The Cambridge History of Gay and Lbian Lerature - November 2014
Contents:
23 - RSIAN GAY AND LBIAN LERATURE
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Fans of romance, take heed: the trailer for the gay historil drama Firebird has arrived. Unr Rsia’s aggreive “gay propaganda law”, queer culture is effectively barred om both the mastream media and public spac. Now Instagram project Izvtnye Tetki is reclaimg Rsia’s male gay history all s glory.
The acunt’s founr, 25-year-old Nika Andriyanov, had always felt that Rsia’s history had been stolen om the gay muny. “The state propaganda mache nstantly channels the ia that homosexualy ‘don’t belong to our untry and tradns’ or that ‘gays me om the US after the llapase of the USSR’. “We had to perfect our English to get accs to books about gay love, stead of beg able to turn to Rsian lerature, such as Wgs by Mikhail Kuzm.
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Instagram project Izvtnye Tetki is reclaimg Rsia’s gay history all s glory * gay russian books *
I wanted to reclaim history om the state and give back to gay people, lbians and queers. By the end of the 19th century, started to appear the prs when referrg to homosexuals general. Especially for The Calvert Journal, Andriyanov has picked 10 proment figur of Rsia’s gay history: perfect for anyone embarkg on their own journey queer tn for Pri Month 2020.
Morn historians also state that 1887, Grand De Sergei opened a private club for gay men St Petersburg, which existed for four years before the Grand Prce had to leave the cy for his new posn Mosw. His mic has glorified Rsia forever, but Rsia failed to glorify his te self as a gay man. Acrdg to the poser Nikolay Nabokov, he was “the first great homosexual who ma his prence felt and was regnised by the society.