Vladimir Put's anti-gay propaganda laws have sought to stifle homosexual exprsn - but Sochi's openg ceremony featured some of the most proment homosexuals ternatnal history.
Contents:
- 'WE'RE NOT HIDG': GAY AND LBIAN RSIANS SAY A CULTURAL SHIFT IS UNRWAY
- PUT’S PRI? SIX FAMO GAY SONS OF RSIA
- GAY MAN RSIA FORCED TO HIDG OVER YOUTUBE TERVIEW
'WE'RE NOT HIDG': GAY AND LBIAN RSIANS SAY A CULTURAL SHIFT IS UNRWAY
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The untry as a whole has a reputatn of profound homophobia. Vladimir Put’s anti-gay propaganda laws have sought to stifle homosexual exprsn – but Sochi’s openg ceremony featured some of the most proment homosexuals ternatnal history. The Sochi 2014 Wter Olympics openg ceremony referenced proment gay Rsians om the field of lerature, ballet, mic and film – cludg Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Vaslav Nijsky and Sergei Eisenste.
PUT’S PRI? SIX FAMO GAY SONS OF RSIA
Channel 4 News lists below six, of the many, gay Rsians that Vladimir Put should be proud of:. Dpe long beg regard as historil fact that Tchaikovsky was gay, the Rsian culture mister recently nied this was the se. The script for a film about Tchaikovsky’s life, which is beg ma wh Rsian ernment fundg, was reported to have been rewrten to exclu any suggtn that the poser was gay.
He was a ntroversial character Rsia who phed the boundari of what was permissible ballet, cludg referenc to homosexualy and masturbatn. Diaghilev was openly gay, and was scribed by the poser Nilas Nabokov as “perhaps the first grand homosexual who asserted himself and was accepted as such by society”. Battlhip Potemk director Sergei Eisenste, a pneer of the e of montage film, is believed to have been gay, though he was married to a woman until his ath 1948.
The film Eisenste explored his homosexual clatns. The subject of Eisenste films himself had homosexual tennci. A movement Rsia is seekg Ivan the Terrible’s nonisatn – his homosexual leangs are jt one barrier to the Rsian Orthodox Church agreeg to this.
GAY MAN RSIA FORCED TO HIDG OVER YOUTUBE TERVIEW
Chechen lear: 'We don't have any gays'.
A gay Rsian man is hidg after Rsian thori opened a crimal se over a YouTube vio which he was terviewed by children, a se that has drawn attentn om human-rights activists. Maxim Pankratov told CNN he was facg threats and a potentially lengthy prison sentence for appearg the vio discsg his life as an openly gay man Rsia.
The vio, origally posted on the Rsian-language “Real Talk” YouTube channel, featured four children terviewg Pankratov, 22, about his life and his inty as a gay man. The format of the vio is simple: Pankratov and his terviewers face each other chairs agast a blue background, and the children ask simple qutns: “How did you know you were gay?