCHAIKOVSKY WAS NOT GAY, SAYS RSIAN CULTURE MISTER
• TCHAIKOVSKY AND THE SECRET GAY LOV CENSORS TRIED TO HI
• SORRY, RSIA, BUT TCHAIKOVSKY WAS DEFELY GAY
• TCHAIKOVSKY NOT GAY? HERE'S SOME MORE MIL SHOCKS FOR YOU
• 'TCHAIKOVSKY WAS NOT GAY', INSISTS RSIAN CULTURE MISTER VLADIMIR MEDSKY (BUT PUT SAYS HE WAS)
• WAS TCHAIKOVSKY GAY? HOW RSIA SPENT A CENTURY HIDG THE POSER’S SEXUALY

TCHAIKOVSKY WAS NOT GAY, SAYS RSIAN CULTURE MISTER

Rsia's culture mister has nied that poser Peter Tchaikovsky was gay, disrdg what has long been regard as historil fact. The script was apparently revised to remove referenc that uld have ma vulnerable unr Rsia's ntroversial new "gay propaganda" film's screenwrer, Yuri Arabov, nied that Tchaikovsky was gay, and told the newspaper Izvtiya that the poser of Swan Lake and Sleepg Bety was "a person whout a fay who was stuck wh the opn that he supposedly lov men". "Arabov is actually right – there is no evince that Tchaikovsky was a homosexual, " said Medsky, when asked by the Interfax news agency if the climate of homophobia Rsia was forcg film-makers to censor the issue.

"In the se of Tchaikovsky his homosexualy is so well documented by his own wrgs and the wrgs of others that is simply ludicro to suggt otherwise, " said the thor Konstant Rotikov, who has wrten a history of gay Sat Petersburg.

"Rsia's parliament this summer passed a law that outlaws "gay propaganda" among mors. Essentially, means any posive portrayal of homosexualy, or any claim that gay relatns and straight relatns are equally valid, is illegal.

TCHAIKOVSKY AND THE SECRET GAY LOV CENSORS TRIED TO HI

"Suggtg he was not gay is siar to suggtg he wasn't a good poser, " said Rotikov. "The Rsian print, Vladimir Put, nced that Tchaikovsky was probably gay a recent terview.

"They say that Tchaikovsky was a homosexual, " said Put, rebuttg claims that Rsia's new laws are homophobic.

SORRY, RSIA, BUT TCHAIKOVSKY WAS DEFELY GAY

But until now some of the letters of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, which he tells of his sexual sir, have been hidn om the world bee the objects of those sir were other the letters have been published English for the first time, rtorg sensive passag about the poser’s homosexualy that had been leted by Rsian one, never before published Rsian or English, Tchaikovsky wrote of a young servant “wh whom I am more love than ever”, addg: “My God, what an angelic creature and how I long to be his slave, his playthg, his property! ” She add that, while Tchaikovsky’s homosexualy had long been accepted the wt, “ is still a subject of heated and often ugly public bate” Rsia.

”Tchaiikovsky quoteIn another prevly omted passage, the poser told of a homosexual acquatance: “Petashenka ed to drop by wh the crimal tentn of observg the Cat Corps, which is right oppose our wdows, but I’ve been tryg to disurage the promisg viss – and wh some succs.

TCHAIKOVSKY NOT GAY? HERE'S SOME MORE MIL SHOCKS FOR YOU

They offer sights to the daily ncerns and timate thoughts of a poser whose masterpiec clu the ballets Swan Lake, The Sleepg Bety and The Nutcracker, and opera Eugene Oneg, as well as six symphoni and four book’s troductn not: “The central taboo ncerng Tchaikovsky’s life has been his homosexualy – the topic that has been barred om public discsn for almost a century … In the eye of the thori, would have been unthkable to accept [that] … Rsia’s natnal treasure was a homosexual.

And, nsirg the sorry state of cultural polics Rsia and s anti-gay propaganda, there is no guarantee that that door will rema open much longer. Historians don't doubt that Pyotr Tchaikovsky was gay, but an upg bpic filmed his native untry will. Historians don't doubt that Peter Tchaikovsky was gay, but an upg bpic filmed his native untry will.

'TCHAIKOVSKY WAS NOT GAY', INSISTS RSIAN CULTURE MISTER VLADIMIR MEDSKY (BUT PUT SAYS HE WAS)

Yuri Arabov told a Rsian newspaper that his adaptatn of the 19th century poser's life won't foc on his sexualy bee “ is far om a fact that Tchaikovsky was a homosexual, " The New York Tim also said that films that "advertise" homosexualy are "outsi the sphere of art, " and that only "philist" thk the poser was gay.

In light of Rsia's recent anti-gay legislatn, this uld be seen as another effort to erase the untry's gay history. Well, sorry Rsia, but Tchaikovsky — along wh dozens of other Rsian cultural ins — were gay, as many scholars would readily Tchaikovsky (poser)Tchaikovsky posed two of the most qutsentially Rsian ballets — Swan Lake and The Nutcracker. Harry wr (emphasis add): The history of Tchaikovsky's homosexualy was supprsed Rsia by the Soviets, and has only recently bee wily known post-Soviet Rsia.

WAS TCHAIKOVSKY GAY? HOW RSIA SPENT A CENTURY HIDG THE POSER’S SEXUALY

Tchaikovsky's letters and diari, as well as the letters of his brother Most, who was also gay, make clear his orientatn. ] Many of Tchaikovsky's most timate relatnships were homosexual: Tchaikovsky's servant Aleksey Soonov and his nephew, Vladimir “Bob” Davydov.