Put's Anti-Gay War on Ukrae - Boston Review

Contents:

• THE REVOLUTNARY WAR HERO WHO WAS OPENLY GAY
• PRO-PUT CHECHEN GENERAL WHO LED 'GAY PURGE' KILLED UKRAE
• PUT’S ANTI-GAY WAR ON UKRAE
• ARMY’S FIRST OPENLY GAY GENERAL RETIR AFTER SPIRG OTHERS
• US ARMY GENERAL COM OUT AS GAY, INTRODUC HIS ‘HBAND’ AT PENTAGON GAY PRI EVENT

THE REVOLUTNARY WAR HERO WHO WAS OPENLY GAY

Gay men have always been part of the Amerin ary. In an era before gay marriage or open pri, ary men fell love, formed passnate iendships and had same-sex enunters. But the se of one of the ary’s foundg hero, homosexualy was always part of the story.

Historians also thk he was homosexual—and served as an openly gay man the ary at a time when sex between men was punished as a crime. He also downplayed mors that the baron had been dismissed om the Pssian ary for homosexualy. But he was gay, and homosexualy was viewed as a crimal aberratn by many of his peers.

PRO-PUT CHECHEN GENERAL WHO LED 'GAY PURGE' KILLED UKRAE

”After the war, von Stben legally adopted both men—a mon practice among gay men an age before same-sex marriage was legal. John Mulligan, who was also gay, served as von Stben’s secretary and is thought to have had a relatnship wh the baron.

Durg von Stben’s lifetime, the ncept of gay marriage, gay pri or g out was unthkable and there was no language or open culture of homosexualy.

PUT’S ANTI-GAY WAR ON UKRAE

But historil homosexual relatnships were actually don’t mean beg gay was ndoned: Sodomy was a crime lonial Ameri. ”Acrdg to the Bla: “Sourc wh Rsian-based human rights anizatns nfirmed that Thayev played an unspecified role as recently as May of 2021 when human rights activist and a gay man, Ibragim Selimkhanov, was abducted om a subway statn the Novogireyevo District of the Rsian pal cy of Mosw by four Chechen operativ and flown agast his will to the Chechen pal cy of Grozny.

ARMY’S FIRST OPENLY GAY GENERAL RETIR AFTER SPIRG OTHERS

"Sce 2017, human and LGBTQ+ activists noted that Chechen secury operativ and other officials the Kadyrov regime, cludg Thayev sourc nfirmed, have round up dozens of men on spicn of beg gay, held them unofficial tentn facili for days, huiated, starved and tortured them, what has been dubbed Chechnya’s 'anti-gay purge, " the report add. The Kreml has nstcted a pernic iology of homophobia as geopolics. The realy is that the Kreml has nstcted a pernic iology of homophobia as geopolics, and official Rsian rhetoric the war Ukrae is amed as the ntuatn of this polics by other means.

The 2013 law banng “propaganda for non-tradnal sexual relatnships” among mors not only rtricted possibili to speak and rm about sexualy and genr issu public—somethg siar is now unfoldg the Uned Stat, should be noted—but also signated homosexualy as a danger to children and to society. ” Acrdg to this logic, the facts that NATO expands to terrori Rsia nsirs part of s “sphere of fluence” and that European and Amerin lears talk of gay rights as universal human rights are two sis of the same . In 2013 the Rsian newspaper Izvtiya warned that Wt-sponsored LGBT activism uld spark a “gay revolutn” riskg to throw Rsia back to the societal chaos of the 1990s.

US ARMY GENERAL COM OUT AS GAY, INTRODUC HIS ‘HBAND’ AT PENTAGON GAY PRI EVENT

As the Maidan protts agast the pro-Rsian print Viktor Yanovych began Ukrae late 2013, Rsia’s largt newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda claimed that the protts were -anized by “natnalists, anti-Sem, neo-Nazis and homosexuals. This tt is very straightforward and at the same time horrifyg—the gay para.

The mand to anize a gay-para is a tt of loyalty to this powerful world. Protectg Rsian children—embodyg the natn’s future—om predatory homosexuals as well as om harmful LGBT iology has been a recurrg argument, ed to motivate both the 2013 gay propaganda law and the 2013 “Dima Yakovlev law, ” which banned U. Such a moral mappg fluenced the nservative genr polics of the 1930s Stal regime, when the Communists retroduced the ban on sodomy (which had been lifted after the 1917 revolutn) and explicly picted homosexualy as a secury threat the form of unrground, pro-Hler works of homosexuals—Healey lls the nservative turn unr Stal the “birth of morn Rsian polil homophobia.

The 1950s gay panic the Uned Stat, when accatns of homosexualy beme a smear tactic Joseph McCarthy’s anti-Communist csa and homosexuals were barred om servg the feral admistratn as they were seen as potential Soviet spi, has obv siari to how LGBT movements today’s Rsia are scribed as a fifth lumn planted by the Wt.