Cisg past: photographer Yevgeniy Fiks rurrects Mosw’s fotten gay history — New East Digal Archive

Contents:

• GAY CISG MOSW (CY)
• CISG PAST: PHOTOGRAPHER YEVGENIY FIKS RURRECTS MOSW’S FOTTEN GAY HISTORY
• THE 5 BEST MOSW GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS MOSW
• GAY THE USSR
• MOSW: GAY MOSW
• GAY AND GAY-IENDLY HOTELS ISTANBUL

GAY CISG MOSW (CY)

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CISG PAST: PHOTOGRAPHER YEVGENIY FIKS RURRECTS MOSW’S FOTTEN GAY HISTORY

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MOSW: GAY MOSW

The Bolsheviks legalised homosexualy soon after seizg power 1917, at the same time as tablishg equal rights for women. And, although homosexualy was banned the Thirti as part of Stalist retrenchment, the Soviet landspe did acmodate spac of social dissent and revolutn which gay men uld exprs their sexualy together.

The spac — the cy’s hidn topography of gay life — have recently been brought to light the work of New York-based Rsian photographer Yevgeniy Fiks. Fiks’s photographs seem to distance the thor om Soviet, and specifilly, Stalist, tim, and to reclaim the public space for a different versn of history (not one much promoted official versns of the Soviet past) and to reclaim homosexualy om today’s horrifilly homophobic climate.

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GAY AND GAY-IENDLY HOTELS ISTANBUL

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If homosexualy had been banned Soviet Rsia, anti-munist liberals would have a perfect argument, lkg homophobia and the Soviet past; but wasn’t, or at least not ially. More central to ntemporary arguments around gay rights are Stal’s reprsns. In fact some mentators argue that the current disput aren’t strictly between homosexuals and heterosexuals, but are rather products of a nflict between two different versns of homosexualy — “Soviet” and “Wtern.

” After Stal banned the mid-Thirti — a letter of prott wrten to the Soviet lear by openly gay Brish munist Harry Whyte is clud Fiks’s book — disurs around homosexualy Rsia beme eply tertwed wh the practice of male-only sex, on a huge sle, the gulag. The nsequent taboo attached to homosexual inti prevents them om beg seen as somethg “natural” Rsia. Unlike the rtrictns Stal placed on women’s rights, the ban on homosexualy was not repealed unr Khshchev and had to wa until 1993 to be overturned.