What Happened When a Gay Communist Wrote to Stal

Contents:

• 1917 RSIAN REVOLUTN: THE GAY MUNY'S BRIEF WDOW OF EEDOM
• LEN’S REVOLUTN: RED, GAY, AND ALMOST GLOR
• WHAT HAPPENED WHEN A GAY COMMUNIST WROTE TO STAL
• HARVEY LEV B, AGE, FAY, PARTNER, GAY, TMZ, SALARY, AND NET WORTH

1917 RSIAN REVOLUTN: THE GAY MUNY'S BRIEF WDOW OF EEDOM

I do not mean that he would have exprsed any negative opn agast gayns or transgenrism – far om – I spect he would have led the world profound and nate unrstandg! Consirg that virtually every other lie and misreprentatn has been ed to monise the world’s first Workers’ State, is a matter of disbelief that no-one Washgton or the CIA ever thought to weaponize ‘gayns’ and e a rogatory manner agast him. It uld be that although there is ‘no lim’ to the li that n be fabrited agast the USSR – Len beg a rampagg homosexual might well be nsired an iologil ‘bridge too far’, so-to-speak.

Sometime, much is ma about Len abolishg the old Czarist Law – which happened to clu an overtly ‘anti-gay law’ (mand by the Rsian Orthodox Church) – and that he never stuted a siar ‘Socialist’ Law forbiddg male and female homosexual practice. ‘‘At the same time Len stood up for eedom of liftyle, apparent om the fact that a cree signed by him Soviet Rsia was the first the world to end the crimaly of homosexualy. However, I am reliably rmed that homosexualy was first ‘legalised’ Italy 1918 – apparently as a rult of the succs of the Rsian Revolutn!

LEN’S REVOLUTN: RED, GAY, AND ALMOST GLOR

Due to the llapse of Communism 1991, and spe the bourgeois Wt ‘forcg’ the fledglg ‘palist’ Rsian State to openly ‘legalise’ male and female homosexualy 1993, the simultaneo re-emergence of the Rsian Orthodox Church to the polil arena has meant that regardls of this ‘godls’ secular law – the ‘Te Fah’ has once aga been lked to the fanatil holdg of ‘homophobic’ viewpots. The followg is an English translatn of a typil Rsian-language article that acc Len of beg ‘gay’ whilst implyg that there is somethg ‘wrong’ about this:. The BBC Rsian Foreign Service – which is no way ‘iendly’ or even ‘fair’ when reportg matters of Soviet history – was asked to vtigate the ‘mours’ of Len beg ‘gay’.

Elena Annenkova replied that after nsultg reliable Rsian historians upon this subject – the ncln was that there was ‘NO’ reliable evince that Len was ‘gay’ – end of story. But nothg follows om this, jt as nothg follows om the fact that Len was hidg om the Provisnal Government a hut Razliv wh Zoviev – and that ‘fake’ letters were eher wrten or altered to make the dialogue look as if ’s discsg homosexualy and gay uendo. I would prefer that gay people the Wt acrd Len the rpect he serv for ‘-crimalisg’ homosexualy a untry that had been heavily homophobic for centuri!

Image source, Olga KhoroshilovaImage ptn, Guts at the ceremony 1921 cross drsedIn January 1921 Rsian Baltic Fleet sailor Afanasy Shr anised an extraordary gay weddg Petrograd. He did not thk guts would e if had jt been a he gambled - rightly - that a proper weddg wh all the Rsian tradns, bread and salt, a blsg om the proud parents, and a ncert to follow, would be the time Rsia's gay muny was enjoyg a brief wdow of the October Revolutn 1917, the Bolsheviks scrapped and rewrote the untry's laws. They produced two Crimal Cos - 1922 and 1926 - and an article prohibg gay sex was left off source, Central State Library of St PetersburgImage ptn, Rsian sailors wh young men drsed women's cloth, 1916But the weddg Petrograd (now St Petersburg) was not all seemed.

WHAT HAPPENED WHEN A GAY COMMUNIST WROTE TO STAL

The se was eventually closed and the "unter-revolutnari" got away wh nothg more than a to regnise 'one's own'Image source, Olga KhoroshilovaImage ptn, Apasha and Apashka, fashn ins of the NEP era, Lengrad, mid-1920sGay men had been part of a distct unrground muny Rsia long before the revolutn and they regnised each other by the "secret language" of St Petersburg, some wore red ti, or red shawls, onto which they would sew the back pockets of powred their fac and wore a lot of the revolutn, the heavily ma-up "silent film star look" beme more mastream and no longer jt a fashn for young gay more about the Rsian RevolutnThe upheaval of the revolutn and civil war brought hard tim to Rsia and gay men were not able to match the flamboyant cloth and luxury accsori favoured by some of their unterparts across but still persecutedThe Bolsheviks were directly fluenced by Magn Hirschfeld, a German scientist who found the Instute of Sexology Berl. Image source, Olga KhoroshilovaImage ptn, Hansi Sturm, a famo Berl drag queen of the although there may not have been an article relatg to gay sex the crimal s of the 1920s, the muny was still persecuted. Gay men were often beaten, blackmailed or sacked om their wrote heartfelt letters to the psychiatrist Vladimir Bekhterev, nsirg him their last hope.

HARVEY LEV B, AGE, FAY, PARTNER, GAY, TMZ, SALARY, AND NET WORTH

They poured out their souls, askg him to help them pe wh prsn and even to "cure their illns" letters and other documents show that members of the gay muny were credibly brave - some wore women's drs and rsets, wore their hair long and often looked like real women. There were two gay muni and they rarely first were the so-lled "aristocrats" - reprentativ of the creative telligentsia, nobl, officials, and officers of the Tsarist army and navy. Image source, Olga KhoroshilovaImage ptn, Members of the Petrograd gay muny's 'simple class'The other muny was "simple" (the name, evintly, was vented by the "aristocrats").

It nsisted of soldiers, sailors, clerks - people who had not been part of the fashnable St Petersburg salons before the revolutn and who were not wele guts of the "aristocrats" after the 1920s, German Travti theatre - which men drs as women and vice versa - beme popular among Soviet gay men. Before the revolutn, Leifert was a supplier to the imperial urt and he also ma stum for the dancers of the Marisky then all me to an endAfter Afanasy Shr's plot to ensnare "unter-revolutnari" wh his spectacular gay marriage ceremony, there were no more high-profile weddgs or arrts like this the 1920s. Although homosexualy was tolerated, the muny started to lose s eedom the source, Olga KhoroshilovaImage ptn, Rsian "Travti" theatre, 1910sIn July 1933, 175 gay men om different walks of life were arrted what me to be known as the Case of the Lengrad Homosexuals.