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RSIAN GAY SLANG
They need more homos on this show!!!! Хочу мальчика, а кругом одни пидарасы…(I want a boy, but all around there’s nothg but fags…)– Heard nightly at Chance, a Mosw gay club.
Currently, there are no words the Rsian language that provi posive or ntral exprsns mon age regardg homosexualy and gays. However, the wake of the relatively recent repeal of the law agast homosexual activy, a new, more open nscns has begun to ph at the lims of language, givg rise to words and exprsns and -optg old on orr to nvey new sensibili. Until 1992, homosexualy was punishable Rsia unr the Crimal Co of the Soviet Unn by up to five years imprisonment.
In addn to the legal sanctns agast homosexual activy, police, the KGB, and rovg gangs of thugs, supported by the unspoken nsent of the public at large, equented gay cisg areas where they threatened, robbed, or even beat gay men and those spected of beg gay. Gay men, if found out, were also nstant danger of blackmail or losg their jobs.