The past five years have wnsed an explosn of tert the histori of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer people the Soviet Unn and s succsor stat. This special issue extends our unrstandg of the history of queer experience the late Soviet Unn and s succsor stat. Its eight articl balance attentn between the Rsian “re” and republics on the “periphery” of the USSR: Geia, Kyrgyzstan, and Latvia. One article draws attentn to Italy, and t...
Contents:
- 1917 RSIAN REVOLUTN: THE GAY MUNY'S BRIEF WDOW OF EEDOM
- THE FILM PUT DON’T WANT THE WORLD TO SEE: FIREBIRD, A GAY LOVE STORY ABOUT FIGHTER PILOTS
- GAY THE USSR
- GAY WAR VETERAN SPEAKS OUT FOR EQUAL RIGHTS UKRAE'S ARY
- GAYS ARE NOT WILLGLY ACCEPTED THE RSIAN ARMY
- 'GAY TATTOO' CHECK FOR RSIAN ARY RECS KREML'S LATT CLAMPDOWN ON HOMOSEXUALY
1917 RSIAN REVOLUTN: THE GAY MUNY'S BRIEF WDOW OF EEDOM
Rsian tolerance of the gay muny was briefly terpted unr the Bolsheviks. * gay soviet army *
Image source, Olga KhoroshilovaImage ptn, Guts at the ceremony 1921 cross drsedIn January 1921 Rsian Baltic Fleet sailor Afanasy Shr anised an extraordary gay weddg Petrograd.
THE FILM PUT DON’T WANT THE WORLD TO SEE: FIREBIRD, A GAY LOVE STORY ABOUT FIGHTER PILOTS
Followg recent news that Rsia may revigorate Soviet law by jailg gays, a new report fds that young recs the Rsian army are beg forced to prostutn. The Gazeta newspaper reported that soldiers om an army ba... * gay soviet army *
He did not thk guts would e if had jt been a he gambled - rightly - that a proper weddg wh all the Rsian tradns, bread and salt, a blsg om the proud parents, and a ncert to follow, would be the time Rsia's gay muny was enjoyg a brief wdow of the October Revolutn 1917, the Bolsheviks scrapped and rewrote the untry's laws.
GAY THE USSR
Historil rmatn about the reprsn of gay men the Soviet Unn the wake of the ernment's re-crimalisatn of homosexualy 1933, after s crimalisatn 1922. Trigger warng for sexual vlence. * gay soviet army *
They produced two Crimal Cos - 1922 and 1926 - and an article prohibg gay sex was left off source, Central State Library of St PetersburgImage ptn, Rsian sailors wh young men drsed women's cloth, 1916But the weddg Petrograd (now St Petersburg) was not all seemed. The se was eventually closed and the "unter-revolutnari" got away wh nothg more than a to regnise 'one's own'Image source, Olga KhoroshilovaImage ptn, Apasha and Apashka, fashn ins of the NEP era, Lengrad, mid-1920sGay men had been part of a distct unrground muny Rsia long before the revolutn and they regnised each other by the "secret language" of St Petersburg, some wore red ti, or red shawls, onto which they would sew the back pockets of powred their fac and wore a lot of the revolutn, the heavily ma-up "silent film star look" beme more mastream and no longer jt a fashn for young gay more about the Rsian RevolutnThe upheaval of the revolutn and civil war brought hard tim to Rsia and gay men were not able to match the flamboyant cloth and luxury accsori favoured by some of their unterparts across but still persecutedThe Bolsheviks were directly fluenced by Magn Hirschfeld, a German scientist who found the Instute of Sexology Berl. Image source, Olga KhoroshilovaImage ptn, Hansi Sturm, a famo Berl drag queen of the although there may not have been an article relatg to gay sex the crimal s of the 1920s, the muny was still persecuted.
GAY WAR VETERAN SPEAKS OUT FOR EQUAL RIGHTS UKRAE'S ARY
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They poured out their souls, askg him to help them pe wh prsn and even to "cure their illns" letters and other documents show that members of the gay muny were credibly brave - some wore women's drs and rsets, wore their hair long and often looked like real women. There were two gay muni and they rarely first were the so-lled "aristocrats" - reprentativ of the creative telligentsia, nobl, officials, and officers of the Tsarist army and navy. Image source, Olga KhoroshilovaImage ptn, Members of the Petrograd gay muny's 'simple class'The other muny was "simple" (the name, evintly, was vented by the "aristocrats").
It nsisted of soldiers, sailors, clerks - people who had not been part of the fashnable St Petersburg salons before the revolutn and who were not wele guts of the "aristocrats" after the 1920s, German Travti theatre - which men drs as women and vice versa - beme popular among Soviet gay men. Before the revolutn, Leifert was a supplier to the imperial urt and he also ma stum for the dancers of the Marisky then all me to an endAfter Afanasy Shr's plot to ensnare "unter-revolutnari" wh his spectacular gay marriage ceremony, there were no more high-profile weddgs or arrts like this the 1920s. Although homosexualy was tolerated, the muny started to lose s eedom the source, Olga KhoroshilovaImage ptn, Rsian "Travti" theatre, 1910sIn July 1933, 175 gay men om different walks of life were arrted what me to be known as the Case of the Lengrad Homosexuals.
Petrograd, 1916-1917Those same assertns were repeated the early 1930s, as well as forced nfsns obtaed by the secret Case of the Lengrad Homosexuals led to the re-cln of the article outlawg homosexualy the new Crimal Co of 1934 and Rsia's short-lived tolerance of gay rights fally me to an Khoroshilova was speakg to BBC Rsian's Anna on this story.
GAYS ARE NOT WILLGLY ACCEPTED THE RSIAN ARMY
Viktor Pylypenko has bee a role mol for dozens of LGBT+ Ukraian war veterans and their supporters sce he anised their participatn two years ago Kyiv's largt ever gay pri march. * gay soviet army *
A gay Ukraian activist and soldier says LGBTQ+ muny members Kharkiv found Rsian soldiers a basement they e and took the soldiers Pilipanko told Israel Hayom, "This is our war, the Ukraians, but we have also been fightg as LGBTQ people, and I'm sure that the ras Kharkiv unrstood that. However the quote was wrten by one of the first nvicted homosexuals to be released, while imprisoned durg the 1970s, and as an exprsn by an mate, wishg for their own ath as an alternative to forced labour, we feel that the historil importance of this say outweighs what would other circumstanc be a crass parison. One theory currently popular among Mosw gays has that the adopted son of the leadg proletarian wrer, Maxim Gorky, was sced by a homosexual and that Gorky's personal petn to Stal led to the subsequent formal prohibn.
On 23 May 1934, Pravda and Izvtiya published an article by Gorky claimg, language remiscent of a polil trial, that homosexualy was the rult of pernic fluenc om the Wtern bourgeoisie and German fascism. Huge numbers of people who had not prevly been gay beme tegorised as ophchennye (l: crtfallen, grad, downst; also slang term for one who has been beaten up, raped and urated upon). “Passive homosexuals are not necsarily prisoners wh gay clatns”, wr Andrei Amal'rik the book Not of a dissint (Ann Arbor, 1982), “they are the unassertive, the timid, those who have lost a game of rds, those who have broken the mp of ethics.
Wh a day of s publitn, the Natnal Air Transport Agency (Rosaviatsiya) announced would open an vtigatn to “this ugly se” prsure om the regnal ernor, the rector of the Ulyanovsk Instute of Civil Aviatn, Sergei Krasnov, likened the ts’ suatn to Psy such an “unfivable” disgrace to veterans, he said, they uld be expelled, perhaps, even, tried unr Rsia’s ntroversial anti-homosexual laws.
'GAY TATTOO' CHECK FOR RSIAN ARY RECS KREML'S LATT CLAMPDOWN ON HOMOSEXUALY
Though homosexualy is no longer outright illegal -- and has not been nsired a mental disorr sce 1999 -- a stubbornly homophobic stra of natnalism persists, as evinced most recently by an anti-homosexual "propaganda" bill that is gag momentum the State Duma. Though homosexualy is no longer outright illegal — and has not been nsired a mental disorr sce 1999 — a stubbornly homophobic stra of natnalism persists, as evinced most recently by an anti-homosexual "propaganda" bill that is gag momentum the State Duma. The artist’s new book, Mosw, is an evotive but unembellished medatn on gay cisg the pal cy, featurg photographs of the public toilets near the Hermage Garns; the stairs to the riversi embankment by Mosw Universy; the Bolshoi Theater; and many other inic lotns.