Gay-rights opponents say Elton John will brg a "hotbed of sodomy" to Rsia and are urgg a boytt of his December ncerts. So why do Rsians fd their own pop stars so normal?
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- FILIP - GAY-LGBT SHORT FILM BY NATHALIE ÁLVAREZ MéN | WOOMOVIES
- IN RSIAN POP CULTURE, IT'S 50 SHAS OF GAY
- FILIP IS GAY DAY
FILIP - GAY-LGBT SHORT FILM BY NATHALIE ÁLVAREZ MéN | WOOMOVIES
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IN RSIAN POP CULTURE, IT'S 50 SHAS OF GAY
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It stands to reason, therefore, that both men would also raise objectns among the Kreml tablishment, which has banned "gay propaganda" a much-cricized crackdown on lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) rights.
Y to Boris Moiseyev -- and Filip Kirkorov, Sergei Zverev, and a host of other male performers who, if not openly gay, uld be mistaken for lookg the part. It's a suatn that has perplexed observers like mic cric and activist Artemy Trosky, who says attempts by Rsian Print Vladimir Put to sweep gayns off the map is at odds wh what appears to be a posively thrivg gay athetic the untry's popular culture.
"The artists like Nikolai Baskov, Filipp Kirkorov, Sergei Zverev -- the way they look, the way they perform, is absolutely mpy and a very, very gay style, " says Trosky. "At the same time, of urse, we now have state-sponsored homophobia all over the Rsian Feratn.
FILIP IS GAY DAY
The succs of all those mpy sgers probably says that Rsian society is not as homophobic as Put believ is. Pugacheva and her effemate terie may strike many Wtern observers as pluckg a fe gay note.
If anythg, John may be facg a harsher backlash the Wt, where some gay-rights activists have cricized him for proceedg wh his Rsian tour at a time when many artists wh a strong gay fan base, cludg Cher, Lady Gaga, and Madonna, have eher nceled appearanc or ed their ncerts as a platform for cricizg the Rsian anti-LGBT legislatn. The impendg Wter Olympics, to beg the Rsian cy of Sochi Febary, has only creased the lls for foreign athlet, artists, and tourists to take a prcipled stance agast Rsia and Put -- a man whose growg llectn of shirtls photographs, has been acknowledged, have set off some homoerotic alarm bells of their own. John, whose mic has never touched on explicly gay issu, says he prefers to keep his activism off the stage.
That, says Trosky, is what ultimately rais objectns among Rsians who might happily flock to see Nikolai Baskov or Valery Leontyev, might even fend Rsia's gay cultural ins like Tchaikovsky and Rudolf Nureyev, but shake their heads at Elton John. It's not the gay inty, he says, 's the gay activism -- somethg that Rsians see as sidly Wtern.