Rsian Gay and Lbian Lerature (Chapter 23) - The Cambridge History of Gay and Lbian Lerature

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 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.

THE FILM PUT DON’T WANT THE WORLD TO SEE: FIREBIRD, A GAY LOVE STORY ABOUT FIGHTER PILOTS

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.

” 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’.

CELEBRATG THE GAY RSIAN CELEBRI HISTORY BOOKS TRIED TO ERASE

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. 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.