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.
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‘BORN GAY THE SOVIET UNN, LIVG GAY RSIA’ MZA SS DOWN WH THE ANONYMO ARTIST BEHD THE QUEER ART PROJECT ‘PASHA’
The crease the number of visible gay and trans people is sometim treated as a cursy or a e for ncern by crics, but ’s not a surprise. It’s normal. * is the artist borns gay *
Homosexual acts are illegal Malaysia and punishable by f and up to 20 years prison.
You are young people, and I’m sure a lot of you are gay and progrsive, ” he said addrsg the dience. Gay men?
Every year, Gallup releas a survey of how many Amerins intify as lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr. “Three out of 10 women unr the age of 25 nsir themselv to be gay or transgenr.
* is the artist borns gay *
Everyone will be eher gay or trans or nonnformg or whatever the list of 50 or 60 different optns there are. ” The edian Bill Maher said on his show that by 2054, if we follow what he se as the current trajectory, “we will all be gay, ” addg that the rise the number of younger people intifyg as transgenr seemed spic. Bee of the fluence of Schorr put siarly Natnal Review: “To suggt that social suggtibily uld be playg a role the skyrocketg numbers of young girls’ exprsg their sire to bee mal, for example, is not of urse to say that gay and transgenr people would not exist whout the topics’ beg discsed the public square.
”This fear is based on an unrstandg of genr and sexualy as alarmgly agile, easily undone by a gay teacher or a trans TikTok fluencer. And so are homosexualy, bisexualy and beg ’s been an objective crease the number of visible L.