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GAY THE USSR
Rsia is not an easy place to be gay. Though homosexualy is no longer outright illegal -- and has not been nsired a mental disorr sce 1999 -- a stubbornly homophobic stra of natnalism persists, as evinced most recently by an anti-homosexual "propaganda" bill that is gag momentum the State Duma. Though homosexualy is no longer outright illegal — and has not been nsired a mental disorr sce 1999 — a stubbornly homophobic stra of natnalism persists, as evinced most recently by an anti-homosexual "propaganda" bill that is gag momentum the State Duma.
AN ARTIST INVTIGAT THE DIVI BETWEEN RSIAN JEWS AND RSIAN GAYS
Rsians are at least talkg about homosexualy today a way that wasn’t possible durg the Soviet perd — a silence that left a gapg hole Rsia’s historil rerd. In his latt work, Fiks unveils a particularly well-hidn piece of that history: gay cisg unr munism.