As the wter Olympics opened Sochi amid ntroversy over Rsia's anti-gay laws, Tatiana Riabova and Oleg Riabov showed how official disurse Rsia brands "European sexual viancy" a natural rult of wtern mocratic velopment; and Rsia as the last bastn of "normalcy".
Contents:
- IN PICTUR: THE NEW FAC OF ‘GAYROPA’
- 'GAYROPA': CHALLENG AND HOP OF EUROPE'S LGBT+ REFUGE – PICTUR
- IN PICTUR: THE NEW FAC OF ‘GAYROPA’
- „FASCHISTEN“ UND „GAYROPA“
- 8 TOROS L "ARTE GAY" L MEO L PRADO QUE AYUDAN A ENTENR LA HISTORIA LA HOMOSEXUALIDAD EN EL ARTE
- THE CLE OF GAYROPA?
- 'GAYROPA': CHALLENG AND HOP OF EUROPE'S LGBT+ REFUGE – PICTUR
- ARTE GAY
- GAYROPA: RSIA, EUROPE AND QUEER LIFE
IN PICTUR: THE NEW FAC OF ‘GAYROPA’
In his photojournalism seri Gayropa, Bradley Secker profil dividuals om around the world who have ma the difficult cisn to migrate to Europe and claim asylum bee of their sexualy * arte gayropa *
"Gayropa" is a word often ed by Rsian thori to refer to Europe.
Faris outsi their office at "Queer Base" Vienna's gay-iendly district.
He was forcibly outed as gay at the age of 13, when he was ught havg sex wh a male iend. “Gayropa” is a disparagg name often ed by Rsian nservativ and officials to refer to Europe, signifyg both a lack of acceptance towards LGBTQ+ people, and a perceived separatn between east and wt terms of attus towards LGBTQ+ rights. The people are the oppose of victims, and they e their strength to move their liv forward, refg the term “Gayropa” as they do so.
'GAYROPA': CHALLENG AND HOP OF EUROPE'S LGBT+ REFUGE – PICTUR
In Pictur: The New Fac of ‘Gayropa’. "Gayropa" is a word often ed by Rsian thori to refer to Europe. It is meant to signify both Rsia's lack of acceptance of LGBTQ people and to distguish between the valu of East and Wt... * arte gayropa *
Many of those photographed have also faced discrimatn exile: xenophobia and racism om host societi (cludg the LGBTQ+ muny), and homophobia and transphobia om fellow asylum seekers and the lol populatn.
Origally om Raqqa, Syria, Hamoudi was forcibly outed as gay at the age of 13, when he was ught havg sex wh a male iend. Faris works at ‘Queer Base’ Vienna’s gay-iendly district.
IN PICTUR: THE NEW FAC OF ‘GAYROPA’
* arte gayropa *
This n range om excsive drkg and unprotected sex to the more extreme behavur, where migrants engage sex work, sometim lled “survival sex”, or bee the play thgs of predatory olr men lookg to explo their vulnerable mental and legal a rise of vlent homophobic attacks the UK and creasg natnalism and xenophobia across the rt of Europe, LGBTQ+ refuge want “Gayropa” to live up to s name, the fullt and most posive sense of the word. Origally om Dhaka, Banglash, Mir was a proment member of the gay muny.
Some like Hamoudi, Mir and Faris e om untri where their sexualy is crimalised, and others like Igor and Sergi grew up plac where homophobia has bee an creasgly polil topic recent years.
Homophobe und enfedliche Propaganda.
„FASCHISTEN“ UND „GAYROPA“
'Gayropa': Challeng and Hop of Europe's LGBT+ Refuge – Pictur. “Gayropa” is a disparagg name often ed by Rsian nservativ and officials to refer to Europe, signifyg both a lack of acceptance towards LGBTQ+ people, and a perceived separatn between... * arte gayropa *
M r Hwendung r Ukrae zu Europa hat Rsland homophobe und enfedliche Bilr verknüpft: "Und dann wird das ganze Land irgendwie zerstört durch die Toleranz und so was. Dafür existiert zum Beispiel r ssischen Sprache das Schimpfwort 'Gayropa', das 'schwule Europa'. Así fueron las relacn homosexual durante siglos en Occinte.
Pero, nque prohibida e visible para muchos, la homosexualidad fue reprentada forma nstante en la ptura y en la cultura.
Ese el ejercic que propone el Meo l Prado Madrid n motivo la celebración l Día Mundial l Orgullo Gay que tendrá lugar en la pal pañola entre el 23 jun y 2 jul. Navarro, curador la exposición, cómo ayudan a entenr la historia -muchas vec silencsa- la homosexualidad en el arte. Navarro, para reprentar la homosexualidad había que recurrir a temas la mología en los que hombr y mujer mantenían relacn amorosas n personas l mismo sexo.
8 TOROS L "ARTE GAY" L MEO L PRADO QUE AYUDAN A ENTENR LA HISTORIA LA HOMOSEXUALIDAD EN EL ARTE
Fuente la imagen, Meo l PradoPe a la permisividad su reprentación en os pacs rcidos, rervados a unos pos, la homosexualidad taba duramente stigada socialmente. Y la forma enentarse a la reprentación la homosexual diferente en el ptor aragonés a la l barro Rubens.
- San Sebastián, Guido Reni, 1617 - la imagen, Meo l PradoSemisnudo y n el cuerpo atravado por saetas o parte su martir, San Sebastián, soldado romano stigado por ser cristiano, visto en la actualidad o un ino l erotismo gay.
THE CLE OF GAYROPA?
"Al l Palazzo Rosso Génova, Osr Wil le di su primera poía homoeróti, al que hay en Londr, el cror Y Mishima le di amplias reflexn erótis. "No hemos querido hacer homoerotismo so narrar la historia la ntemplación lo homosexual a través las pturas", aña. Gayropa as geopolil weapon: Ukrae torn between European pravy and the tradnal valu fend by Rsia.
'GAYROPA': CHALLENG AND HOP OF EUROPE'S LGBT+ REFUGE – PICTUR
In recent years, the ncept of “Gayropa” has bee creasgly visible Rsian Inter sourc and is ed to characterize the European genr orr. The word gei (om the English “gay”) appeared the Rsian language only the early 1990s and is ed together wh goluboi, to refer to homosexual men. The notn of Gayropa has bee a means to fe Rsia’s place the morn world and plays an important role geopolil disurse and to legimize the powers that be.
Cricism of the bourgeois genr orr that featured Soviet propaganda durg the Cold War acts as another iologil source for the rejectn of Gayropa today. In nnectn wh this, wrers and mentators e phras such as “the blue plague” or “gay fascism”.
6 A programme screened on a major Rsian TV channel entled “The reprsive mory”7 had participants discsg “gay totalarianism”. Gayropa and the new msianism. By puttg a label on European civilizatn, the ncept of Gayropa helps to support the llective inty of Rsians.
ARTE GAY
For example: “How are Asians ferr to Europe wh their homos, their hypocrisy, their lonial disda for the rt of the world […] Be proud that you’re Asian; there is no pot beggg for regnn om Europeans”. The ncept of Gayropa not only creat symbolic borrs between Rsia and Europe, but ntribut to the fn of a new natnal ia.
For example, the director of the Instute for Polil Rearch, Sergei Markov, has noted that “ postmorn Europe, viatns such as homosexualy are nsired the norm. Rsia seems to be on a global missn to save humany om the generacy that threatens the wake of the gay revolutn.
In this way, the ncept of Gayropa is bound up wh a tradnal, perceived opposn between Rsia and Europe. Gayropa as a factor the legimatn of power Rsia.
GAYROPA: RSIA, EUROPE AND QUEER LIFE
The Gayropa narrative to affect ternal polics bee transformatns Europe are reported terms suggtg that they pose a threat to Rsia.
In March 2013, mister of foreign affairs Sergei Lavrov cricized the EU for promotg wtern valu – and the fence of the gay muny particular – as universal standards, and for imposg them on Rsia.
His opponents claimed that sentially, Navalny wholly pend upon gay activists for support.