Rsian Activist Charged For Pro-Gay Prott
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ON THE MOSW METRO AND BEG GAY
Dmry Kuzm reflects on his experienc as a gay man livg Rsia and Rsia's plited relatnship wh homosexualy. * dmitry project runway gay *
Gunnar’s mother is cute (and totally don’t need a boob job, du), while Dmry’s loved one is a hot blon…iend (providg no help whatsoever vis-à-vis the lgerg qutn of whether the melancholy Belasian is gay, straight or jt a never-nu). E., those who, bee of some character weakns, the type of crime they mted (not necsarily homosexualy, for which nvictns were actually rare), or some fatal nfluence of events, were rced to the posn of sexual slav. A cursory review of rears’ ments to news ems scribg how some obscure elected official yet another Rsian regn has h upon the origal ia of banng “propaganda of homosexualy” reveals a near-unanimo rponse, namely “our shty ernment for once has done somethg right.
The gay rights movement around the world has promoted a basic ia: we want to show society that we are human begs like everyone else. It is therefore els to say here: “I’m gay and I have rights. ” What you n say stead is “I’m a well-known wrer and, bis, I’m gay and I have rights.
” Or “I’m a proment scientist, and, bis, I’m gay and I have rights. ” Or else, “I’m a famo athlete, and, bis, I’m gay and I have rights, ” and so on. I often wonr what keeps those men om endg the chara—sce their close associat are all the know, anyway—and clarg openly: “I’m gay.
MEET DMRY ISAKOV, LGBT ACTIVIST CHARGED UNR RSIA'S ANTI-GAY LAW
I’m gay, and every attempt by the thori, the prs, and society to nigrate gays is directed not at some exotic prancg queer, whose image has been dbbed to mass nscns by the skillful splicg of footage om Wtern Pri Paras, and not at some browbeaten ‘low one’ at a prison mp, but at me personally.
I do not ask a long-servg member of the Mosw Cy Council wh whom our stunt days some twenty years ago I ed to chat sually at Mosw’s early gay clubs that so much rembled village Ho of Culture why he don’t raise his voice agast the law banng the mythil “propaganda of homosexualy” the pal after siar municipal laws have been passed St. On the other hand, what would one’s elrly mother fd easier to say: “My son is gay” or “My son has jt published a book the bt Rsian poetry seri and clus many poems about him beg gay? ” Who knows, perhaps a different nversatn about some other gay man, a kd elrly iend of my mother might say one day: “Well, you know, Mrs.
Kuzm’s son is also gay, and yet he is a famo thor, he has jt published a book of poetry. But at least a certa segment of Rsian lerary circl, among some rears, anti-gay rhetoric has now bee unthkable— the public doma, any event. I always mentn this story, along wh several equally awkward on, when I’m asked what kd of discrimatn I have experienced as a gay man.