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• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY
• SIX GAY NDIDAT ARE NNG CONNECTICUT — AS REPUBLINS
• SURPRISE! ABC FAY AND FOX ARE THE GAYT NETWORKS ON TV MUST GAY TVTHE WORKS WH THE MOST LGBT ARE ABC FAY AND FOX—ONCE NSIRED THE MOST NSERVATIVE CHANNELS ON TELEVISN. HERE'S HOW THEY BEME OUT AND PROUD. CAROLE LTONUPDATED JUL. 11, 2017 6:17PM EDT / PUBLISHED NOV. 07, 2013 5:45AM EST THE DAILY BEASTIT’S 9 P.M. ON WHAT TELEVISN CHANNEL IS YOUR TEEN MOST LIKELY TO SEE A GAY CHARACTER? IT’S NOT THE ONCE-SUBVERSIVE MTV. OR NBC, ONCE THE HOME OF FRIENDS AND WILL AND GRACE. IT’S ABC FAY AND FOX, THE WORKS LNCHED BY NSERVATIV, WHO HAVE THE MOST GAY AND LBIAN CHARACTERS ON BLE AND BROADST, RPECTIVELY. WHAT’S MORE, GLAAD SPECIFILLY CED ONE OF ABC FAY’S SIGNATURE SHOWS, THE FOSTERS, AS AN EXAMPLE OF THE DIRECTN THAT WORKS SHOULD FOLLOW. “IT’S IMPORTANT TO THAT THE SHOW REFLECT THE WORLD,” SAYS PETER PAIGE, ONE OF THE EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS AND HEAD WRERS ON THE FOSTERS.GLAAD’S NETWORK RPONSIBILY INX (NRI) EVALUAT THE “QUANTY AND QUALY OF IMAG OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR (LGBT) PEOPLE ON TELEVISN.” IN THE 2012-13 TELEVISN SEASON, 42 PERCENT OF ALL PRIMETIME BROADSTG HOURS ON FOX HAD LGBT CHARACTERS (SO ’S NOT JT GLEE), 33 PERCENT OF THE HOURS ON ABC HAD LGBT CHARACTERS, 29 PERCENT ON NBC, 28 PERCENT ON THE CW, AND JT 14 PERCENT ON CBS. ON BLE, ABC FAY CLOCKED 50 PERCENT OF S PRIMETIME HOURS WH LGBT CHARACTERS, FOLLOWED BY FX WH 40 PERCENT, SHOWTIME WH 31 PERCENT, MTV WH 28 PERCENT, TLC WH 27 PERCENT, HBO WH 26 PERCENT, USA 20 PERCENT, TNT 17 PERCENT, TBS 10 PERCENT, AND THE HISTORY CHANNEL G AD LAST, WH ZERO PERCENT. GLAAD ASSOCIATED DIRECTOR OF ENTERTAMENT MEDIA MATT KANE SAYS THEY WERE “SURPRISED” TO SEE FOX DO SO WELL, ALTHOUGH THE WORK IS FAMO FOR GLEE, ONE OF THE MOST DIVERSE AND GAY-IENDLY SHOWS ON TELEVISN.MTV WAS THE FIRST BLE WORK TO EVER RECEIVE AN “EXCELLENT” SRE, WH S GROUNDBREAKG SHOWS THE REAL WORLD, TE LIFE, AND SKS. GLAAD PRAISED THE WORK FOR BEG “RELIABLY CLIVE” 2012-13, BUT DID MENTN THAT THE NUMBER OF LBGT CHARACTERS HAVE SCE CLED. ABC FAY, MEANWHILE, RECEIVED THE SEND-EVER “EXCELLENT” SRE OM GLAAD 2011 (FOR THE RERD, ABC FAY ONLY RECEIVED A “GOOD” SRE THE 2012 REPORT). KANE SAYS THE ABC FAY HAS TRANSFORMED “NSIRG WHERE THEY ME OM—ALTHOUGH THAT WAS A VERY, VERY LONG TIME AGO THAT THE WORK HAD A NSERVATIVE BENT AND SIMPLY ISN’T THAT WORK ANY SHAPE OR FORM.”PAT ROBERTSON STARTED ABC FAY AS THE CBN SATELLE SERVICE 1977 TO FOC ON RELIG PROGRAMMG. IN 1990, HE SPUN THE HUGELY PROFABLE CHANNEL OFF TO THE INTERNATNAL FAY ENTERTAMENT INC., WH THE NEWLY-NAMED “FAY CHANNEL” BEG THE PRCIPLE PROPERTY. THE PANY WENT PUBLIC 1992, AND THEN WAS SOLD TO FOX KIDS WORLDWI 1997 FOR $1.9 BILLN. CBN RECEIVED $136.1 LN OM THE SALE, WH ROBERTSON PERSONALLY RECEIVG AN TIMATED $19 LN, ACRDG TO CHRISTIANY TODAY. ONE OF THE VEATS OF THE AL, ASI OM KEEPG “FAY” THE NAME, WAS THAT ROBERTSON’S SIGNATURE PROGRAM, THE 700 CLUB, WOULD NTUE TO AIR TWICE A DAY ON THE WORK. IN 2001, FOX SOLD THE CHANNEL TO DISNEY, WHERE WAS RENAMED ABC FAY.TODAY, ABC FAY IS NOT AFFILIATED WH CBN EXCEPT FOR THE 700 CLUB, AND THE WORK AIRS A DISCLAIMER PRR TO THE BROADST THAT SAYS DO NOT ENDORSE THE VIEWS STATED ON THE SHOW. MEANWHILE, 2006, THE WORK REBRAND SELF WH THE TAGLE “A NEW KD OF FAY.”“WE WANTED TO REPRENT FAY A NTEMPORARY AND THENTIC WAY, BUT WE ALSO DIDN’T WANT TO N AWAY OM THE WORD FAY,” SAYS KATE JUERGENS, ABC FAY’S CHIEF CREATIVE OFFICER AND EXECUTIVE VICE PRINT FOR ORIGAL PROGRAMMG AND DEVELOPMENT. “I THK [SEXUALY] WILL ALWAYS BE A PART OF OUR PROGRAMMG—I DON’T SEE GOG AWAY OM .”ENTER THE MORN ERA OF ABC FAY. ONE OF S SIGNATURE SHOWS, THE SECRET LIFE OF THE AMERIN TEENAGER, HAS THREE GAY CHARACTERS (AND A GUT SPOT BY CHAZ BONO), SWCHED AT BIRTH FEATUR A LBIAN CHARACTER, AND THE BREAKOUT H PRETTY LTLE LIARS HAS A MA CHARACTER, EY, WHO IS A LBIAN. PRETTY LTLE LIARS CREATOR MARLENE KG SAYS THAT WHEN ABC FAY APPROACHED HER TO ADAPT THE BOOK SERI TO A SHOW, SHE ASKED IF THE WORK WAS FORTABLE WH A CENTRAL CHARACTER BEG A LBIAN. WHAT’S MORE, KG DIDN’T WANT EY’S SEXUALY BE SOMETHG THAT F HER. “SHE JT SO HAPPENED TO BE GAY,” KG SAYS. BEG GAY IS “PART OF WHO SHE IS, BUT DON’T FE HER AND ’S NOT 100 PERCENT A PART OF WHO SHE IS.”THE FOSTERS, WHICH PREMIERED JUNE 2013, TELLS THE STORY OF A LBIAN UPLE RAISG SEVERAL CHILDREN, CLUDG THE BLOGIL SON OF ONE OF THE WOMEN AND SEVERAL ADOPTED AND FOSTER CHILDREN. GLAAD’S KANE LLS THE FOSTERS “A GREAT EXAMPLE OF A SHOW THAT HAS VERY DIVERSE CHARACTERS TERMS OF THEIR BACKGROUNDS AND THEIR ETHNICY.” IN FACT, THE SEASON FALE (SPOILERS), WHICH WAS FILMED JT DAYS AFTER THE DEFENSE OF MARRIAGE ACT WAS STCK DOWN, FEATURED THE WEDDG OF MA CHARACTERS LENA AND STEF.“BY FAR, WE WERE THE FIRST POST-DOMA LGBT WEDDG ON TELEVISN,” PAIGE SAYS. IN FACT, THE SCRIPT THE WEDDG SPEECH WAS LEFT WH ELLIPS TO CLU THE SUPREME COURT’S CISN. BIS BOTH HAVG NSERVATIVE ROOTS, ABC FAY AND WORK TELEVISN LEAR FOX ARE TARGETG LENNIALS (AND YOUNGER)—A MOGRAPHIC THAT IS MORE LIKELY TO SUPPORT GAY RIGHTS THAN OLR GENERATNS. AMONG YOUNG ADULTS AGED 18-32 (LENNIALS), 70 PERCENT SUPPORT SAME-SEX MARRIAGE, ACRDG TO A MARCH PEW REARCH POLL. THE GENERATN AFTER LENNIALS, THE TEEN DIENCE THAT ABC FAY URTS, IS LIKELY TO BE EVEN MORE SUPPORTIVE OF LGBT RIGHTS.“THE TEEN DIENCE HAS EMBRACED THIS SHOW AND THIS FAY TO SUCH A GREE THAT THEY’RE CELEBRATG ,” PAIGE SAYS. “THEY DON’T SEE , AND THEY’RE NOT WATCHG THE SHOW THE WAY PEOPLE OF MY GENERATN ARE, WHERE THEY’RE LIKE ‘HOLY SMOK, I N’T BELIEVE THIS IS ON TV.’ THEY’RE GOG, ‘OH YEAH, THAT’S LIKE MY IEND JIM, WHO'S GOT TWO MOMS. OR MY IEND BILL, WHO'S GOT TWO MOMS.’ IT’S JT A PART OF THE WORLD THEY LIVE , AND I THK THAT’S SUCH A BETIFUL, BETIFUL THG.”BUT THERE’S A FLIPSI TO THAT: AMONG THE BABY BOOMERS, ONLY 38 PERCENT SUPPORT SAME-SEX MARRIAGE, ACRDG TO THE SAME PEW POLL. MORE THAN 70 PERCENT OF REPUBLINS, MEANWHILE, ARE OPPOSED TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE, ACRDG TO A JUNE PEW POLL. THAT ULD HELP EXPLA THE HISTORY CHANNEL HAVG ZERO GAY CHARACTERS. VIEWERS OF THE HISTORY CHANNEL TEND TO LEAN REPUBLIN, ACRDG TO A 2012 REPORT BY YOUGOV BRAND INX, AS WELL AS TEND TO BE OLR, WH 39 PERCENT OF THE WORKS DIENCE BEG OVER 55 AND THE AVERAGE AGE OF S VIEWERS IS 49.4 YEARS, ACRDG TO NATNAL TV SPOTS.WHEN ASKED FOR MENT, THE HISTORY CHANNEL SENT A STATEMENT SAYG THAT THE MAJORY OF S NTENT IS “HISTORIL NATURE, AND PRIMARILY FEATUR PROGRAMMG THE HISTORY-BASED REALY GENRE. ADDNALLY, WE HAVE VERY LIMED SCRIPTED PROGRAMS, AND WHAT WE DO HAVE, IS HISTORILLY-BASED, SUCH AS VIKGS AND HATFIELDS & MCCOYS. BEE OF THE NATURE OF OUR PROGRAMMG, AS A WORK, WE FEEL IS APPROPRIATE AND SENSIVE TO ASK ANY OF OUR CHARACTERS ABOUT THEIR SEXUALY (AND SEXUAL PREFERENCE).”IN THE MEANTIME, KANE REMAS OPTIMISTIC THAT THE HISTORY CHANNEL AND OTHER WORKS WH LOW REPRENTATN OF GAY AND LBIAN CHARACTERS WILL PROGRS MORE TOWARD CLN. FOR EXAMPLE, KANE, SAYS, TRANSGENR PEOPLE WERE ONCE “NEARLY VISIBLE” ON WORKS, AND NOW GLEE HAS MA UNIQUE A RECURRG CHARACTER, NETFLIX’S ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK HAS A TRANS CHARACTER, AND THE FOSTERS IS ADDG A TRANS CHARACTER NEXT SEASON.“THERE’S A LOT OF REALLY GREAT ORIGAL STORI OUT THERE TO TELL ABOUT LGBT PEOPLE THAT YOU’RE NOT GOG TO GET SIMPLY BY PUTTG ANOTHER GAY WHE MAN ON TELEVISN,” KANE SAYS. CAROLE LTON
• WHAT 'S LIKE BEG AMERI'S FIRST OPENLY GAY ERNOR
• WHY THERE ARE FEW OPENLY GAY ATHLET IN MEN'S PROFSNAL SPORTS
• A RSIAN REALY TV SHOW LLED 'I'M NOT GAY' MAK 8 NTTANTS GUS WHICH IS GAY — AND 'S HOSTED BY A RIGHT-WG POLICIAN
• MEET ANTON KRASOVSKY, THE GAY MAN RUNNG FOR MAYOR OF MOSWBRAVEANTON KRASOVSKY STANDS ALONE: THE ONLY OUT LGBTQ PERSON WILLG TO STAND FOR ELECTN RSIA. THAT’S IF THE THORI ALLOW HIM TO N FOR MAYOR OF MOSW THIS SEPTEMBER.ANNA NEMTSOVAUPDATED JUN. 29, 2018 12:01PM EDT VALERY SHARIFUL/GETTYMOSCOW—ANTON KRASOVSKY’S MOUTH IS FULL OF SWEAR WORDS. HE IS ANGRY WH PRETTY MUCH EVERY LIAR AND PROPAGANDIST MOSW, THE CY HE LOV AND WANTS TO CHANGE. AT TIM SEEMS THAT HIS URAGE WOULD DISAPPEAR THE MOMENT HE STOPS CURSG. AND URAGE IS WHAT HE NEEDS MOST RIGHT NOW, AS KRASOVSKY IS THE ONLY OPENLY GAY PERSON THE UNTRY OF RSIA—WH A POPULATN OF MORE THAN 140 LN—WHO DAR TO PETE THE KREML-NTROLLED ELECTN PROCS.THE MAJORY OF RSIAN POLICIANS AND BURECRATS AGREE THAT LGBTQ PEOPLE ARE ABNORMAL. JT THE IA OF BEG ONE SGLE WARRR THE POLIL FIELD SOAKED HATE AND THRIVG HOMOPHOBIA WOULD SRE MANY AWAY OM THE ARENA. LAST MONTH, SPEAKG ON PENNT RAD STATN ECHO OF MOSW, KRASOVSKY REVEALED THE NEWS: SEPTEMBER HE WOULD N FOR MAYORAL ELECTN MOSW, IF THE THORI ALLOW HIM TO. (HE IS REGISTERED AS A NDIDATE BUT TO ACTUALLY TAKE PART THE ELECTN HE WILL HAVE TO LLECT SIGNATUR OF 110 MUNICIPAL PUTI BEFORE JULY 3.) “I ALMOST PISSED MY PANTS WHEN I CID TO N FOR MOSW MAYOR,” KRASOVSKY ADMTED TO THE DAILY BEAST A RECENT S-DOWN TERVIEW ONE OF MOSW’S HIP FFEE SHOPS, COFFEEMANIA. HERE, MOSW’S OLD TOWN KAI GOROD, MANY REGNIZED KRASOVSKY’S FACE.FIVE YEARS AGO, JUNE, 2013, 436 RSIAN MPS VOTED FAVOR OF A NEW BILL TO BAN “PROPAGANDA OF NON-TRADNAL SEXUAL RELATNS” AMONG MORS. THE BILL FORBA BOTH DIVIDUALS AND MEDIA GROUPS TO DISTRIBUTE LERATURE OR ANY OTHER MATERIALS ABOUT GAY RIGHTS. MANY LGBTQ FAI FLED THE UNTRY FEAR OF THE STATE TAKG THEIR CHILDREN AWAY OM THEM.SCE THEN, PRINT PUT HAS BEEN CRICIZED FOR NOT DOG ENOUGH TO HELP THE GAY MEN KILLED AND PERSECUTED A VIC CRACKDOWN CHECHNYA. THE NOTED BRISH LGBT ACTIVIST PETER TATCHELL PROTTED PRECISELY THIS AT THE BEGNG OF THE WORLD CUP, WHERE THE HOMOPHOBIA AND ANTI-LGBT POLICS OF RSIA HAS AGA E UNR THE TERNATNAL SPOTLIGHT.ABOUT WHY HE MOUNTED THE PROTT, TATCHELL TOLD THE DAILY BEAST AT THE TIME, “IT’S TREMENDOLY IMPORTANT THAT PRINT PUT DON’T SRE AN UNCHALLENGED PUBLIC RELATNS UP WH THE WORLD CUP. HE NEEDS TO BE LLED OUT OVER THE PERSECUTN OF LGBT+ PEOPLE, HIS SUPPRSN OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS OF RSIAN CIZENS, AND HIS WAR CRIM SYRIA.”THE DAILY BEAST ASKED KRASOVSKY WHY HE HAD GONE TO POLICS, WHEN MANY RSIAN GAY MEN AND WOMEN WERE FLEEG THE UNTRY. “BEE EVERYTHG SUCKS HERE,” KRASOVSKY SAID. HE WAS NVCED THAT, EVEN IF THE KREML DID NOT ALLOW HIS PARTICIPATN THE ELECTN, THE EXPERIENCE WOULD BE EFUL FOR HIS POLIL REER.IN THE PAST FEW YEARS KRASOVSKY HAS MANAGED ELECTN MPAIGNS FOR TWO OPPOSN NDIDAT, BILLNAIRE MIKHAIL PROKHOROV’S AND A POP SOCIALE KSENIA SOBCHAK.THE IA OF RIDG A BLACK R OR SHAKG HANDS WH PRINT PUT’S IENDS SOUND RATHER HUMORO TO THE NEW NDIDATE KRASOVSKY, A FORMER RSIAN VOGUE MAGAZE RRPONNT. “SOMEBODY LIKE CHECHEN LEAR RAMZAN KADYROV WOULD NOT SHAKE MY HAND; BUT IF HE WANTS TO SHAKE A HAND OF GAY, I WILL SHAKE HIS HAND BACK.”IN RSIA OFFICIALS ARE NOT SHY ABOUT THEIR HOMOPHOBIC VIEWS. THERE IS A SIGN ON THE DOOR TO THE OFFICE OF MP VALY MILONOV, AT STATE DUMA, THE LOWER HOE OF RSIAN PARLIAMENT: “BANNED ENTRY FOR SODOM.” MILONOV IS ONE OF MASTERMDS BEHD THE ANTI-GAY “PROPAGANDA” BILL— 2016 HE CLAIMED THAT GAY PEOPLE “RAPE KIDS.”FOR YEARS, RSIA'S SMALL MUNY OF LGBTQ ACTIVISTS HAVE ENDURED HARASSMENT OM VLENT NATNALISTS AND POLICE. MOST RSIAN GAY PEOPLE HAVE GIVEN UP THE STGGLE FOR THEIR RIGHTS—THEY EHER PLAN TO PE OR PREFER TO LIVE QUIETLY THEIR SMALL CIRCL.WHEN MANY OF HIS IENDS IMMIGRATED, KRASOVSKY PREFERRED TO STAY RSIA, ALTHOUGH WH HIS LONG EXPERIENCE OF WORKG AS A MAGAZE WRER AND A TV PRENTER HE MIGHT BE ABLE TO FD A GOOD PLACE FOR HIMSELF NEW YORK OR ANY EUROPEAN PAL. THERE HAVE BEEN WORSE TIM HIS LIFE, HE SAID, WHICH LEFT HIM AMONG VERY FEW SURVIVORS. “I THK ABOUT 90 PERCENT OF MY IENDS OM MOSW BOHEMIA CIRCL HAVE KILLED THEMSELV BY ALHOL AND DGS AND THE RT HAVE BUILT THEMSELV TO THE CURRENT STATE SYSTEM. IT IS A MIRACLE THAT I DID NOT DRK MYSELF TO ATH,” HE ADMTED TO THE DAILY BEAST.THIS IS NOT THE FIRST TIME KRASOVSKY HAS SHOWN HIS URAGE RSIA. DURG HIS G OUT ON THE INTER KONTR TV 2013 KRASOVSKY SAID: “I AM GAY BUT I AM JT AS HUMAN AS PUT.” LAST YEAR, AN TERVIEW PUBLISHED ON FACEBOOK, KRASOVSKY ADMTED THAT HE HAD BEEN LIVG WH HIV SCE 2011. AS A VOLUNTEER AND ACTIVIST, KRASOVSKY AND HIS IENDS HAVE BEEN PHG THORI FOR TAKG MEASUR, LEGALIZG METHADONE TREATMENT, FOR FIGHTG HIV/AIDS EPIMIC RSIA.ALTHOUGH THE KREML HAS SANCTNED HOMOPHOBIA THROUGHOUT THE UNTRY, KRASOVSKY SISTS THAT ORDARY PEOPLE DO NOT HATE LGBTQ PEOPLE. “IT IS AN ILLN THAT RSIA IS A HOMOPHOBIC UNTRY BY S NATURE,” KRASOVSKY SISTED TO THE DAILY BEAST. HE SOUND IRRATED, WHEN HE SPOKE ABOUT STEREOTYP CREATED BY MEDIA. “MY HOMOSEXUALY HAS NEVER HELPED ME BUT HAS NEVER BEEN THE WAY OF MY REER GOALS. IF PEOPLE ARE NSTANTLY TOLD THAT QUEERS ARE BASTARDS, AND TO BEAT THEM BEE ALL THEY WANT IS TO WALK THE STREETS NAKED, SOME GO AND DO BEAT UP LGBT PEOPLE.”DURG THE PAST MONTH KRASOVSKY HAS BEEN HOLDG DAILY PUBLIC MEETGS WH HIS ELECTORATE DIFFERENT DISTRICTS OF MOSW. “PEOPLE DO NOT RE IF YOU ARE HOMOSEXUAL OR NOT, NOR IS ANYBODY TERTED YOUR HIV OR ANY OTHER HEALTH PROBLEMS; PEOPLE WANT TO TALK WH ME ABOUT THE CY MOLISHG HO THEIR DISTRICT, OF MUNAL SERVIC FAILG, AND OF SOME ILLEGAL NSTCTN S OR SCHOOLS CLOSG DOWN THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD.” WHEN KRASOVSKY WAS YOUNG HIS FAY LIVED TY ROOMS AND MUNAL APARTMENTS FOR MOST OF HIS CHILDHOOD. HE WAS BORN ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF MOSW THE PROVCIAL TOWN OF PODOLSK (WHICH HAS A POPULATN OF 302,831) WHERE KRASOVSKY WENT TO SCHOOL. HE NTUED HIS STUDI UKRAE, THE TOWN OF RIVNE, WHERE HIS ENGEER FATHER WORKED AT RIVNE NUCLEAR POWER PLANT. “WHEN I TURNED 14, I MOVED TO MOSW AND DISVERED THE LIFE OF UNRGROUND BOHEMIA—MANY OF MY IENDS WERE G E AT THE TIME.”DURG THE PERTROIKA YEARS THE LATE 1980 KRASOVSKY BELONGED TO UNTERCULTURE CIRCL OF SOVIET HIPSTERS, LLG THEMSELV “STILYAGI.” “WE WERE ALL LISTENG TO ELVIS PRLEY, WENT TO VIKTOR TSOI’S NCERTS. I DRSED UP SEND HAND CLOTH OM THSKY MARKET. I HAD SOME HELLISH WHE JACKET AT SOME POT. LOOK, I WAS NEVER RICH, I NEVER HAD ENOUGH MONEY TO BUY EXPENSIVE CLOTH.”KRASOVSKY’S IENDS MET ON THURSDAYS AT AN UNRGROUND CLUB LLED MOLOKO. KRASOVSKY STUDIED MAXIM GORKY LERATURE INSTUTE, THE TRAG GROUND FOR RSIAN POETS. HIS PANY OF HIP LOOKG YOUTH MGLED WH A QUEEN OF SOVIET AND POST-SOVIET ROCK AND ROLL, ZHANNA AGUZAROVA. IF, AS HE SAYS, SOME OF KRASOVSKY’S IENDS ED THEMSELV BY DGS, OTHERS TURNED TO VLADIMIR PUT FANS. KRASOVSKY PATH WAS DIFFERENT. “I AM STILL HAPPY THAT CHANG ME TO MY UNTRY; MY FAY HAD NEVER EXPERIENCED ANY DRAMATIC FANCIAL LOSS, WE WERE NEVER HUNGRY DURG THE PERD THAT SOME SCRIBE AS THE ‘BLOODY LIBERAL REGIME’—ANY CHANG ARE ALWAYS GOOD.”RUNNG FOR MOSW MAYOR, KRASOVSKY SE HIS ROLE, AS A NDIDATE, TO FIGHT FOR EQUALY FOR ALL. “OF ALL POLICIANS I PREFER OBAMA, I AM SOCIAL MOCRAT BY MY POLIL VIEWS, I WANT TO TAKE PART THE ELECTN TO SHOW THE CURRENT POLIL ELE HOW TO FIGHT FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AND EEDOM.” ANNA NEMTSOVA

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY

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SURPRISE! ABC FAY AND FOX ARE THE GAYT NETWORKS ON TV MUST GAY TVTHE WORKS WH THE MOST LGBT ARE ABC FAY AND FOX—ONCE NSIRED THE MOST NSERVATIVE CHANNELS ON TELEVISN. HERE'S HOW THEY BEME OUT AND PROUD. CAROLE LTONUPDATED JUL. 11, 2017 6:17PM EDT / PUBLISHED NOV. 07, 2013 5:45AM EST THE DAILY BEASTIT’S 9 P.M. ON WHAT TELEVISN CHANNEL IS YOUR TEEN MOST LIKELY TO SEE A GAY CHARACTER? IT’S NOT THE ONCE-SUBVERSIVE MTV. OR NBC, ONCE THE HOME OF FRIENDS AND WILL AND GRACE. IT’S ABC FAY AND FOX, THE WORKS LNCHED BY NSERVATIV, WHO HAVE THE MOST GAY AND LBIAN CHARACTERS ON BLE AND BROADST, RPECTIVELY. WHAT’S MORE, GLAAD SPECIFILLY CED ONE OF ABC FAY’S SIGNATURE SHOWS, THE FOSTERS, AS AN EXAMPLE OF THE DIRECTN THAT WORKS SHOULD FOLLOW. “IT’S IMPORTANT TO THAT THE SHOW REFLECT THE WORLD,” SAYS PETER PAIGE, ONE OF THE EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS AND HEAD WRERS ON THE FOSTERS.GLAAD’S NETWORK RPONSIBILY INX (NRI) EVALUAT THE “QUANTY AND QUALY OF IMAG OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR (LGBT) PEOPLE ON TELEVISN.” IN THE 2012-13 TELEVISN SEASON, 42 PERCENT OF ALL PRIMETIME BROADSTG HOURS ON FOX HAD LGBT CHARACTERS (SO ’S NOT JT GLEE), 33 PERCENT OF THE HOURS ON ABC HAD LGBT CHARACTERS, 29 PERCENT ON NBC, 28 PERCENT ON THE CW, AND JT 14 PERCENT ON CBS. ON BLE, ABC FAY CLOCKED 50 PERCENT OF S PRIMETIME HOURS WH LGBT CHARACTERS, FOLLOWED BY FX WH 40 PERCENT, SHOWTIME WH 31 PERCENT, MTV WH 28 PERCENT, TLC WH 27 PERCENT, HBO WH 26 PERCENT, USA 20 PERCENT, TNT 17 PERCENT, TBS 10 PERCENT, AND THE HISTORY CHANNEL G AD LAST, WH ZERO PERCENT. GLAAD ASSOCIATED DIRECTOR OF ENTERTAMENT MEDIA MATT KANE SAYS THEY WERE “SURPRISED” TO SEE FOX DO SO WELL, ALTHOUGH THE WORK IS FAMO FOR GLEE, ONE OF THE MOST DIVERSE AND GAY-IENDLY SHOWS ON TELEVISN.MTV WAS THE FIRST BLE WORK TO EVER RECEIVE AN “EXCELLENT” SRE, WH S GROUNDBREAKG SHOWS THE REAL WORLD, TE LIFE, AND SKS. GLAAD PRAISED THE WORK FOR BEG “RELIABLY CLIVE” 2012-13, BUT DID MENTN THAT THE NUMBER OF LBGT CHARACTERS HAVE SCE CLED. ABC FAY, MEANWHILE, RECEIVED THE SEND-EVER “EXCELLENT” SRE OM GLAAD 2011 (FOR THE RERD, ABC FAY ONLY RECEIVED A “GOOD” SRE THE 2012 REPORT). KANE SAYS THE ABC FAY HAS TRANSFORMED “NSIRG WHERE THEY ME OM—ALTHOUGH THAT WAS A VERY, VERY LONG TIME AGO THAT THE WORK HAD A NSERVATIVE BENT AND SIMPLY ISN’T THAT WORK ANY SHAPE OR FORM.”PAT ROBERTSON STARTED ABC FAY AS THE CBN SATELLE SERVICE 1977 TO FOC ON RELIG PROGRAMMG. IN 1990, HE SPUN THE HUGELY PROFABLE CHANNEL OFF TO THE INTERNATNAL FAY ENTERTAMENT INC., WH THE NEWLY-NAMED “FAY CHANNEL” BEG THE PRCIPLE PROPERTY. THE PANY WENT PUBLIC 1992, AND THEN WAS SOLD TO FOX KIDS WORLDWI 1997 FOR $1.9 BILLN. CBN RECEIVED $136.1 LN OM THE SALE, WH ROBERTSON PERSONALLY RECEIVG AN TIMATED $19 LN, ACRDG TO CHRISTIANY TODAY. ONE OF THE VEATS OF THE AL, ASI OM KEEPG “FAY” THE NAME, WAS THAT ROBERTSON’S SIGNATURE PROGRAM, THE 700 CLUB, WOULD NTUE TO AIR TWICE A DAY ON THE WORK. IN 2001, FOX SOLD THE CHANNEL TO DISNEY, WHERE WAS RENAMED ABC FAY.TODAY, ABC FAY IS NOT AFFILIATED WH CBN EXCEPT FOR THE 700 CLUB, AND THE WORK AIRS A DISCLAIMER PRR TO THE BROADST THAT SAYS DO NOT ENDORSE THE VIEWS STATED ON THE SHOW. MEANWHILE, 2006, THE WORK REBRAND SELF WH THE TAGLE “A NEW KD OF FAY.”“WE WANTED TO REPRENT FAY A NTEMPORARY AND THENTIC WAY, BUT WE ALSO DIDN’T WANT TO N AWAY OM THE WORD FAY,” SAYS KATE JUERGENS, ABC FAY’S CHIEF CREATIVE OFFICER AND EXECUTIVE VICE PRINT FOR ORIGAL PROGRAMMG AND DEVELOPMENT. “I THK [SEXUALY] WILL ALWAYS BE A PART OF OUR PROGRAMMG—I DON’T SEE GOG AWAY OM .”ENTER THE MORN ERA OF ABC FAY. ONE OF S SIGNATURE SHOWS, THE SECRET LIFE OF THE AMERIN TEENAGER, HAS THREE GAY CHARACTERS (AND A GUT SPOT BY CHAZ BONO), SWCHED AT BIRTH FEATUR A LBIAN CHARACTER, AND THE BREAKOUT H PRETTY LTLE LIARS HAS A MA CHARACTER, EY, WHO IS A LBIAN. PRETTY LTLE LIARS CREATOR MARLENE KG SAYS THAT WHEN ABC FAY APPROACHED HER TO ADAPT THE BOOK SERI TO A SHOW, SHE ASKED IF THE WORK WAS FORTABLE WH A CENTRAL CHARACTER BEG A LBIAN. WHAT’S MORE, KG DIDN’T WANT EY’S SEXUALY BE SOMETHG THAT F HER. “SHE JT SO HAPPENED TO BE GAY,” KG SAYS. BEG GAY IS “PART OF WHO SHE IS, BUT DON’T FE HER AND ’S NOT 100 PERCENT A PART OF WHO SHE IS.”THE FOSTERS, WHICH PREMIERED JUNE 2013, TELLS THE STORY OF A LBIAN UPLE RAISG SEVERAL CHILDREN, CLUDG THE BLOGIL SON OF ONE OF THE WOMEN AND SEVERAL ADOPTED AND FOSTER CHILDREN. GLAAD’S KANE LLS THE FOSTERS “A GREAT EXAMPLE OF A SHOW THAT HAS VERY DIVERSE CHARACTERS TERMS OF THEIR BACKGROUNDS AND THEIR ETHNICY.” IN FACT, THE SEASON FALE (SPOILERS), WHICH WAS FILMED JT DAYS AFTER THE DEFENSE OF MARRIAGE ACT WAS STCK DOWN, FEATURED THE WEDDG OF MA CHARACTERS LENA AND STEF.“BY FAR, WE WERE THE FIRST POST-DOMA LGBT WEDDG ON TELEVISN,” PAIGE SAYS. IN FACT, THE SCRIPT THE WEDDG SPEECH WAS LEFT WH ELLIPS TO CLU THE SUPREME COURT’S CISN. BIS BOTH HAVG NSERVATIVE ROOTS, ABC FAY AND WORK TELEVISN LEAR FOX ARE TARGETG LENNIALS (AND YOUNGER)—A MOGRAPHIC THAT IS MORE LIKELY TO SUPPORT GAY RIGHTS THAN OLR GENERATNS. AMONG YOUNG ADULTS AGED 18-32 (LENNIALS), 70 PERCENT SUPPORT SAME-SEX MARRIAGE, ACRDG TO A MARCH PEW REARCH POLL. THE GENERATN AFTER LENNIALS, THE TEEN DIENCE THAT ABC FAY URTS, IS LIKELY TO BE EVEN MORE SUPPORTIVE OF LGBT RIGHTS.“THE TEEN DIENCE HAS EMBRACED THIS SHOW AND THIS FAY TO SUCH A GREE THAT THEY’RE CELEBRATG ,” PAIGE SAYS. “THEY DON’T SEE , AND THEY’RE NOT WATCHG THE SHOW THE WAY PEOPLE OF MY GENERATN ARE, WHERE THEY’RE LIKE ‘HOLY SMOK, I N’T BELIEVE THIS IS ON TV.’ THEY’RE GOG, ‘OH YEAH, THAT’S LIKE MY IEND JIM, WHO'S GOT TWO MOMS. OR MY IEND BILL, WHO'S GOT TWO MOMS.’ IT’S JT A PART OF THE WORLD THEY LIVE , AND I THK THAT’S SUCH A BETIFUL, BETIFUL THG.”BUT THERE’S A FLIPSI TO THAT: AMONG THE BABY BOOMERS, ONLY 38 PERCENT SUPPORT SAME-SEX MARRIAGE, ACRDG TO THE SAME PEW POLL. MORE THAN 70 PERCENT OF REPUBLINS, MEANWHILE, ARE OPPOSED TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE, ACRDG TO A JUNE PEW POLL. THAT ULD HELP EXPLA THE HISTORY CHANNEL HAVG ZERO GAY CHARACTERS. VIEWERS OF THE HISTORY CHANNEL TEND TO LEAN REPUBLIN, ACRDG TO A 2012 REPORT BY YOUGOV BRAND INX, AS WELL AS TEND TO BE OLR, WH 39 PERCENT OF THE WORKS DIENCE BEG OVER 55 AND THE AVERAGE AGE OF S VIEWERS IS 49.4 YEARS, ACRDG TO NATNAL TV SPOTS.WHEN ASKED FOR MENT, THE HISTORY CHANNEL SENT A STATEMENT SAYG THAT THE MAJORY OF S NTENT IS “HISTORIL NATURE, AND PRIMARILY FEATUR PROGRAMMG THE HISTORY-BASED REALY GENRE. ADDNALLY, WE HAVE VERY LIMED SCRIPTED PROGRAMS, AND WHAT WE DO HAVE, IS HISTORILLY-BASED, SUCH AS VIKGS AND HATFIELDS & MCCOYS. BEE OF THE NATURE OF OUR PROGRAMMG, AS A WORK, WE FEEL IS APPROPRIATE AND SENSIVE TO ASK ANY OF OUR CHARACTERS ABOUT THEIR SEXUALY (AND SEXUAL PREFERENCE).”IN THE MEANTIME, KANE REMAS OPTIMISTIC THAT THE HISTORY CHANNEL AND OTHER WORKS WH LOW REPRENTATN OF GAY AND LBIAN CHARACTERS WILL PROGRS MORE TOWARD CLN. FOR EXAMPLE, KANE, SAYS, TRANSGENR PEOPLE WERE ONCE “NEARLY VISIBLE” ON WORKS, AND NOW GLEE HAS MA UNIQUE A RECURRG CHARACTER, NETFLIX’S ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK HAS A TRANS CHARACTER, AND THE FOSTERS IS ADDG A TRANS CHARACTER NEXT SEASON.“THERE’S A LOT OF REALLY GREAT ORIGAL STORI OUT THERE TO TELL ABOUT LGBT PEOPLE THAT YOU’RE NOT GOG TO GET SIMPLY BY PUTTG ANOTHER GAY WHE MAN ON TELEVISN,” KANE SAYS. CAROLE LTON

Y, a growg body of knowledge is ditg that homosexualy n n fai, although this often has been hidn many s and not discsed openly. Acrdg to thors Barbara and Allan Pease, there is a greater chance of a male beg gay if he has brothers, uncl, s, or parents (more on the mother’s si) who are also gay. A iend of me recently disvered—to his great surprise—that his mother was lbian and that two maternal s are gay (one male and one female) along wh a paternal uncle.

WHAT 'S LIKE BEG AMERI'S FIRST OPENLY GAY ERNOR

So his se, homosexualy shows up on both sis of his fay at least two generatns.

Psychologist Anthony Bogaert of Brock Universy Ontar Canada reported that the risk of beg gay creas wh the number of olr brothers. A 1995 news release om Stanford Universy dited that the probabily that the brother of a gay man is gay is about four tim higher than normal.

However, male homosexualy and lbianism tend to n different fai: sisters wh gay brothers are not more likely than normal to be lbian.

WHY THERE ARE FEW OPENLY GAY ATHLET IN MEN'S PROFSNAL SPORTS

A 1993 study that traced the pedigree of pairs of gay brothers found that homosexualy tends to n on the maternal si of the fay tree: the brothers had a higher than average number of maternal nephews and uncl who are gay. Scientists, led by Dean Hamer, an Aids rearcher at the US Natnal Cancer Instute, studied the fay histori of 114 gay mal and found that 13. 5 percent of the gay men's brothers were also homosexual, pared wh 2 percent the general populatn.

They also found that maternal uncl and maternal male s were more likely to be homosexual.

A RSIAN REALY TV SHOW LLED 'I'M NOT GAY' MAK 8 NTTANTS GUS WHICH IS GAY — AND 'S HOSTED BY A RIGHT-WG POLICIAN

In some of the fai, gay relativ uld be traced back three generatns.

MEET ANTON KRASOVSKY, THE GAY MAN RUNNG FOR MAYOR OF MOSWBRAVEANTON KRASOVSKY STANDS ALONE: THE ONLY OUT LGBTQ PERSON WILLG TO STAND FOR ELECTN RSIA. THAT’S IF THE THORI ALLOW HIM TO N FOR MAYOR OF MOSW THIS SEPTEMBER.ANNA NEMTSOVAUPDATED JUN. 29, 2018 12:01PM EDT VALERY SHARIFUL/GETTYMOSCOW—ANTON KRASOVSKY’S MOUTH IS FULL OF SWEAR WORDS. HE IS ANGRY WH PRETTY MUCH EVERY LIAR AND PROPAGANDIST MOSW, THE CY HE LOV AND WANTS TO CHANGE. AT TIM SEEMS THAT HIS URAGE WOULD DISAPPEAR THE MOMENT HE STOPS CURSG. AND URAGE IS WHAT HE NEEDS MOST RIGHT NOW, AS KRASOVSKY IS THE ONLY OPENLY GAY PERSON THE UNTRY OF RSIA—WH A POPULATN OF MORE THAN 140 LN—WHO DAR TO PETE THE KREML-NTROLLED ELECTN PROCS.THE MAJORY OF RSIAN POLICIANS AND BURECRATS AGREE THAT LGBTQ PEOPLE ARE ABNORMAL. JT THE IA OF BEG ONE SGLE WARRR THE POLIL FIELD SOAKED HATE AND THRIVG HOMOPHOBIA WOULD SRE MANY AWAY OM THE ARENA. LAST MONTH, SPEAKG ON PENNT RAD STATN ECHO OF MOSW, KRASOVSKY REVEALED THE NEWS: SEPTEMBER HE WOULD N FOR MAYORAL ELECTN MOSW, IF THE THORI ALLOW HIM TO. (HE IS REGISTERED AS A NDIDATE BUT TO ACTUALLY TAKE PART THE ELECTN HE WILL HAVE TO LLECT SIGNATUR OF 110 MUNICIPAL PUTI BEFORE JULY 3.) “I ALMOST PISSED MY PANTS WHEN I CID TO N FOR MOSW MAYOR,” KRASOVSKY ADMTED TO THE DAILY BEAST A RECENT S-DOWN TERVIEW ONE OF MOSW’S HIP FFEE SHOPS, COFFEEMANIA. HERE, MOSW’S OLD TOWN KAI GOROD, MANY REGNIZED KRASOVSKY’S FACE.FIVE YEARS AGO, JUNE, 2013, 436 RSIAN MPS VOTED FAVOR OF A NEW BILL TO BAN “PROPAGANDA OF NON-TRADNAL SEXUAL RELATNS” AMONG MORS. THE BILL FORBA BOTH DIVIDUALS AND MEDIA GROUPS TO DISTRIBUTE LERATURE OR ANY OTHER MATERIALS ABOUT GAY RIGHTS. MANY LGBTQ FAI FLED THE UNTRY FEAR OF THE STATE TAKG THEIR CHILDREN AWAY OM THEM.SCE THEN, PRINT PUT HAS BEEN CRICIZED FOR NOT DOG ENOUGH TO HELP THE GAY MEN KILLED AND PERSECUTED A VIC CRACKDOWN CHECHNYA. THE NOTED BRISH LGBT ACTIVIST PETER TATCHELL PROTTED PRECISELY THIS AT THE BEGNG OF THE WORLD CUP, WHERE THE HOMOPHOBIA AND ANTI-LGBT POLICS OF RSIA HAS AGA E UNR THE TERNATNAL SPOTLIGHT.ABOUT WHY HE MOUNTED THE PROTT, TATCHELL TOLD THE DAILY BEAST AT THE TIME, “IT’S TREMENDOLY IMPORTANT THAT PRINT PUT DON’T SRE AN UNCHALLENGED PUBLIC RELATNS UP WH THE WORLD CUP. HE NEEDS TO BE LLED OUT OVER THE PERSECUTN OF LGBT+ PEOPLE, HIS SUPPRSN OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS OF RSIAN CIZENS, AND HIS WAR CRIM SYRIA.”THE DAILY BEAST ASKED KRASOVSKY WHY HE HAD GONE TO POLICS, WHEN MANY RSIAN GAY MEN AND WOMEN WERE FLEEG THE UNTRY. “BEE EVERYTHG SUCKS HERE,” KRASOVSKY SAID. HE WAS NVCED THAT, EVEN IF THE KREML DID NOT ALLOW HIS PARTICIPATN THE ELECTN, THE EXPERIENCE WOULD BE EFUL FOR HIS POLIL REER.IN THE PAST FEW YEARS KRASOVSKY HAS MANAGED ELECTN MPAIGNS FOR TWO OPPOSN NDIDAT, BILLNAIRE MIKHAIL PROKHOROV’S AND A POP SOCIALE KSENIA SOBCHAK.THE IA OF RIDG A BLACK R OR SHAKG HANDS WH PRINT PUT’S IENDS SOUND RATHER HUMORO TO THE NEW NDIDATE KRASOVSKY, A FORMER RSIAN VOGUE MAGAZE RRPONNT. “SOMEBODY LIKE CHECHEN LEAR RAMZAN KADYROV WOULD NOT SHAKE MY HAND; BUT IF HE WANTS TO SHAKE A HAND OF GAY, I WILL SHAKE HIS HAND BACK.”IN RSIA OFFICIALS ARE NOT SHY ABOUT THEIR HOMOPHOBIC VIEWS. THERE IS A SIGN ON THE DOOR TO THE OFFICE OF MP VALY MILONOV, AT STATE DUMA, THE LOWER HOE OF RSIAN PARLIAMENT: “BANNED ENTRY FOR SODOM.” MILONOV IS ONE OF MASTERMDS BEHD THE ANTI-GAY “PROPAGANDA” BILL— 2016 HE CLAIMED THAT GAY PEOPLE “RAPE KIDS.”FOR YEARS, RSIA'S SMALL MUNY OF LGBTQ ACTIVISTS HAVE ENDURED HARASSMENT OM VLENT NATNALISTS AND POLICE. MOST RSIAN GAY PEOPLE HAVE GIVEN UP THE STGGLE FOR THEIR RIGHTS—THEY EHER PLAN TO PE OR PREFER TO LIVE QUIETLY THEIR SMALL CIRCL.WHEN MANY OF HIS IENDS IMMIGRATED, KRASOVSKY PREFERRED TO STAY RSIA, ALTHOUGH WH HIS LONG EXPERIENCE OF WORKG AS A MAGAZE WRER AND A TV PRENTER HE MIGHT BE ABLE TO FD A GOOD PLACE FOR HIMSELF NEW YORK OR ANY EUROPEAN PAL. THERE HAVE BEEN WORSE TIM HIS LIFE, HE SAID, WHICH LEFT HIM AMONG VERY FEW SURVIVORS. “I THK ABOUT 90 PERCENT OF MY IENDS OM MOSW BOHEMIA CIRCL HAVE KILLED THEMSELV BY ALHOL AND DGS AND THE RT HAVE BUILT THEMSELV TO THE CURRENT STATE SYSTEM. IT IS A MIRACLE THAT I DID NOT DRK MYSELF TO ATH,” HE ADMTED TO THE DAILY BEAST.THIS IS NOT THE FIRST TIME KRASOVSKY HAS SHOWN HIS URAGE RSIA. DURG HIS G OUT ON THE INTER KONTR TV 2013 KRASOVSKY SAID: “I AM GAY BUT I AM JT AS HUMAN AS PUT.” LAST YEAR, AN TERVIEW PUBLISHED ON FACEBOOK, KRASOVSKY ADMTED THAT HE HAD BEEN LIVG WH HIV SCE 2011. AS A VOLUNTEER AND ACTIVIST, KRASOVSKY AND HIS IENDS HAVE BEEN PHG THORI FOR TAKG MEASUR, LEGALIZG METHADONE TREATMENT, FOR FIGHTG HIV/AIDS EPIMIC RSIA.ALTHOUGH THE KREML HAS SANCTNED HOMOPHOBIA THROUGHOUT THE UNTRY, KRASOVSKY SISTS THAT ORDARY PEOPLE DO NOT HATE LGBTQ PEOPLE. “IT IS AN ILLN THAT RSIA IS A HOMOPHOBIC UNTRY BY S NATURE,” KRASOVSKY SISTED TO THE DAILY BEAST. HE SOUND IRRATED, WHEN HE SPOKE ABOUT STEREOTYP CREATED BY MEDIA. “MY HOMOSEXUALY HAS NEVER HELPED ME BUT HAS NEVER BEEN THE WAY OF MY REER GOALS. IF PEOPLE ARE NSTANTLY TOLD THAT QUEERS ARE BASTARDS, AND TO BEAT THEM BEE ALL THEY WANT IS TO WALK THE STREETS NAKED, SOME GO AND DO BEAT UP LGBT PEOPLE.”DURG THE PAST MONTH KRASOVSKY HAS BEEN HOLDG DAILY PUBLIC MEETGS WH HIS ELECTORATE DIFFERENT DISTRICTS OF MOSW. “PEOPLE DO NOT RE IF YOU ARE HOMOSEXUAL OR NOT, NOR IS ANYBODY TERTED YOUR HIV OR ANY OTHER HEALTH PROBLEMS; PEOPLE WANT TO TALK WH ME ABOUT THE CY MOLISHG HO THEIR DISTRICT, OF MUNAL SERVIC FAILG, AND OF SOME ILLEGAL NSTCTN S OR SCHOOLS CLOSG DOWN THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD.” WHEN KRASOVSKY WAS YOUNG HIS FAY LIVED TY ROOMS AND MUNAL APARTMENTS FOR MOST OF HIS CHILDHOOD. HE WAS BORN ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF MOSW THE PROVCIAL TOWN OF PODOLSK (WHICH HAS A POPULATN OF 302,831) WHERE KRASOVSKY WENT TO SCHOOL. HE NTUED HIS STUDI UKRAE, THE TOWN OF RIVNE, WHERE HIS ENGEER FATHER WORKED AT RIVNE NUCLEAR POWER PLANT. “WHEN I TURNED 14, I MOVED TO MOSW AND DISVERED THE LIFE OF UNRGROUND BOHEMIA—MANY OF MY IENDS WERE G E AT THE TIME.”DURG THE PERTROIKA YEARS THE LATE 1980 KRASOVSKY BELONGED TO UNTERCULTURE CIRCL OF SOVIET HIPSTERS, LLG THEMSELV “STILYAGI.” “WE WERE ALL LISTENG TO ELVIS PRLEY, WENT TO VIKTOR TSOI’S NCERTS. I DRSED UP SEND HAND CLOTH OM THSKY MARKET. I HAD SOME HELLISH WHE JACKET AT SOME POT. LOOK, I WAS NEVER RICH, I NEVER HAD ENOUGH MONEY TO BUY EXPENSIVE CLOTH.”KRASOVSKY’S IENDS MET ON THURSDAYS AT AN UNRGROUND CLUB LLED MOLOKO. KRASOVSKY STUDIED MAXIM GORKY LERATURE INSTUTE, THE TRAG GROUND FOR RSIAN POETS. HIS PANY OF HIP LOOKG YOUTH MGLED WH A QUEEN OF SOVIET AND POST-SOVIET ROCK AND ROLL, ZHANNA AGUZAROVA. IF, AS HE SAYS, SOME OF KRASOVSKY’S IENDS ED THEMSELV BY DGS, OTHERS TURNED TO VLADIMIR PUT FANS. KRASOVSKY PATH WAS DIFFERENT. “I AM STILL HAPPY THAT CHANG ME TO MY UNTRY; MY FAY HAD NEVER EXPERIENCED ANY DRAMATIC FANCIAL LOSS, WE WERE NEVER HUNGRY DURG THE PERD THAT SOME SCRIBE AS THE ‘BLOODY LIBERAL REGIME’—ANY CHANG ARE ALWAYS GOOD.”RUNNG FOR MOSW MAYOR, KRASOVSKY SE HIS ROLE, AS A NDIDATE, TO FIGHT FOR EQUALY FOR ALL. “OF ALL POLICIANS I PREFER OBAMA, I AM SOCIAL MOCRAT BY MY POLIL VIEWS, I WANT TO TAKE PART THE ELECTN TO SHOW THE CURRENT POLIL ELE HOW TO FIGHT FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AND EEDOM.” ANNA NEMTSOVA

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