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Contents:

• “PUT GAY DRS UP” MAK A POLIL STATEMENT
• ‘PUT’S GAY DRS-UP’ LETS YOU STICK IT TO VLADIMIR
• A RSIAN COURT RULED YOU CAN’T DEPICT VLADIMIR PUT AS A GAY CLOWN RSIA
• ANNA KENDRICK, PUT'S GAY DRS UP AND THE RETURN OF MARY-LOUISE PARKER
• PUT AS GAY IN? MEM AS A TACTIC RSIAN LGBT+ ACTIVISM
• GAME ALLOWS ERS TO CREATE ‘GAY PUT’, AND PLAY DRS-UP WH HIM
• PUT GAY DRSUP
• PUT GAY DRS UP REPORT
• RSIA BANS IMAG OF PUT LKED TO ‘GAY CLOWN’ MEME
• PROV YOU CAN DRS VLAD UP BUT YOU STILL CAN’T TAKE HIM ANYWHERE
• "PUT GAY DRSUP "A FREE ONLE GAME
• 'THERE WILL BE DAD AND MUM': PUT L OUT RSIA LEGALIZG GAY MARRIAGE

“PUT GAY DRS UP” MAK A POLIL STATEMENT

Sochi mayor Anatoly Pakhomov claims that no gay people live his town (gasp, they do), and Rsian Print Vladimir Put famoly said that gays will be safe as long as they “leave kids alone“. Now you and your iends n help him by playg Put Gay Drs Up, a flash game where you n drs the Rsian a myriad of flatterg outfs, jt to brighten up his personaly a b.

Put Gay Drs Up facilat this by permtg sharg of your bt Put creatns wh the world s gallery, already ntag over 6, 000 photos.

‘PUT’S GAY DRS-UP’ LETS YOU STICK IT TO VLADIMIR

In prott of Rsia’s highly disturbg “anti-gay propaganda” legislatn, one webse has taken the fight for equaly to the mannequs. PGD-U creators “want to make a playful stand agast homosexual discrimatn and legal actns taken unr the regnal anti-LGBT propaganda laws.

A RSIAN COURT RULED YOU CAN’T DEPICT VLADIMIR PUT AS A GAY CLOWN RSIA

Here are some of the bt gentlemen llers on the se’s gallery: You Might Be Interted In Gloria Swanson Put YMCA Put Put, at his woodworkg shop Santa Fe Psy Rt Fangirl Put While there’s some problematic logic behd this mo of prott (a homosexual doll’s wardrobe shouldn’t necsarily nsist of dildos and opera gowns…) – any tractn-gag F-U to a backward state agenda is probably for the bt. The Rsian Jtice Mistry has banned the e of an image pictg Print Vladmir Put wearg make-up, apparently reactg to the photo’s implitn that Print Put might be gay.

IntroductnIn 2016, an image of Print Vladimir Put wearg make-up and superimposed on a gay pri flag was banned Rsia.

ANNA KENDRICK, PUT'S GAY DRS UP AND THE RETURN OF MARY-LOUISE PARKER

Footnote 2 Yet the image has appeared on Rsian social media an apparent crique of both gay rights and Put. The Rsian state and s lears are equently put to nversatn wh homosexualy, but the valence of the disurse shifts by first sectn of this chapter exam the image closer tail, nductg a semtic analysis of how a picture be memetic, able to travel across space and time.

We nsir the subject of the gay clown image self, Footnote 3 Rsian Print Vladimir Put, as a cril space wh the terpretive polysemy of prott.

PUT AS GAY IN? MEM AS A TACTIC RSIAN LGBT+ ACTIVISM

We emphasize that the explic shift om behavr (fg sexual acts between subjects) to performance and imag (pecially those suggtive of Put’s “non-standard sexual orientatn”) recenters the genr bate wh an thorarian range, reifyg homophobic propaganda and jtifyg anti-gay state policy. Poutg Put, Pop Art, and Polil Portras: Symbols and Syntax of a MemeIn this sectn, we explore the emergence of the Put as gay clown meme.

The image buted on social media outsi of Rsia the ntext of foreign reactns to the 2013 Rsian anti-“gay propaganda” law No. Footnote 4, Footnote 5 On Augt 23, 2013, a Getty photographer at a prott outsi the Rsian embassy Madrid photographed a protter wh a sign pictg Put’s face bold make-up superimposed over a rabow flag wh the words “STOP HOMOFOBIA” [sic] scribed on his forehead. Footnote 6 Here, the image appears (sans the scriptn “STOP HOMOFOBIA”) on a poster, above a ptn readg ( Rsian): “Electors of Put are like.

”Footnote 7 While the Mistry of Jtice listg oms “obscene vobulary” om the origal quote, the implitns of the msage’s polil lcul are clear: Put voters are homosexual and Put’s their man.

GAME ALLOWS ERS TO CREATE ‘GAY PUT’, AND PLAY DRS-UP WH HIM

The Put as gay clown meme is an eratn of a dynamic seri of siar mem nveyg polil meang by appropriatg material om other social disurs. Footnote 8 Put’s “Regular Joe” scenar is red as “gay, ” “drag, ” or otherwise flux (Wood 2016, p. Footnote 9 Iteratns of the Put meme which rporate text, such as those wh “STOP HOMOFOBIA” stenciled across Put’s forehead, also ploy a strategy of trangement.

PUT GAY DRSUP

More recently, the image ronat wh strategi such as “queerg the Queen” that have been documented at LGBT+ pri paras the UK; both functn as an example of the ntradictory existence of “shared” and “modifyg” gay inti wh the space of public activism (Ammaturo 2016; Armstrong 2002) such, votn of the pop art athetic ntribut to the subversive qualy of the meme two ways.

”Disurs of Sexualy and Rsian PolicsThis sectn suat the Put as gay clown meme wh a material and symbolic ntext, explorg the way which the meme shifts across the four realms intified Table 9. In Realm II, “Patrtic Homosexualy, ” we explore the possibili of a disurse of patrtic homosexualy bridgg the state and civil society. Fally, we fe Realm IV as “Heteronormative-homophobic Opposn Polics, ” where we explore how opposn to Put enjos the nmnatn of homosexualy public disurse.

We see the meme of Put as a gay clown shift between the last two realms—“Queerg the Ristance” and “Heteronormative-homophobic Opposn Polics”—movg om the material level Wtern protts 2013 to the symbolic level of the viral image, and back to the material/legal level where is banned Rsia I: Homophobia Rsian Polics and the Heteronormative StateIn this sectn, we trace the way which issu of queer inty are prent on material and symbolic levels Rsian polics.

PUT GAY DRS UP REPORT

The stat quo of both Soviet era and Rsian era homosexual polics exist Realm I: “the Heteronormative State. ” This discursive regime is anti-homosexualy and pro-Rsia/pro-Put, as evinced by the 2010 and 2013 “anti-homosexual propaganda” laws and the media disurse surroundg the sexualy of Put and his polil opponents. Here, we fd the strong iologil dictate that homosexualy is damagg to a strong Rsian state, and so should be ntrolled, limed, or elimated.

RSIA BANS IMAG OF PUT LKED TO ‘GAY CLOWN’ MEME

First, we foc on the material levels: the way which the ernment attempts to erase the phenomenon of gayns om public space and the public sphere.

This marks a shift om regulatg the act of (male) gay sex to crimalizg the act and stead regulatg the imagery the public sphere. This battle for ntrol over the material and symbolic productn of gayns public and polil space then replit self the Put meme. This is a send maniftatn of the relatnships Realm I, the heteronormative state: g an attack on homosexualy by proxy orr to disparage polil opponents.

Both imag pict polil opposn women’s cloth, nflatg cross-drsg and beg gay wh emasculizatn and sexual viance. Samsonov’s rponse is tellg—assertg that his sexualy is “normal, ” equatg homosexualy wh viance.

PROV YOU CAN DRS VLAD UP BUT YOU STILL CAN’T TAKE HIM ANYWHERE

Th, he rejects the characterizatn of himself, not the characterizatn of gayns as scenars unrsre the stabily of the discursive regime of sexual cizenship operatg Put’s Rsia.

Romas (2017) not that there are recurrent homosexual and transvte scenars, which “bluntly manipulate the ncepts of masculy and sexual viancy as part of their anti-adversarial rhetoric bee domatn for a patriarchal culture n only be experienced as a form of emasculatn” (p. In this formulatn, Put even mands domance and submissn om his own state, while suatg a transn to outright homophobia, even wh opposn polics, as fed by Realm II: The (Mostly Foreclosed?

"PUT GAY DRSUP "A FREE ONLE GAME

As homophobia tensifi, the possibily of anizg a movement which po patrtic homosexualy the ntext of supportg mocratic reform, civil rights, or a transn away om Put’s be foreclosed. However, the unstable nature of homosexualy Rsian disurse plit the terpretatn of the state’s rponse to the Put as gay clown imagery.

For example, Alexandr Dug, a proponent of Neo-Eurasianism and fascist thought, is ntroversially creded wh statg that Rsia has ma a mistake by refg to “accept, rporate, and velop a homosexual disurse of patrtic homosexualy by juxtaposg to European ‘sodomy’” (Romas 2017). Footnote 10 While far om the Rsian learship’s stance, is also an versn of Gorky’s maxim: “elimate homosexualy and you will make fascism disappear” (Essig 1999). We need only to accept a ntortn of the prent regime of sexual cizenship by embracg Dug’s “patrtic homosexualy” to oculate Rsia agast the existential threat of “European sodomy” and s attendant human rights-based disurse.

Petersburg, which simultaneoly celebrated the Internatnal Day Agast Homophobia while llg natnal and global attentn to claims of LGBT+ persecutn and torture Chechnya (“Gay rights activists hold flash-mob prott St. Such ristance strategi also ll to qutn the nstctn of time and dividual agency wh the iologil practic of social IV: Heteronormative-Homophobic Opposn PolicsAmid the Rsian media’s buildup to the 2012 printial electns, opposn ndidat began explog media foc on sexualy by directly attackg Put’s masculy and virily. 112) sectn illtrat that the imagery of homosexualy as a means of disparagg Put did not e out of nowhere.

'THERE WILL BE DAD AND MUM': PUT L OUT RSIA LEGALIZG GAY MARRIAGE

It reflects a polil and discursive climate where polil actors on both the left and the right of Put mobilize homophobic disurs as a tool to legimatize opponents. Both the possibily of a viable opposn party, and th of a vibrant state that embrac LGBT+ rights, is muted by homophobia disurs and attendant ictn wh the liberal, anti-Put opposn.

The disurse of imagery and the parameters of s power are by and large factors of an thorarian state enlistg hegemonic masculy and homophobia to perform discursive and, some s, physil vlence agast Before a Fall: Material Conttatns of LGBT+ Activism Public SpaceIn this sectn, we adopt a ntent polics perspective, analyzg the terplay between the var realms sketched above.