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CRIMEA'S GAY COMMUNY MOV OUT AS RSIAN HOMOPHOBIA SETS IN
Yegor Gkov and Bogdan Zchenko, who owned a gay bar Sevastopol, feared for their bs — and their fay * bogdan gay *
Moviefone is reportg that David Thewlis claimed he played Lup as gay the Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban movie acrdance wh directn om the film’s director, Alfonso Cuarón. Thewlis revealed that director Alfonso Cuarón gave him a b of advice which was to play the character as a ‘gay junkie.
Rowlg revealed that Dumbledore was gay and seems to be an anecdote that Thewlis lik to reveal here and there.
(Although marryg a shaphifter don’t exactly preclu homosexualy or bisexualy on the part of the character, Rowlg also explicly rmed the actor later that she didn’t create Lup wh a queer sexualy md. The “Lup is gay/no he’s not” story seems to e up om time to time, much like burgeong urban legend-type stori regardg blons or redheads beg “extct” a generatn’s time.
BOGDAN_GAY
For the gay muny Crimea, the most worryg piece of legislatn was the Rsian ban on “homosexual propaganda, ” which Put signed 2012.
Although the law is billed as an effort to protect Rsian children om learng about “non-tradnal sexual relatnships, ” s crics say the law enurag homophobia, signalg to Rsians that gays are somehow ferr and should not be allowed to sist on their equaly public.
The head of the regnal ernment, Sergei Aksyonov, said that the Wt’s liberal attu toward gay rights would be “tolerable and unacceptable” on his pensula durg a meetg wh his misters last month.
BOGDAN_GAY
“In Crimea we don’t wele such people, we don’t need them, ” he said, referrg to homosexuals.
Through their patrons om Cy Hall, the bar’s owners learned that “someone had whispered to the new learship that they have a gay bar stg right unrneath them, ” says Gkov. Not only are the pair among the most open of Sevastopol’s chronilly closeted gays, but Gkov and Zchenko have a two-year-old son, Timur, om a surrogate mother. But the regn’s gay men and women have also been movg away, as much out of prott at the annexatn as out of a fear of beg the targets of a state-backed mpaign of homophobia.
“When beme clear that Rsia needs to prepare for isolatn om Europe, need to smear the Europeans somehow, and the simplt is to spread this ia of perverted, nt Gayropeans, ” he says, g the rogatory term for Europeans—”Gayropeytsy”—that has entered the Rsian vernacular. ” As they make their new home the pal, they’re thkg of openg up a new Qbar, which will have to al wh a lot more petn Kiev’s vibrant gay scene.