Life for LGBTQ people Ukrae had been improvg, while Rsian Print Vladimir Put has systematilly attacked gay and transgenr people.
Contents:
- WATCH KKD’S GAY SON LEAD LGBTQ+ PROTT LONDON
- PUT AS GAY IN? MEM AS A TACTIC RSIAN LGBT+ ACTIVISM
- “PUT GAY DRS UP” MAK A POLIL STATEMENT
- PUT SHAR THOUGHTS ON SHOWERG WH GAY MEN AND MENSTAL CYCL
- THE GAY WORLD WAR? INSI PUT’S WARPED REALY
- ‘PUT’S GAY DRS-UP’ LETS YOU STICK IT TO VLADIMIR
- RSIA'S VLADIMIR PUT 'IS GAY' CLAIMS NTROVERSIAL NEW BGRAPHY
WATCH KKD’S GAY SON LEAD LGBTQ+ PROTT LONDON
The Gay Clown Put meme was repurposed by hackers wh an anti-war msage all the lors of the rabow. * putin gay dressing *
In December 2022, Rsia expand s existg “gay propaganda” law to exert ntrol over public discsns and narrativ surroundg non-heterosexual relatnships and inti. Notg the difficulty g out as gay, the son of the celebrated Ghanaian broadster said he had gone past that stage and felt no need to nform to anyone’s standards terms of his sexualy.
Viewers hopg to stream their favore Bulgarian televisn shows Sunday eveng were stead treated to the Gay Clown Put meme on their TV, the Bulgarian Natnal Televisn, Bloomberg, and Bulgaria On Air were all hacked and had their streams replaced wh the meme pictg the Rsian print makp agast the backdrop of a rabow Pri flag.
PUT AS GAY IN? MEM AS A TACTIC RSIAN LGBT+ ACTIVISM
In 2016, imag of Rsian Print Vladimir Put’s face wearg make-up and superimposed on a gay pri flag were banned Rsia on the grounds of givg “the imprsn of a non-standard sexual orientatn” of Put. This terventn by the... * putin gay dressing *
Acrdg to Amnty Internatnal and Know Your Meme, Gay Clown Put first appeared 2013 rponse to a Rsian law that banned the "propaganda of homosexualy among mors. Dpe s ban 2017, the meme has proven a popular form of prott agast the Rsian print recent years, wh folks creatg their own versns of Put as a gay man. The Rsian state and s lears are equently put to nversatn wh homosexualy, but the valence of the disurse shifts by first sectn of this chapter exam the image closer tail, nductg a semtic analysis of how a picture be memetic, able to travel across space and time.
We nsir the subject of the gay clown image self, Footnote 3 Rsian Print Vladimir Put, as a cril space wh the terpretive polysemy of prott.
We emphasize that the explic shift om behavr (fg sexual acts between subjects) to performance and imag (pecially those suggtive of Put’s “non-standard sexual orientatn”) recenters the genr bate wh an thorarian range, reifyg homophobic propaganda and jtifyg anti-gay state policy.
“PUT GAY DRS UP” MAK A POLIL STATEMENT
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Footnote 4, Footnote 5 On Augt 23, 2013, a Getty photographer at a prott outsi the Rsian embassy Madrid photographed a protter wh a sign pictg Put’s face bold make-up superimposed over a rabow flag wh the words “STOP HOMOFOBIA” [sic] scribed on his forehead.
PUT SHAR THOUGHTS ON SHOWERG WH GAY MEN AND MENSTAL CYCL
Footnote 6 Here, the image appears (sans the scriptn “STOP HOMOFOBIA”) on a poster, above a ptn readg ( Rsian): “Electors of Put are like.
”Footnote 7 While the Mistry of Jtice listg oms “obscene vobulary” om the origal quote, the implitns of the msage’s polil lcul are clear: Put voters are homosexual and Put’s their man. Footnote 9 Iteratns of the Put meme which rporate text, such as those wh “STOP HOMOFOBIA” stenciled across Put’s forehead, also ploy a strategy of trangement.
More recently, the image ronat wh strategi such as “queerg the Queen” that have been documented at LGBT+ pri paras the UK; both functn as an example of the ntradictory existence of “shared” and “modifyg” gay inti wh the space of public activism (Ammaturo 2016; Armstrong 2002) such, votn of the pop art athetic ntribut to the subversive qualy of the meme two ways.
THE GAY WORLD WAR? INSI PUT’S WARPED REALY
”Disurs of Sexualy and Rsian PolicsThis sectn suat the Put as gay clown meme wh a material and symbolic ntext, explorg the way which the meme shifts across the four realms intified Table 9.
Fally, we fe Realm IV as “Heteronormative-homophobic Opposn Polics, ” where we explore how opposn to Put enjos the nmnatn of homosexualy public disurse. We see the meme of Put as a gay clown shift between the last two realms—“Queerg the Ristance” and “Heteronormative-homophobic Opposn Polics”—movg om the material level Wtern protts 2013 to the symbolic level of the viral image, and back to the material/legal level where is banned Rsia I: Homophobia Rsian Polics and the Heteronormative StateIn this sectn, we trace the way which issu of queer inty are prent on material and symbolic levels Rsian polics.
” This discursive regime is anti-homosexualy and pro-Rsia/pro-Put, as evinced by the 2010 and 2013 “anti-homosexual propaganda” laws and the media disurse surroundg the sexualy of Put and his polil opponents.
‘PUT’S GAY DRS-UP’ LETS YOU STICK IT TO VLADIMIR
First, we foc on the material levels: the way which the ernment attempts to erase the phenomenon of gayns om public space and the public sphere. This is a send maniftatn of the relatnships Realm I, the heteronormative state: g an attack on homosexualy by proxy orr to disparage polil opponents.
RSIA'S VLADIMIR PUT 'IS GAY' CLAIMS NTROVERSIAL NEW BGRAPHY
Th, he rejects the characterizatn of himself, not the characterizatn of gayns as scenars unrsre the stabily of the discursive regime of sexual cizenship operatg Put’s Rsia.
Romas (2017) not that there are recurrent homosexual and transvte scenars, which “bluntly manipulate the ncepts of masculy and sexual viancy as part of their anti-adversarial rhetoric bee domatn for a patriarchal culture n only be experienced as a form of emasculatn” (p.