A productn of Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Oneg has ed a ntroversy over Rsia’s anti-gay laws. But should art get volved polics? Jason Farago reports.
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THE MET’S STORM OVER GAY RIGHTS, POLICS AND PUT
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Earlier this month an terviewer asked Vladimir Put about Rsia’s dranian crackdown on the rights of gays and lbians, who have suffered vlent reprisals sce the passage of a discrimatory law this May.
EUGENE ONEG, A RSIAN GAY GENTLEMAN
Put fend the law, but sisted he had no problems wh gay people – and chose a surprisg example to prove .
“They say that Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was a homosexual, ” the Rsian print said. Opera pani plan their schl years advance, of urse, but now the Met fds self mountg a productn by a gay Rsian poser, featurg two noted Put supporters.
What rponsibili do the Met, as an arts anizatn, have to global gay rights and to the polil realm more generally?