The past five years have wnsed an explosn of tert the histori of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer people the Soviet Unn and s succsor stat. This special issue extends our unrstandg of the history of queer experience the late Soviet Unn and s succsor stat. Its eight articl balance attentn between the Rsian “re” and republics on the “periphery” of the USSR: Geia, Kyrgyzstan, and Latvia. One article draws attentn to Italy, and t...
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GAY THE USSR
Wh Rsia set to host next year’s Wter Olympics, ternatnal attentn is focsed on the untry’s relatnship wh s gay and lbian cizens. * homosexuality in soviet *
This say exam the trial of a group of homosexual men and the vtigatn of a lbian uple, both om 1922, which show that Soviet urts tried to reprs sexual variatn even when homosexualy was not a crime.
THE HISTORY OF HOMOSEXUALY RSIA: OM SOVIET SEX CHANG TO GAY GULAGS
By: Alfonso CasalThe fact that homosexualy was crimally sanctned unr Soviet law is somethg that is often thrown the face of munists general, and ed to “discred” Comra Stal particular. What needs to be stated is that Soviet legal and medil opn on this qutn was no different than what was generally accepted the world at large, namely, that homosexualy was a psycho-sexual disorr, a form of mental illns.