Apart om activists prottg Mosw and Sat Petersburg, most gay Rsians have attempted to mask their inty, makg difficult for Wterners to know what ’s really like to be gay Rsia. But one gay Rsian teenager is changg this...
Contents:
- ‘BORN GAY THE SOVIET UNN, LIVG GAY RSIA’ MZA SS DOWN WH THE ANONYMO ARTIST BEHD THE QUEER ART PROJECT ‘PASHA’
- THE FILM PUT DON’T WANT THE WORLD TO SEE: FIREBIRD, A GAY LOVE STORY ABOUT FIGHTER PILOTS
- WHO CONTROLS A GAY RSIAN TEEN-AGER’S STORY?
- PUT’S PRI? SIX FAMO GAY SONS OF RSIA
- MEET THE GAY RSIAN TEENAGER USG TWTER TO COMBAT HOMOPHOBIA
- YOUNG AND GAY PUT'S RSIA
- GAY MAN RSIA FORCED TO HIDG OVER YOUTUBE TERVIEW
‘BORN GAY THE SOVIET UNN, LIVG GAY RSIA’ MZA SS DOWN WH THE ANONYMO ARTIST BEHD THE QUEER ART PROJECT ‘PASHA’
In recent years, there has been a growg number of artistic ventur about the liv of LGBTQ+ people Rsia. One of them is the art project PASHA. Though he don’t reveal his real name or the tails of his bgraphy, the artist behd the project regularly publish new works on Instagram unr the handle @go_pasha_go. The acunt’s b scrib the thor as an “Anonymo Artist. Born gay the Soviet Unn, livg gay Rsia.” And his works range om llag of Soviet policians and Disney characters alongsi homophobic slurs, to anonymized self-portras, and a batn “LGBT USSR” flag. Mza ss down wh the thor of the art project PASHA to fd out the story behd the works. * gay boys of russia *
Born gay the Soviet Unn, livg gay Rsia. ” And his works range om llag of Soviet policians and Disney characters alongsi homophobic slurs, to anonymized self-portras, and a batn “LGBT USSR” flag.
THE FILM PUT DON’T WANT THE WORLD TO SEE: FIREBIRD, A GAY LOVE STORY ABOUT FIGHTER PILOTS
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. * gay boys of russia *
“I had the ia of makg works about gay them a long time ago. “To talk about topics of bullyg, homophobia, self-acceptance, as well as about [beg] forced to wear masks and hi your real self, ” he says. The childhood imag are displayed alongsi anti-gay sults; words and phras the artists “heard om his peers” back the days when he ed to watch Disney rtoons on TV.
“The rtoons really helped me to pe wh external aggrsn and were a form of pism, ” he art project also clus three seri of portra photographs spired by homophobic name-llg and not passed school, tled “Pedik” (“Fag”), “Baba” (“Sissy”), and “Goluboy! ” — a slang term for a gay man).
”At the same time, the artist unrsr that the e of homophobic slurs his works isn’t an attempt to rid the sults of their negative nnotatns or “reclaim” them for himself. And I don’t thk I will ever be able to ll myself that, ” he tells of the few bgraphil tails the artist reveals is that he was “born gay the Soviet Unn.
WHO CONTROLS A GAY RSIAN TEEN-AGER’S STORY?
The procs of enterg the gay club Голубая Устрица remd me of a speakeasy om the 1920s. The bar is shroud secrecy and anonymy, but stead of beg filled wh roarg revelers, the atmospheric vibe was nothg short of prsg. Those who wish to party secure a... * gay boys of russia *
” Asked about what was like to grapple wh queer inty durg this perd, he says that he didn’t e across any “mastream homoerotic lerature” until he was at least 20 years old.
” After years of anti-gay bullyg and “teenage experimentg, ” the artist says he me to unrstand his sexualy “relatively late. He attribut this to a “wave of negativy the media, ” as well as the “gay propaganda” law troduced 2013. I’m gay.
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PUT’S PRI? SIX FAMO GAY SONS OF RSIA
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“Beg gay was a crimal offence. ” Rebane knew he was gay at the age of ne. ”Remarkably for a film wh such overtly gay ntent, several exterr scen were filmed Mosw.
“After that, ” adds Prr, “there was a plat about beg ‘homosexual propaganda’. At a lol church, he met a gay uple, two elrly ary veterans who were raisg two adopted boys.
They promised to shelter him, to fix him up wh a uple of gay lawyers who would handle his asylum se, and even, acrdg to the Rsian prs acunts, to pay for him to attend Harvard. Thori would perm her to meet wh him only the prence of Rsian nsular officials and the boy’s gay lawyers. The boy had met a gay uple through a lol L.
MEET THE GAY RSIAN TEENAGER USG TWTER TO COMBAT HOMOPHOBIA
The Rsians, the lawyers told me, ma clear that beg homosexual—which they believed the boy had bee unr the fluence of Amerins—did not f their fn of “well.
YOUNG AND GAY PUT'S RSIA
He has moved out of the group home and wh the gay uple om the Kalamazoo L. ” The lead paragraph of the Washgton Post’s article ced a “former participant’s cisn to stay wh a gay uple”—an assertn that the paper repeated the followg day an eloquent edorial on Rsian homophobia, xenophobia, and rptn.
A story the Tim stated that the program was ncelled “after a teenage Rsian boy who beiend a gay uple sought asylum the Uned Stat.
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.
GAY MAN RSIA FORCED TO HIDG OVER YOUTUBE TERVIEW
Channel 4 News lists below six, of the many, gay Rsians that Vladimir Put should be proud of:.