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Recent laws and polls reveal an uptick anti-gay sentiment, but paradoxilly, Rsians like their mic acts as mpy and flamboyant as possible.

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EUROVISN'S SERGEY LAZAREV: GAY LIFE EXISTS RSIA

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Image source, Getty ImagDpe his untry's ntroversial laws, Rsia's Eurovisn entrant says the LGBT muny will be weled to his untry if he ws the rights mpaigners have often cricised 2013 legislatn which means heavy f are hand out for people providg rmatn about homosexualy to unr Lazarev is the favoure to w, which means Rsia would host next year if that happens. "Gay life exists Rsia, " he tells source, Getty Imag"There is more talk and mours about problems than exist. "The law also allows Rsian thori to block accs to webs emed to promote Eurovisn Song Contt has a large LGBT followg around the 2014, a Rsian polician lled the Eurovisn Song Contt "a Europe-wi gay para" source, Getty ImagRecently, the Israeli entrant to Eurovisn, who's openly gay, cricised his treatment Rsia after an cint at Mosw Star says he had his passport ripped up ont of him when he entered the untry to perform.

"I had two performanc Mosw's gay clubs and the crowds were huge.

IN RSIAN POP CULTURE, IT'S 50 SHAS OF GAY

Gay-rights opponents say Elton John will brg a "hotbed of sodomy" to Rsia and are urgg a boytt of his December ncerts. So why do Rsians fd their own pop stars so normal? * sergey zverev gay *

Recent laws and polls reveal an uptick anti-gay sentiment, but paradoxilly, Rsians like their mic acts as mpy and flamboyant as possible.

Moiseev is an stutn and a hoehold favore, even though he's openly homosexual and most of his performanc are flamboyant even by the standards of a pri this Rsia, where only 16 percent of people say homosexuals should be accepted by society and where a new law aims to prevent publicly advotg "alternative" sexuali. Meanwhile, Philip Kirkorov, a staple of seemgly every Rsian "all star" pilatn and ncert, is not openly gay but he nohels generat much speculatn wh his amply applied, glamoro makp and diva personaly. After endg a brief marriage to an agg megastar named Alla Pugacheva, Rsia's answer to Barbra Streisand, two years ago he had a baby wh the help of an Amerin 's him sgg a dance remix of the Jewish song Hava Nagila, wrapped a fur shg and wh what appears to be the pelt of an entire yak on his head:Rsia has never been pecially tolerant, but has lately taken a turn toward outright ostracism of gays and bisexuals.

RSIAN GAY MICIANS — WHERE ARE THEY?

For me, this journey began 20 years ago, when a iend of me shared he was gay. Very few people at that time felt ee to discs their sexual orientatn; many stggled to e out or had no one around to e out to. * sergey zverev gay *

Holdg gay pri events, speakg fense of gay rights, or equatg gay and heterosexual relatnships n now rult f of up to $31, whereas flamboyant artists might be margalized other, siarly nservative natns, Rsians heartily embrace performers that embody anythg other than the untry's avowed heteronormative ials.

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