On the eve of the Sochi Wter Olympics, we go to hidg wh the newly persecuted gay men and women of Vladimir Put's eedom-ee Rsia
Contents:
- MEET THE GAY RSIAN TEENAGER USG TWTER TO COMBAT HOMOPHOBIA
- 'WE'RE NOT HIDG': GAY AND LBIAN RSIANS SAY A CULTURAL SHIFT IS UNRWAY
- PUT’S PRI? SIX FAMO GAY SONS OF RSIA
- INSI THE IRON CLOSET: WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE GAY PUT'S RSIA
- RSIA TO GAYS: SHUT UP AND DISAPPEAR
- GAY RSIA
MEET THE GAY RSIAN TEENAGER USG TWTER TO COMBAT HOMOPHOBIA
Apart om activists prottg Mosw and Sat Petersburg, most gay Rsians have attempted to mask their inty, makg difficult for Wterners to know what ’s really like to be gay Rsia. But one gay Rsian teenager is changg this... * gay russian 14 *
Vladimir Put’s anti-gay propaganda laws have sought to stifle homosexual exprsn – but Sochi’s openg ceremony featured some of the most proment homosexuals ternatnal history.
'WE'RE NOT HIDG': GAY AND LBIAN RSIANS SAY A CULTURAL SHIFT IS UNRWAY
Vladimir Put's anti-gay propaganda laws have sought to stifle homosexual exprsn - but Sochi's openg ceremony featured some of the most proment homosexuals ternatnal history. * gay russian 14 *
The Sochi 2014 Wter Olympics openg ceremony referenced proment gay Rsians om the field of lerature, ballet, mic and film – cludg Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Vaslav Nijsky and Sergei Eisenste. Channel 4 News lists below six, of the many, gay Rsians that Vladimir Put should be proud of:.
PUT’S PRI? SIX FAMO GAY SONS OF RSIA
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Dpe long beg regard as historil fact that Tchaikovsky was gay, the Rsian culture mister recently nied this was the se. The script for a film about Tchaikovsky’s life, which is beg ma wh Rsian ernment fundg, was reported to have been rewrten to exclu any suggtn that the poser was gay.
He was a ntroversial character Rsia who phed the boundari of what was permissible ballet, cludg referenc to homosexualy and masturbatn.
Diaghilev was openly gay, and was scribed by the poser Nilas Nabokov as “perhaps the first grand homosexual who asserted himself and was accepted as such by society”.
INSI THE IRON CLOSET: WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE GAY PUT'S RSIA
Battlhip Potemk director Sergei Eisenste, a pneer of the e of montage film, is believed to have been gay, though he was married to a woman until his ath 1948. The film Eisenste explored his homosexual clatns.
RSIA TO GAYS: SHUT UP AND DISAPPEAR
The subject of Eisenste films himself had homosexual tennci. A movement Rsia is seekg Ivan the Terrible’s nonisatn – his homosexual leangs are jt one barrier to the Rsian Orthodox Church agreeg to this.
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GAY RSIA
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Petersburg who left Rsia after his parents threatened to sue his therapist who backed him receivg hormone therapy; and Ivan, 18, who is gay, half Rsian and half Ukraian, and “didn’t want to kill people.