Why the Gay Subplots ‘The Lighthoe’ and ‘Jojo Rabb’ Don’t Go Far Enough

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• WHY THE GAY SUBPLOTS ‘THE LIGHTHOE’ AND ‘JOJO RABB’ DON’T GO FAR ENOUGH
• GAY MOSW · CY GUI
• GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI
• ARTHUR FKELSTE, THE HYPOCRE GAY CONSULTANT WHO KEPT ELECTG RIGHT-WG HOMOPHOBWH A CAPAL HHE MOSTLY LLED DEMOCRATS ‘TOO LIBERAL,’ ‘SUPER LIBERAL,’ AND ‘SANELY LIBERAL.’ BUT HE ALSO CUT AN AD FOR JSE HELMS ABOUT ‘THE HOMOSEXUALS.’ AND HE NEVER SQUARED .ELEANOR CLIFTPUBLISHED AUG. 26, 2017 10:07PM EDT GARY MALONEYLIBERTARIANS ARE LIVE-AND-LET-LIVE WHEN TO CULTURAL ISSU, AND “ARTHUR’S KIDS,” A GENERATN OF GOP OPERATIV, KNEW BUT DIDN’T RE THAT THEIR HERO AND MENTOR, POLIL NSULTANT ARTHUR FKELSTE, WAS GAY; BUT NEHER DID THEY MD THAT GAY BASHG WAS A TOOL TO W ELECTNS.FKELSTE, WHO DIED AUG. 18 AT AGE 72, WAS “OUTED” 1996 AN ARTICLE BOSTON MAGAZE. THAT WAS THE SAME YEAR HE DIRECTED STRATEGY FOR 33 SENATE REPUBLINS. BY THEN, POLIL SIRS AND REPORTERS HAD KNOWN FOR SOME TIME ABOUT HIS FAY LIFE, WHICH CLUD TWO DGHTERS THAT HE AND HIS PARTNER HAD ADOPTED.THE MAGAZE ARTICLE EXPOSED THE DISNNECT BETWEEN HIS PERSONAL LIFE AND HIS WORK TO ELECT ANTI-GAY NDIDAT. HEADG THE LIST WAS NORTH CAROLA SEN. JSE HELMS, WHOSE ADS HIS 1990 SENATE RACE, CRAFTED BY FKELSTE, ACCED “HOMOSEXUALS” OF “BUYG THIS ELECTN” FOR DEMOCRAT HARVEY GANTT BEE OF GANTT’S SUPPORT FOR “MANDATORY GAY RIGHTS.”THE ARTICLE NOTED THAT SEVERAL OTHER FKELSTE CLIENTS, LCH FAIRCLOTH (R-NC), DON NICKL (R-OK) AND BOB SMH (R-NH), TOGETHER WH HELMS, FEATED A BILL BANNG ANTI-GAY JOB DISCRIMATN. FAIRCLOTH LED THE FIGHT ON THE SENATE FLOOR FOR THE ANTI-GAY FACTN, CLARG, “SAME-SEX UNNS DO NOT MAKE STRONG FAI.” SMH OPPOSED GAYS ADOPTG CHILDREN. NICKL SPONSORED THE DEFENSE OF MARRIAGE ACT.  FKELSTE “SELLS HIS TALENTS TO LAWMAKERS WHO WOULD OUTLAW HIS FAY’S VERY EXISTENCE,” WROTE NEW YORK TIM LUMNIST FRANK RICH 1996.FKELSTE’S HYPOCRISY WAS THE JTIFITN FOR OUTG HIM, AND AMONG HIS CLIENTS, ONLY FAIRCLOTH DROPPED HIM OVER THE REVELATN FOR A SHORT TIME BEFORE REHIRG HIM. “HIS CLIENTS EHER KNEW OR HEARD THE GOSSIP AND SPECTED, BUT THEY FOCED ON HIS IAS AND HIS POLLG,” SAYS CRAIG SHIRLEY, ONE OF “ARTHUR’S KIDS,” NOW A HISTORIAN WRG MALY ABOUT REAGAN. “IF YOU SCRATCH THE SURFACE OF A LOT OF REPUBLINS, THEY ARE LAISSE-FAIRE WHEN TO THE WHOLE GAY ISSUE.” MAYBE PERSONALLY. THEY SURE DON’T VOTE THAT WAY.ROGER STONE WAS ONE OF ARTHUR’S KIDS. THAT’S WHERE HE LEARNED HOW TO READ POLLS, “REALLY READ POLLS,” HE TOLD THE DAILY BEAST, AND HOW TO MOVE PUBLIC OPN WH HEAVY DOS OF BROADST TELEVISN G SIMPLE REPETIVE PHRASG. ANTI-GAY RHETORIC UNR THE GUISE OF FAY VALU WAS PART OF THE DRILL, AND WAS RARELY QUTNED. NEGATIVE ADS WERE PART OF ARTHUR’S GENI.    “HE WAS AGAST ALL THE THGS THAT HE WAS FACT DOG,” SAYS STONE. “ARTHUR JT NEVER ADDRSED THE ISSUE, BUT HE LET HIS NDIDAT RABBLE ROE ON . THAT’S WRONG, AND I DON’T KNOW HOW HE SQUARED .”THE NCEPT OF OUTG WAS SUCH A HOT BUTTON ISSUE BEE THIS WAS A TIME OF UNIFORM HOMOPHOBIA, AND PEOPLE WERE DYG OF AIDS. FKELSTE WAS ONE OF MANY HYPOCR RIGHT-WG POLICS. HE SPIRED THE CREATN OF THE NATNAL CONSERVATIVE POLIL ACTN COMMTEE (NCPAC), A FUNDRAISG BEHEMOTH WHOSE -FOUNR AND CHAIRMAN, TERRY DOLAN, WOULD DIE OF AIDS 1986 AT AGE 36. STONE RELLS A FUNDRAISG LETTER SIGNED BY DOLAN THAT CLUD AN ANTI-GAY PARAGRAPH. STONE SAYS HE RIGNED AS TREASURER PROTT. SHIRLEY SAYS HE AND OTHERS FELT “PROTECTIVE” ABOUT DOLAN, AND THAT THEIR SILENCE WAS AN EXTENSN OF THEIR LIBERTARIAN BELIEFS.POLIL SCIENTIST DARRELL M. WT OBSERVED AT THE TIME, “HE A SLEDGEHAMMER EVERY RACE,” DRIVG HOME FIVE FAVORE PHRAS, “ULTRALIBERAL, SUPER LIBERAL, EMBARRASSGLY LIBERAL, FOOLISHLY LIBERAL AND UNBELIEVABLY LIBERAL.”  WHEN I LLED WT FOR MENT, HE ADD A SIXTH, “SHOCKGLY LIBERAL.”DEMONIZG THE L-WORD IS ONE THG, BUT ’S HARD TO FATHOM HOW A GENERATN OF GOP ALYT WENT ALONG WH AN DIVIDUAL THEY KNEW WAS GAY ENURAGG CLIENTS TO E HOMOPHOBIC RHETORIC. “WE ALL KNEW, BUT WASN’T IMPORTANT TO ANY OF ,” SHIRLEY TOLD THE DAILY BEAST. “OF THE THOANDS OF NVERSATNS WH ARTHUR THAT I HAD OM 1997 UNTIL EARLIER THIS YEAR, WE TALKED ABOUT THE ISSUE ONCE A PHILOSOPHIL SENSE, NOT ABOUT HIS PERSONAL BEHAVR. IT SEEMED IMPOLE TO TALK ABOUT THAT.”STONE SAYS FKELSTE “NEVER ONCE ACKNOWLEDGED HE WAS GAY.” HE KEPT BS AND PRIVATE LIFE SEPARATE, HE NEVER TALKED TO REPORTERS, HE ED AN ASSUMED NAME WHEN HE CHECKED TO HOTELS, SO PUBLICY AVERSE THAT FEW PHOTOS OF HIM EVEN EXIST. IT’S “FAIR NJECTURE” TO ATTRIBUTE HIS ELIVE BEHAVR TO A NEED TO PROTECT HIS LIFE CHOIC, SAYS STONE.IN DECEMBER 2004, AFTER AN ANTI-GAY REFERENDUM ON THE BALLOT OH BOOSTED GOP TURNOUT ENOUGH TO ARGUABLY ST DEMOCRAT JOHN KERRY THE STATE, AND THE PRINTIAL ELECTN, FKELSTE QUIETLY MARRIED HIS LONGTIME PARTNER A CIVIL CEREMONY. A STATEMENT SOME MONTHS LATER ANNOUNCG THE MARRIAGE WAS FOLLOWED BY ANOTHER ANNOUNCEMENT THAT FKELSTE WAS PLANNG TO SPEARHEAD A “STOP HILLARY NOW” DRIVE AHEAD OF HER 2006 SENATE REELECTN, AND THAT WOULD BE MOLED ON THE SWIFT BOAT VETERANS FOR TTH MPAIGN THAT HAD HELPED RAIL KERRY.FORMER PRINT BILL CLTON STEPPED TO THE AY, SAYG, “EHER THIS GUY BELIEV HIS PARTY IS NOT SER AND HE’S TOTALLY MACHIAVELLIAN OR HE MAY BE BLD BY SELF-LOATHG,” AN OBV REFERENCE TO FKELSTE BEG GAY A PARTY THAT GAS VOT BY BEG ANTI-GAY. CLTON UGHT HELL FOR HIS REMARK. THE DAILY NEWS LIKENED TO KERRY’S ATTEMPT TO TERJECT VICE PRINT CHENEY’S GAY DGHTER TO THE FAL PRINTIAL BATE 2004 WHEN THE NDIDAT WERE ASKED IF THEY BELIEVE HOMOSEXUALY IS A CHOICE.“IF YOU WERE TO TALK TO DICK CHENEY’S DGHTER, WHO IS A LBIAN, SHE WOULD TELL YOU THAT SHE’S BEG WHO SHE WAS, SHE’S BEG WHO SHE WAS BORN AS,” KERRY REPLIED. THE MENT WAS MEANT TO LL OUT THE REPUBLINS FOR THEIR HYPOCRISY, BUT BACKFIRED POLILLY WHEN EVEN DEMOCRATS JOED REPUBLINS SEEG AS GRATUOLY EXPLOATIVE.   ATTUS WERE CHANGG, AND WAS EMED DIRTY POOL TO CHALLENGE FKELSTE ABOUT THE NTRADICTN BETWEEN HIS PRIVATE LIFE AND THE POLICS HE PRACTICED. HIS HEYDAY OVER, AND HIS REPUTATN SECURE AS A GROUNDBREAKG POLLSTER, FKELSTE WORKED MALY ABROAD HIS LATER YEARS, NCENTRATG ON NSERVATIVE NDIDAT ISRAEL, CLUDG PRIME MISTER NETANYAHU.IF HE HAD ANY REGRETS ABOUT HELPG ELECT NDIDAT WH ANTI-GAY RHETORIC AND ADS, HE KEPT THEM TO HIMSELF. “HE TOLD ME TMP TRIED TO HIRE HIM AND HE TURNED TMP DOWN,” SAYS SHIRLEY. “MAK SENSE, TMP IS PRETTY FAR OM A LIBERTARIAN OR A TRADNAL REPUBLIN. HE JT WOULDN’T WORK FOR ANYBODY.” BUT HE WORKED FOR A LOT OF SOMEBODI WHO VOTED TO PREVENT HIM OM MAKG A UNN WH THE MAN HE LOVED. ELEANOR CLIFT
• WHY THE GAY SUBPLOTS ‘THE LIGHTHOE’ AND ‘JOJO RABB’ DON’T GO FAR ENOUGH
• WHY THE GAY SUBPLOTS ‘THE LIGHTHOE’ AND ‘JOJO RABB’ DON’T GO FAR ENOUGH

WHY THE GAY SUBPLOTS ‘THE LIGHTHOE’ AND ‘JOJO RABB’ DON’T GO FAR ENOUGH

Both movi e om wildly ventive filmmakers wh styl so specific their films n feel like their own mi-genr, but they share half-baked gay subtexts that fall short of their amb visns.

In a story about two men on a serted island, the homoeroticism is practilly baked to the log-le. ” But a foppish Hler is the least of Wai’s troubl — the real homoeroticism to play wh Sam Rockwell’s character. (Wai don’t even beg to addrs that the Nazis were sendg gay people to ncentratn mps.

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The movie’s “exclively gay moment” may be lour than the one “The Lighthoe, ” but ’s far more problematic, as Wai plays for edic affect to generate sympathy for his characters — queerns as shorthand for humany. Of urse, neher Wai or Eggers are gay, which is not to say straight filmmakers n’t or shouldn’t e queer elements their work. In Jojo Rabb (2019), both Capta Klenzendorf and Freddie Fkle’s self-ma uniforms have upsi down pk triangl, which is the patch Nazis would give to distguish homosexuals ncentratn mps.

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Fkel(Alfie Allen) the Nazi army ranked him for beg gay he secretly allied wh Rosie's Free Germany also knew Jojo's sister died so he saved them om probably told him by the end is fairly obv that Capta K was the good guy all along. I jt realized om a few scen that he acts unually timate wh his iend, and 's obv that they're gay. First of all, the people that were searchg the hoe were om Gtapo, not "German generals" - Gtapo was secret police that was tasked wh ntrollg the populatn - "takg re" of people that were "unsirable" - polil opponents, Jews, homosexuals etc.

ARTHUR FKELSTE, THE HYPOCRE GAY CONSULTANT WHO KEPT ELECTG RIGHT-WG HOMOPHOBWH A CAPAL HHE MOSTLY LLED DEMOCRATS ‘TOO LIBERAL,’ ‘SUPER LIBERAL,’ AND ‘SANELY LIBERAL.’ BUT HE ALSO CUT AN AD FOR JSE HELMS ABOUT ‘THE HOMOSEXUALS.’ AND HE NEVER SQUARED .ELEANOR CLIFTPUBLISHED AUG. 26, 2017 10:07PM EDT GARY MALONEYLIBERTARIANS ARE LIVE-AND-LET-LIVE WHEN TO CULTURAL ISSU, AND “ARTHUR’S KIDS,” A GENERATN OF GOP OPERATIV, KNEW BUT DIDN’T RE THAT THEIR HERO AND MENTOR, POLIL NSULTANT ARTHUR FKELSTE, WAS GAY; BUT NEHER DID THEY MD THAT GAY BASHG WAS A TOOL TO W ELECTNS.FKELSTE, WHO DIED AUG. 18 AT AGE 72, WAS “OUTED” 1996 AN ARTICLE BOSTON MAGAZE. THAT WAS THE SAME YEAR HE DIRECTED STRATEGY FOR 33 SENATE REPUBLINS. BY THEN, POLIL SIRS AND REPORTERS HAD KNOWN FOR SOME TIME ABOUT HIS FAY LIFE, WHICH CLUD TWO DGHTERS THAT HE AND HIS PARTNER HAD ADOPTED.THE MAGAZE ARTICLE EXPOSED THE DISNNECT BETWEEN HIS PERSONAL LIFE AND HIS WORK TO ELECT ANTI-GAY NDIDAT. HEADG THE LIST WAS NORTH CAROLA SEN. JSE HELMS, WHOSE ADS HIS 1990 SENATE RACE, CRAFTED BY FKELSTE, ACCED “HOMOSEXUALS” OF “BUYG THIS ELECTN” FOR DEMOCRAT HARVEY GANTT BEE OF GANTT’S SUPPORT FOR “MANDATORY GAY RIGHTS.”THE ARTICLE NOTED THAT SEVERAL OTHER FKELSTE CLIENTS, LCH FAIRCLOTH (R-NC), DON NICKL (R-OK) AND BOB SMH (R-NH), TOGETHER WH HELMS, FEATED A BILL BANNG ANTI-GAY JOB DISCRIMATN. FAIRCLOTH LED THE FIGHT ON THE SENATE FLOOR FOR THE ANTI-GAY FACTN, CLARG, “SAME-SEX UNNS DO NOT MAKE STRONG FAI.” SMH OPPOSED GAYS ADOPTG CHILDREN. NICKL SPONSORED THE DEFENSE OF MARRIAGE ACT.  FKELSTE “SELLS HIS TALENTS TO LAWMAKERS WHO WOULD OUTLAW HIS FAY’S VERY EXISTENCE,” WROTE NEW YORK TIM LUMNIST FRANK RICH 1996.FKELSTE’S HYPOCRISY WAS THE JTIFITN FOR OUTG HIM, AND AMONG HIS CLIENTS, ONLY FAIRCLOTH DROPPED HIM OVER THE REVELATN FOR A SHORT TIME BEFORE REHIRG HIM. “HIS CLIENTS EHER KNEW OR HEARD THE GOSSIP AND SPECTED, BUT THEY FOCED ON HIS IAS AND HIS POLLG,” SAYS CRAIG SHIRLEY, ONE OF “ARTHUR’S KIDS,” NOW A HISTORIAN WRG MALY ABOUT REAGAN. “IF YOU SCRATCH THE SURFACE OF A LOT OF REPUBLINS, THEY ARE LAISSE-FAIRE WHEN TO THE WHOLE GAY ISSUE.” MAYBE PERSONALLY. THEY SURE DON’T VOTE THAT WAY.ROGER STONE WAS ONE OF ARTHUR’S KIDS. THAT’S WHERE HE LEARNED HOW TO READ POLLS, “REALLY READ POLLS,” HE TOLD THE DAILY BEAST, AND HOW TO MOVE PUBLIC OPN WH HEAVY DOS OF BROADST TELEVISN G SIMPLE REPETIVE PHRASG. ANTI-GAY RHETORIC UNR THE GUISE OF FAY VALU WAS PART OF THE DRILL, AND WAS RARELY QUTNED. NEGATIVE ADS WERE PART OF ARTHUR’S GENI.    “HE WAS AGAST ALL THE THGS THAT HE WAS FACT DOG,” SAYS STONE. “ARTHUR JT NEVER ADDRSED THE ISSUE, BUT HE LET HIS NDIDAT RABBLE ROE ON . THAT’S WRONG, AND I DON’T KNOW HOW HE SQUARED .”THE NCEPT OF OUTG WAS SUCH A HOT BUTTON ISSUE BEE THIS WAS A TIME OF UNIFORM HOMOPHOBIA, AND PEOPLE WERE DYG OF AIDS. FKELSTE WAS ONE OF MANY HYPOCR RIGHT-WG POLICS. HE SPIRED THE CREATN OF THE NATNAL CONSERVATIVE POLIL ACTN COMMTEE (NCPAC), A FUNDRAISG BEHEMOTH WHOSE -FOUNR AND CHAIRMAN, TERRY DOLAN, WOULD DIE OF AIDS 1986 AT AGE 36. STONE RELLS A FUNDRAISG LETTER SIGNED BY DOLAN THAT CLUD AN ANTI-GAY PARAGRAPH. STONE SAYS HE RIGNED AS TREASURER PROTT. SHIRLEY SAYS HE AND OTHERS FELT “PROTECTIVE” ABOUT DOLAN, AND THAT THEIR SILENCE WAS AN EXTENSN OF THEIR LIBERTARIAN BELIEFS.POLIL SCIENTIST DARRELL M. WT OBSERVED AT THE TIME, “HE A SLEDGEHAMMER EVERY RACE,” DRIVG HOME FIVE FAVORE PHRAS, “ULTRALIBERAL, SUPER LIBERAL, EMBARRASSGLY LIBERAL, FOOLISHLY LIBERAL AND UNBELIEVABLY LIBERAL.”  WHEN I LLED WT FOR MENT, HE ADD A SIXTH, “SHOCKGLY LIBERAL.”DEMONIZG THE L-WORD IS ONE THG, BUT ’S HARD TO FATHOM HOW A GENERATN OF GOP ALYT WENT ALONG WH AN DIVIDUAL THEY KNEW WAS GAY ENURAGG CLIENTS TO E HOMOPHOBIC RHETORIC. “WE ALL KNEW, BUT WASN’T IMPORTANT TO ANY OF ,” SHIRLEY TOLD THE DAILY BEAST. “OF THE THOANDS OF NVERSATNS WH ARTHUR THAT I HAD OM 1997 UNTIL EARLIER THIS YEAR, WE TALKED ABOUT THE ISSUE ONCE A PHILOSOPHIL SENSE, NOT ABOUT HIS PERSONAL BEHAVR. IT SEEMED IMPOLE TO TALK ABOUT THAT.”STONE SAYS FKELSTE “NEVER ONCE ACKNOWLEDGED HE WAS GAY.” HE KEPT BS AND PRIVATE LIFE SEPARATE, HE NEVER TALKED TO REPORTERS, HE ED AN ASSUMED NAME WHEN HE CHECKED TO HOTELS, SO PUBLICY AVERSE THAT FEW PHOTOS OF HIM EVEN EXIST. IT’S “FAIR NJECTURE” TO ATTRIBUTE HIS ELIVE BEHAVR TO A NEED TO PROTECT HIS LIFE CHOIC, SAYS STONE.IN DECEMBER 2004, AFTER AN ANTI-GAY REFERENDUM ON THE BALLOT OH BOOSTED GOP TURNOUT ENOUGH TO ARGUABLY ST DEMOCRAT JOHN KERRY THE STATE, AND THE PRINTIAL ELECTN, FKELSTE QUIETLY MARRIED HIS LONGTIME PARTNER A CIVIL CEREMONY. A STATEMENT SOME MONTHS LATER ANNOUNCG THE MARRIAGE WAS FOLLOWED BY ANOTHER ANNOUNCEMENT THAT FKELSTE WAS PLANNG TO SPEARHEAD A “STOP HILLARY NOW” DRIVE AHEAD OF HER 2006 SENATE REELECTN, AND THAT WOULD BE MOLED ON THE SWIFT BOAT VETERANS FOR TTH MPAIGN THAT HAD HELPED RAIL KERRY.FORMER PRINT BILL CLTON STEPPED TO THE AY, SAYG, “EHER THIS GUY BELIEV HIS PARTY IS NOT SER AND HE’S TOTALLY MACHIAVELLIAN OR HE MAY BE BLD BY SELF-LOATHG,” AN OBV REFERENCE TO FKELSTE BEG GAY A PARTY THAT GAS VOT BY BEG ANTI-GAY. CLTON UGHT HELL FOR HIS REMARK. THE DAILY NEWS LIKENED TO KERRY’S ATTEMPT TO TERJECT VICE PRINT CHENEY’S GAY DGHTER TO THE FAL PRINTIAL BATE 2004 WHEN THE NDIDAT WERE ASKED IF THEY BELIEVE HOMOSEXUALY IS A CHOICE.“IF YOU WERE TO TALK TO DICK CHENEY’S DGHTER, WHO IS A LBIAN, SHE WOULD TELL YOU THAT SHE’S BEG WHO SHE WAS, SHE’S BEG WHO SHE WAS BORN AS,” KERRY REPLIED. THE MENT WAS MEANT TO LL OUT THE REPUBLINS FOR THEIR HYPOCRISY, BUT BACKFIRED POLILLY WHEN EVEN DEMOCRATS JOED REPUBLINS SEEG AS GRATUOLY EXPLOATIVE.   ATTUS WERE CHANGG, AND WAS EMED DIRTY POOL TO CHALLENGE FKELSTE ABOUT THE NTRADICTN BETWEEN HIS PRIVATE LIFE AND THE POLICS HE PRACTICED. HIS HEYDAY OVER, AND HIS REPUTATN SECURE AS A GROUNDBREAKG POLLSTER, FKELSTE WORKED MALY ABROAD HIS LATER YEARS, NCENTRATG ON NSERVATIVE NDIDAT ISRAEL, CLUDG PRIME MISTER NETANYAHU.IF HE HAD ANY REGRETS ABOUT HELPG ELECT NDIDAT WH ANTI-GAY RHETORIC AND ADS, HE KEPT THEM TO HIMSELF. “HE TOLD ME TMP TRIED TO HIRE HIM AND HE TURNED TMP DOWN,” SAYS SHIRLEY. “MAK SENSE, TMP IS PRETTY FAR OM A LIBERTARIAN OR A TRADNAL REPUBLIN. HE JT WOULDN’T WORK FOR ANYBODY.” BUT HE WORKED FOR A LOT OF SOMEBODI WHO VOTED TO PREVENT HIM OM MAKG A UNN WH THE MAN HE LOVED. ELEANOR CLIFT

But what is more important, he is most likely gay: You n see that he has a "ready to kiss" scene wh his adjutant Fkel, he go to fight wearg makp and "fabulo" uniform. Moskva River & Grand Kreml PalaceGay Rights and the Suatn RsiaThe UK Foreign Office reports that "Homosexualy is legal Rsia, but there is still tolerance among some sectns of the populatn.

" (read more here)The bt advice is for gay travelers to act and drs nservatively at all tim.

For safety, gay upl should not brg attentn to their relatnship public, for example, by holdg hands, even tourist areas, hotels or aware that hookg up wh guys via datg apps has risks. There have been s of homophobic people g the apps to lure gay men to meetgs at which they are attacked and robbed.

WHY THE GAY SUBPLOTS ‘THE LIGHTHOE’ AND ‘JOJO RABB’ DON’T GO FAR ENOUGH

Basil Cathedral - Red SquareGay SceneUnrstandably, Rsia's gay scene is low profile and rather discreet. Gay public displays of affectn is not very mon, but this smopolan Rsian pal cy may be gayer than you might thk.

Although Mosw don't have a dited 'Gay District', the cy's gay nightlife has bee more visible recent years. Many bars and rtrants host gay nights.

WHY THE GAY SUBPLOTS ‘THE LIGHTHOE’ AND ‘JOJO RABB’ DON’T GO FAR ENOUGH

'Gay-popular' bars and dance clubs n be found all around the Kreml - Central Statn MSK beg the most notable one. Tverskoy is great for sightseeg, the theatr and gay latt hotel als Mosw are listed on the Gay Mosw Hotels to See & DoRed Square (Krasnaya Ploshchad) - the heart of Mosw and the cy’s most famo tourist Kreml (Moskovsky Kreml) - a huge se wh The Diamond llectn the Armoury and several amazg church. Homosexualy is legal, although a vaguely-word 2013 law prohibs the promotn of ‘non-tradnal’ relatnships.