The Cambridge History of Gay and Lbian Lerature - November 2014
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23 - RSIAN GAY AND LBIAN LERATURE
* russian gay literature *
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”Ira Rolduga, a historian of queer history Rsia and a postdoctoral fellow at the Universy of Ptsburgh, said that Put offers Rsians a false versn of history where gay people never had a place Rsia. Petersburg who left Rsia after his parents threatened to sue his therapist who backed him receivg hormone therapy; and Ivan, 18, who is gay, half Rsian and half Ukraian, and “didn’t want to kill people.
LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
“My parents are very nservative and they don’t believe gay people should exist, ” said Max, who didn’t disclose his last name for fear of retaliatn agast his parents who live St. Although is not illegal to be an LGBTQ+ person Rsia, a ago the Kreml passed a so-lled “gay propaganda law” banng the distributn of rmatn about gay relatnships among mors. In other words, where Bud Light has buckled unr prsure as bigotry grows agast the LGBTQ+ muny, Gay Water’s creator Spencer Hodson wants his new boozy brand to be the anthis of that.
“The key issue that Bud Light tapped to was the fact that they didn’t unrstand their re dience and know enough about them,” Hodson, a gay man, told CNN about the ntroversy that began when the Anhser-Bch beer brand sent fluencer Dylan Mulvaney a n of beer.