'Sorry mum, I’m still gay': Rsian club helps parents accept sexual preference | Rsia | The Guardian

Contents:

• GAY PRI DKTOP WALLPAPER
• AM I GAY?
• 'SORRY MUM, I’M STILL GAY': RSIAN CLUB HELPS PARENTS ACCEPT SEXUAL PREFERENCE
• HOW THE TIM GAVE ‘GAY’ ITS OWN VOICE (AGA)
• MOM, I’M GAY. CAN MY FRIENDS SLEEP OVER?

GAY PRI DKTOP WALLPAPER

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AM I GAY?

The parents’ club has a few l: you n only speak if you’re holdg the navy dragon, a soft toy that has grown shabby the club’s four-year existence; no terptg is allowed; and phon mt be swched an unassumg buildg the centre of St Petersburg, fai of Rsian gay men and women gather each month, hopg for unrstandg and renciliatn.

Although the group is ostensibly for parents, they are far outnumbered by sons and dghters who have faced the difficulti of g out a homophobic untry.

'SORRY MUM, I’M STILL GAY': RSIAN CLUB HELPS PARENTS ACCEPT SEXUAL PREFERENCE

She believ that, whatever the circumstanc, talkg helps: “You have to expla to [your parents] that homosexuals are not the people they [are ma out to be] on televisn.

HOW THE TIM GAVE ‘GAY’ ITS OWN VOICE (AGA)

Homosexualy was crimalised 1993 after the fall of the Soviet Unn, but rights groups say the suatn for Rsia’s gay populatn has bee more 2014 Human Rights Watch released a report documentg a rise homophobic rhetoric and vlence Rsia.

MOM, I’M GAY. CAN MY FRIENDS SLEEP OVER?

She sensed stantly that he was troubled, but put down to the difficulti of adaptg to life back Dmry began his g out talk wh the words “I want you to listen to me but this might ighten you”, she says the possibily that her son might be gay had never occurred to her. She expected her son to lead her to a basement where “gays live”, she says, and “when I saw that no one was dancg tights, jt cent people stg around, I was que surprised, ” she adds.

”The mothers om the club believe that the problems wh acceptance lie not wh them, but wh Rsian society as a whole: if gay people are nstantly beg abed on televisn, why should someone sudnly believe a handful of people who take a different view? Mara: ‘The shock lasted 10 days’“After the g out blows your md, the world as was cmbl away, together wh your plans for your child’s future, ” says Mara Melnik, the founr of parents’ club: her son Roman told her he was gay six years ago.