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Contents:
- GAY LIFE STAL’S GULAG
- AM I GAY?
- HOW TO KNOW IF YOU ARE GAY
- STEP-BY-STEP INSTCTNS FOR SHOOTG YOUR SHOT WH GAY GUYS
GAY LIFE STAL’S GULAG
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Gay Erotic Stori. This terview troduc the work of acclaimed historian Dan Healey, who sheds light on how gay men survived the Soviet Gulag, their life afterwards and different attus the USSR to gay men and Healey, Profsor of Morn Rsian History at Oxford Universy, has explored the history of homosexualy tsarist and Soviet Rsia, the nature of masculy unr socialism, the problems of sexual disorrs and sexual vlence the USSR and the history of medice Stal’s Gulag. Healey is the thor of the only published monograph on the history of homosexualy Rsia: Homosexual Dire Revolutnary Rsia: The Regulatn of Sexual and Genr Gkov spoke to Dan Healey after the lnch of his latt book: Rsian Homophobia om Stal to do we know about gay/queer people Gulag?
AM I GAY?
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We know om FSB archiv and publicly accsible urt papers that homosexual mat of the Gulag were generally men aged between 25 and 50, most of them urban dwellers. That giv you a kd of snapshot of the posn of the group of people imprisoned for their homosexualy unr Article 154-a of the RSFSR Penal relatns between men were punishable by imprisonment of between three and five years, and sexual relatns between men wh the e of vlence or the subjugatn of one party to the other were punishable by imprisonment of between five and eight subjects of your book were not only people arrted unr Article 154-a.
You talk about homosexual relatns between prisoners nvicted of other offenc. Dan Healey's latt book: Rsian Homophobia om Stal to the first place, we need to be reful when we talk about what meant to be a homosexual the Gulag.
HOW TO KNOW IF YOU ARE GAY
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We don’t know for certa whether the prisoners analysed were actually gay or lbian, or whether they jt acmodated themselv to a particular culture.
We still don’t really know why Stal cid to crimalise homosexualy. Soviet lears feared that homosexual groups uld make a pact wh Germany or other powers to stabilise the n, however, offer a circumstantial explanatn about the polil nature of the cisn.
It’s known that 1933 Genrikh Yagoda, the head of the Soviet secret police, wrote a letter to Stal which he said that “homosexuals are beg arrted, but we have realised that we don’t have an article to charge them unr.
STEP-BY-STEP INSTCTNS FOR SHOOTG YOUR SHOT WH GAY GUYS
” Gays had their own groups, and this put the Soviet ernment on edge.
Also, “outg”, the public disclosure of rmatn about gays’ sexual orientatn, uld, an atmosphere of public homophobia, bee a potential risk for blackmail by foreign telligence polil terpretatn of this “crime” was the reason for the severy of sentenc unr Article 154-a, as “polils” were “socially hostile” mat the Soviet prison mp system.
Homosexuals were treated even more harshly than prisoners nvicted unr Article 58 (anti-revolutnary activy), as everyone knew that “polil” charg were often fabrited. This leads to the ncln that those nvicted unr Article 154-a were the lowt of the low the prison system, although homosexual crimals were treated ls harshly, pecially unr Stal.