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CELEBRATG THE GAY RSIAN CELEBRI HISTORY BOOKS TRIED TO ERASE
Instagram project Izvtnye Tetki is reclaimg Rsia’s gay history all s glory * gay russian grand dukes *
It’s difficult to learn about LGBTQ history a untry where the muny still stggl wh homophobia at all levels of society.
Most of the current rearch on the topic is still rried out by foreign scholars, and most of the the historil Rsian texts on homosexualy, even when wrten by proment scholars and wrers, are disregard.
GAY DATG ATHENS
Historian Dan Healey, whose 2001 book Homosexual Dire Revolutnary Rsia was translated to Rsian 2008, argu that spe several prohibive laws sexualy was nsirably ls regulated pre-revolutnary Rsia than elsewhere Europe at that time. Several rearchers claim that historil acunts show that before the 18th century, Rsian society held rather lenient views toward homosexualy, and that homophobia was at least part “imported” om Europe by Peter the Great — along wh European tradns food, archecture and fashn.
Some argue that was Peter’s father, Tsar Alexis, who first started persecutg gay people, but the first law that ma homosexualy illegal (ially only for men the army and navy) was signed by Peter 1716.
For civilians homosexualy was ma illegal 1835 — aga for men only.