A story for children about fai wh same-sex parents has been published Rsia as part of a mpaign to have the untry’s ‘gay propaganda’ law repealed
Contents:
- 23 - RSIAN GAY AND LBIAN LERATURE
- THE FILM PUT DON’T WANT THE WORLD TO SEE: FIREBIRD, A GAY LOVE STORY ABOUT FIGHTER PILOTS
- CELEBRATG THE GAY RSIAN CELEBRI HISTORY BOOKS TRIED TO ERASE
23 - RSIAN GAY AND LBIAN LERATURE
The Cambridge History of Gay and Lbian Lerature - November 2014 * gay russian book *
The publishg hoe has bee the target of the ernment’s first vtigatn to possible vlatns of the new law expands on a 2013 piece of legislatn banng the distributn of so-lled “gay propaganda” to mors.
“There were lerally, like, no sex scen the book, ” Anastasian book also had an “18+” label pliance wh the untry’s olr legislatn banng “gay propaganda” for mors. ”Ira Rolduga, a historian of queer history Rsia and a postdoctoral fellow at the Universy of Ptsburgh, said that Put offers Rsians a false versn of history where gay people never had a place Rsia. “Technilly, Rsia was the first major untry to crimalize homosexualy, ” Rolduga said.
Startg unr Stal, gay men were prosecuted by the state for havg relatnships. “Rsians are not herently homophobic people, they jt do not have rmatn on LBGTQ+ issu bee this kd of rmatn is actually banned, ” Rolduga said. “Beg gay was a crimal offence.
THE FILM PUT DON’T WANT THE WORLD TO SEE: FIREBIRD, A GAY LOVE STORY ABOUT FIGHTER PILOTS
Paperback: $16/£11 E-book: $10/£7 Prt + E-book: $20/£14 русская э-книга: $0 FAQs and shippg rmatn B B is an ternatnal, centralized digal currency. Learn more at Prt: $16 B E-book: $10 Prt + E-book FAQs and shippg rmatn About the Book Gay Propaganda brgs together origal stori, terviews and ttimonial, prented both * gay russian book *
” Rebane knew he was gay at the age of ne.
”Remarkably for a film wh such overtly gay ntent, several exterr scen were filmed Mosw. “After that, ” adds Prr, “there was a plat about beg ‘homosexual propaganda’.
Gay Propaganda brgs together origal stori, terviews and ttimonial, prented both English and Rsian, to pture the liv and lov of LGBT Rsians livg both Rsia and exile today.
CELEBRATG THE GAY RSIAN CELEBRI HISTORY BOOKS TRIED TO ERASE
Instagram project Izvtnye Tetki is reclaimg Rsia’s gay history all s glory * gay russian book *
Available Febary 2014, time for the Wter Olympics Sochi, the book is a provotive riposte to Rsia’s recently passed and ill-fed ban on “homosexual propaganda. Hopg to manipulate backward but wily-held prejudic, opted to monize gays and lbians.
The Rsian Duma is now batg a law to take children away om gay and lbian parents. As the world’s media turns s attentn to the host untry of the Wter Olympics, the stori gathered Gay Propaganda offer a timely and timate wdow to the hardships faced by Rsians on the receivg end of state-sanctned homophobia. She is a lbian mother who is abandong her home Rsia bee of the anti-gay laws.
Gay Star News, Febary 16th 2014, Febary 16th 2014, Febary 16th 2014. Unr Rsia’s aggreive “gay propaganda law”, queer culture is effectively barred om both the mastream media and public spac.