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Contents:

• CISG PAST: PHOTOGRAPHER YEVGENIY FIKS RURRECTS MOSW’S FOTTEN GAY HISTORY
• GAY CISG MOSW (CY)
• THE 5 BEST MOSW GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS MOSW
• MOSW: GAY MOSW
• GAY THE USSR
• GAY CISE STAND-OFF WH RSIAN ARMY
• STARCYPARISMENUHOTELS · LUXURYHOTELS · MID-RANGEHOTELS · BUDGETON TODAYBARSLBIAN BARSDANCE CLUBSCISE CLUBSSNASSHOPSMASSAGECAFéSSERVICCY GUIGAY MAPTOURSSTARCY

CISG PAST: PHOTOGRAPHER YEVGENIY FIKS RURRECTS MOSW’S FOTTEN GAY HISTORY

Homophobia has never been a “better” state Rsia than is today. The thori did have to adm was a hate crime and to acknowledge Rsia’s homophobia problem; but this is a problem that the ernment themselv have exacerbated wh the recent troductn of a new natnwi law “agast the propaganda of homosexualy”.

Rsian history do not, however, prent an unterpted le of hellish homophobia. The Bolsheviks legalised homosexualy soon after seizg power 1917, at the same time as tablishg equal rights for women. And, although homosexualy was banned the Thirti as part of Stalist retrenchment, the Soviet landspe did acmodate spac of social dissent and revolutn which gay men uld exprs their sexualy together.

The spac — the cy’s hidn topography of gay life — have recently been brought to light the work of New York-based Rsian photographer Yevgeniy Fiks.

GAY CISG MOSW (CY)

Fiks’s photographs seem to distance the thor om Soviet, and specifilly, Stalist, tim, and to reclaim the public space for a different versn of history (not one much promoted official versns of the Soviet past) and to reclaim homosexualy om today’s horrifilly homophobic climate. Nora’s ia has been fluential Holot studi as a term to scribe plac of extermatn and is strikg that the plac photographed by Fiks feel pletely empty and abandoned, rercg the sense of the disappearance and silencg of the victims of homophobia.

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To e Suatnist termology, gay men were rryg out a détournement of the areas and symbols of revolutn — a sort of satiril, subversive reappropriatn that monstrated that there was no real nflict between munist iology and alternative sexual orientatns. The current spread of far-right, homophobic sentiments nnot be overlooked and marked down as jt another effect of the years of munism; stead mt be seen as part of the failed transn to palism.

MOSW: GAY MOSW

If homosexualy had been banned Soviet Rsia, anti-munist liberals would have a perfect argument, lkg homophobia and the Soviet past; but wasn’t, or at least not ially.

More central to ntemporary arguments around gay rights are Stal’s reprsns. In fact some mentators argue that the current disput aren’t strictly between homosexuals and heterosexuals, but are rather products of a nflict between two different versns of homosexualy — “Soviet” and “Wtern.

” After Stal banned the mid-Thirti — a letter of prott wrten to the Soviet lear by openly gay Brish munist Harry Whyte is clud Fiks’s book — disurs around homosexualy Rsia beme eply tertwed wh the practice of male-only sex, on a huge sle, the gulag.

GAY THE USSR

The nsequent taboo attached to homosexual inti prevents them om beg seen as somethg “natural” Rsia. Unlike the rtrictns Stal placed on women’s rights, the ban on homosexualy was not repealed unr Khshchev and had to wa until 1993 to be overturned. Although homosexualy is not beg banned aga, practil terms current ernment policy puts gay men and women back the ghetto, enuragg homophobia and hate crime, all orr to prop up Put’s wang populary by chasg after some illory sense of “uny” and to distract and splter the opposn that challenged his thory the protts of wter 2011.

GAY CISE STAND-OFF WH RSIAN ARMY

Out and about: gay nightlife Mosw.

The Harriman Instute is pleased to prent the exhib 'Mosw: Gay Cisg S of the Soviet Capal, 1920s-1980s' featurg a seri of works photographs by artist Yevgeniy Fiks.

"What is the attu of bourgeois society to homosexuals? Inpenntly of the laws, palism is agast homosexualy by virtue of s entire class-based tenncy. 'Mosw' documents gay cisg s Soviet Mosw, om the early 1920s to the USSR's dissolutn the early 1990s.

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Kpskaya) are among the gay cisg s of Soviet-era Mosw photographed this seri. Thoands of Mosv pass through the visible spac of memoratn every day, whout knowledge of their signifince Soviet gay history. The openg receptn on September 4 will feature a performative readg by actor Chris Dunlop of the 1934 letter to Joseph Stal by the Brish Communist and Mosw rint Harry Whyte, which he attempts to fend homosexualy om a Marxist-Lenist perspective the face of the mpaign of mass arrts that swept Mosw and Lengrad gay circl 1933-1934.

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