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.
I wanted to reclaim history om the state and give back to gay people, lbians and queers.
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 books *
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.