‘Couldn’t believe I was seeg ’: Home movi offer rare glimpse of gay life St. Louis 1945 | STLPR

Contents:

• SSIAN GAY HOME VIO
• RSIA TO GAYS: SHUT UP AND DISAPPEAR
• RSIAN GAY PERD DRAMA WS BT PROJECT AWARD AT SERI MANIA
• ‘COULDN’T BELIEVE I WAS SEEG ’: HOME MOVI OFFER RARE GLIMPSE OF GAY LIFE ST. LOUIS 1945
• GAY MAN RSIA FORCED TO HIDG OVER YOUTUBE TERVIEW
• RSIA RAIDS GAY PEOPLE'S HOM
• ANTI-GAY VIRAL VIO STIRS OUTRAGE AHEAD OF RSIAN REFERENDUM
• YOUTUBE TAK DOWN ANTI-GAY AD AFTER OUTRAGE RSIA

SSIAN GAY HOME VIO

Image source, RtersThe ntroversial Rsian ban agast promotg so-lled "gay propaganda" looks set to be extend to all move reprents a tougheng of an existg 2013 law, which mak providg rmatn about beg LGBT to children a crimal nvicted face large f for promotg what Rsia lls "non-tradnal sexual relatns" ial approval of the extensn was voted through by the Rsian State Duma unanimoly. Unr the proposal, rmatn about "non-tradnal liftyl" or "the rejectn of fay valu" would be nsired legally the same as pornography, the promotn of vlence, or stokg racial, ethnic and relig also bans the "propaganda of paedophilia" - which the Rsian ernment often nflat wh beg gay.

Another element of the extensns prohibs rmatn which might "e mors to sire to change their sex", a reference to transgenr enacted, the law would allow any rmatn on the ter discsg LGBT topics to be blocked and films emed to nta posive pictns of beg gay to be banned.

RSIA TO GAYS: SHUT UP AND DISAPPEAR

Khshte, an MP om Mr Put's Uned Rsia Party, told the Duma that the "special operatn" - what the Rsian ernment sists on llg s war Ukrae - is happeng "not only on the battlefield, but also the mds and souls of people" rhetoric follows that of the Rsian print, who has ma beg anti-gay a rnerstone of his domtic agenda and thorarian speech annexg four Ukraian terrori last month, Mr Put ranted about fai wh a "parent number one and a parent number two" - what has been terpreted as a cricism of same-sex fai. He has portrayed Rsia's war Ukrae as a battle between those who support pro-Wtern gay pri events, and those who reject on this story.

GAY-THEMED FILMS ABOUT RUSSIA.

1, 1995) Documentary about gay men &. women's prisons, transsexualy, lbian and gay muny anizg, g.

RSIAN GAY PERD DRAMA WS BT PROJECT AWARD AT SERI MANIA

out and homophobia. Unr Article 121--which crimaliz homosexualy--lbians. and gay men Kiev face the threat of imprisonment, blackmail, ernment.

appearance, so 's mostly a film about US-Rsian gay upl...

wife thks he is gay. Touted as a gay film, but 's more of a film about a double: not much. The hero do save a gay man om a gay-bashg at.

‘COULDN’T BELIEVE I WAS SEEG ’: HOME MOVI OFFER RARE GLIMPSE OF GAY LIFE ST. LOUIS 1945

Before long, all three liv unravel, exemplified by a vis to a Buddhist healer, a three-way the bathroom of a gay bar, a faked ath and a kidnappg. While well received at a Rsian film ftival Honflr, has yet to be released bee of the subject matter, which puts two famo Soviet filmmakers to a gay relatnship.

A homophobic film that plays up the gay nnectn between Dant, who killed Phk a duel, and his adopted father Baron Heeckeren. The ath of Rsia's greatt poet is prented as a nspiracy of foreigners and gays.

Back to Rsian Gay. As Rsia ntu to flounr Ukrae, wh attempts to pture the small town of Bakhmut turng to a grisly reenactment of the Battle of Verdun, and Kreml propagandists lurchg back and forth between hysteril swagger and the five stag of grief, the Rsian polil tablishment has cid to tackle what’s really important: a natnal “Don’t Say Gay” law. A bill that outlaws “LGBT propaganda”—fed so broadly as to ver not only gay or transgenr rights advocy but potentially all public exprsns of “nontradnal” sexualy or genr inty—passed the State Duma on November 24 and was approved by the upper hoe of Rsia’s fake legislature, the Council of Feratns, last Wednday.

GAY MAN RSIA FORCED TO HIDG OVER YOUTUBE TERVIEW

” (Thk of as the Really Don’t Say Gay Law. ) But do rell Soviet-era censorship unr which any mentn of Tchaikovsky’s homosexualy was scbbed om books and films about the great poser’s life, while bgraphil prefac to Soviet edns of Osr Wil cloaked the reason for his imprisonment such phemisms as “transgrsns agast moraly.

” Ocsnally, foreign books wh gay characters, such as Iris Murdoch’s 1973 novel The Black Prce, slipped past the censor’s vigilant eye.

But there uld have been no qutn, for stance, of publishg Jam Baldw’s gay-themed masterpiece Gvanni’s Room, even though Baldw was acclaimed the official Soviet media as a fighter agast Amerin racism; the novel had to wa until 2007 for s first Rsian edn. This is not the first time Put-era Rsian legislatn has gone after “gay propaganda”: A more limed 2013 law add “propaganda of non-tradnal sexual relatns” to a broar law that banned the distributn of “harmful” material to mors. The Duma voted down an amendment that would have exempted “universally regnized cultural products” such as lerature and art om the ban; theory, this means, for example, that Rsian translatns of Vladimir Nabokov’s novel Pale Fire, whose prcipal narrator Charl Kbote is nspicuoly gay, uld fall unr the ax.

RSIA RAIDS GAY PEOPLE'S HOM

Jt last month, the premiere of a play lled The Prcs and the Ogre at a children’s theater Novosibirsk was nceled—or at least layed, sce will apparently open this month after vettg by the Mistry of Culture—bee of an anonymo plat om someone who found too gay. Many Rsian mentators, such as journalist and activist Renat Davletgilyev, believe the new law is a transparent attempt by the Put regime to shore up flaggg support among the Rsian public by appealg to homophobia, stg gays as the menacg “other, ” and monizg not only the Wt but Rsian antiwar liberals as “sexual viants. A report by journalist Sasha Belaya on the Khodorkovsky Live YouTube channel noted that the Duma’s discsn and passage of the legislatn had been acpanied by an anti-gay mpaign the Rsian state media that explicly targeted liberals and dissints.

Fellow TV host Vladimir Solovyov livered his mentary on “this filth, this abomatn, this foulns, and nasts” a bizarre sgsong apparently tend to mimic “gay” mannerisms. In a particularly ironic twist, some propagandists such as Olga Skabeyeva exprsed ncern that the ban on “LGBT propaganda” uld accintally brg the hammer down on homophobic propaganda, bee was unclear what kd of pictns of “nontradnal sexual relatns” were prohibed: Could her own show be slapped wh a fe for showg the Zygar/Shcherbak kiss, albe “wh undisguised revulsn, ” as an exposé of “the liberal public” and of “the Wt and s valu”?

ANTI-GAY VIRAL VIO STIRS OUTRAGE AHEAD OF RSIAN REFERENDUM

The gay-bashg for domtic nsumptn uld achieve at least some sire effect a untry where nearly 70 percent of the populatn believ that nsensual same-sex relatns between adults should be illegal and half say they feel personal hostily toward LGBT people.

YOUTUBE TAK DOWN ANTI-GAY AD AFTER OUTRAGE RSIA

But is que likely that the current Rsian anti-gay mpaign, cludg the anti–“LGBT propaganda” law, is tend at least part for a Wtern dience—a specific part of , that is.