'We're not hidg': Gay and lbian Rsians say a cultural shift is unrway

Contents:

• PUT’S PRI? SIX FAMO GAY SONS OF RSIA
• CELEBRATG THE GAY RSIAN CELEBRI HISTORY BOOKS TRIED TO ERASE
• MAXIM RSIA'S LIST OF 'GAYS WE RPECT' PRAIS LGBT STARS WHO 'REMA REAL MEN'
• HISTORY’S GREATT GAY GENERAL
• THE REVOLUTNARY WAR HERO WHO WAS OPENLY GAY
• RSIA'S LARGT GAY NIGHTCLUB STRIV TO BE A HAVEN DPE HORRIFIC ATTACKS
• 'WE'RE NOT HIDG': GAY AND LBIAN RSIANS SAY A CULTURAL SHIFT IS UNRWAY

PUT’S PRI? SIX FAMO GAY SONS OF RSIA

Thanks to the shownners drivg thentic stori, filmmakers buckg s-old heteronormative paradigms, actors embolned to live more hontly and platforms bankrollg so much of , beg gay, queer, transgenr or any other other has never been more wily embraced the entertament s gural Pri issue, The Hollywood Reporter homed on the talent and makers helpg boost visibily and creatg opportuni for members of the extend LGBTQ muny. After more than a of Watch What Happens Live Wh Andy Cohen, where he beme the first openly gay host Amerin late night, Bravo's exec turned talent tackl all kds of media (SiriXM show Rad Andy, multiple books), while upliftg and advotg for the LGBTQ muny. Puttg his stamp on The Ln Kg — he played Timon to great acclaim the billn-dollar-earng Disney reboot — the out-and-proud funnyman will next play Matt Ddge  Amerin Crime Story: Impeachment while his upg Judd Apatow-produced feature at Universal is set to be the first gay rom- om a major stud.

Creator of the NBC s One Big Happy and her own YouTube talk show This Jt Out, Feldman recently ma her Netflix edy outright queer, as Dead to Me's sophomore season revealed a lead character to be bisexual.

The queer Salvadoran edian translated the handful of breakout Saturday Night Live scen he wrote to multiple als at HBO — where he buted the edy special My Favore Shap  2019 and is readyg season two of Los Espookys, the half-Spanish, half-English, entirely absurd edy which he stars as the gay heir to a cholate fortune. NewsMaxim Rsia's list of 'gays we rpect' prais LGBT stars who 'rema real men'The Rsian versn of Maxim released a ntroversial list of gay celebri who n be "fiven" for their sexual Rsia's list of gay men who n be "fiven" is beg taken as a backhand pliment, at btNeil Patrick Harris, Freddie Mercury and Sir Ian McKellen are among the select group of male celebri Maxim Rsia chose to clu their recent list of 'Gays We Rpect.

CELEBRATG THE GAY RSIAN CELEBRI HISTORY BOOKS TRIED TO ERASE

' (Screenshot/)Rsian Lord of the Rgs fans who e Maxim magaze as a moral and ethil pass should be pleased to note that is now A-OK, by the publitn's standards, to rpect actor Ian McKellen as a "real man" and fellow human award-wng Brish thpian, known to lns as Gandalf the wizard or X-Men's Mago, tops Maxim Rsia's recently-released list of men the magaze has "fiven" for beg homosexual.

"Includg McKellen, a total of ten very famo men ma the cut:Brish edian Stephen FryIrish playwright and novelist Osr WilQueen ontman Freddie MercuryFrench actor Jean MaraisFamed mathematician Alan TurgFight Club thor Chuck Palahni​Judas Prit rocker Rob HalfordMonty Python's Graham ChapmanAmerin actor and TV host Neil Patrick Harris"We weren't sure about cludg Neil Patrick Harris the list — after all, he clared himself a 'happy gay' 2006, " reads a blurb unr Harris's the actor's How I Met Your Mother character, Barney Stson, as the reason for Harris's cln, the magaze wr that "'s impossible not to rpect someone who elevated the hunt for girls to a te art, who systematized all the tricks and techniqu and created the 'Bro Co. "Halford was siarly held up as proof that "if you're ol enough, don't matter what your orientatn is, " while Fry was emed "the livg embodiment of the ia that one n be openly gay and a sensible person at the same time. "His creativy brought so much joy, that we are willg to five him anythg"Rsia and gay rightsHomosexualy was legalized Rsia more than two s ago, but is timated that jt 1% of the untry's LGBT populatn liv openly due to the discrimatn and sometim vlence gay people passg of an "anti-gay" propaganda law ahead of 2014's Sochi Olympics brought the issue to a head on the world stage, spurrg ternatnal protts and triggerg even more asslts on gay men and women wh Rsia (asslts that don't unt as hate crim unr Rsian law.

Several bgraphi have more than a whiff of his haggraphy of the kg, historian Thomas Carlyle rejected assertns that Frerick was gay as a "thrice-abomable mor" spread by those wh a "solacement to human malice and impertent cursy. "Add Zimmermann:Voltaire, [the poet Lrent] la Bemelle, the [French foreign mister] De Choisl, numerable Frenchman and Germans, almost all the iends and enemi of Frerick, almost all the prc and great men of Europe, even his servants — even the nfidants and iends of his later years, were of opn that he had loved, as is pretend, Socrat loved even Zimmermann tried to straighten his hero, spng a dub and far-fetched theory that Frerick wasn't gay, he jt wanted other people to thk he was. "This soldier, young, handsome, well ma, and who played the flute, served to enterta the prisoner more than one fashn, " the French wrer and philosopher Voltaire a personal letter, Voltaire would pare Frerick to the gay lover of ancient Bhynian kg Nies IV.

MAXIM RSIA'S LIST OF 'GAYS WE RPECT' PRAIS LGBT STARS WHO 'REMA REAL MEN'

12, 2014— -- As Rsia enjoys the spotlight that sh om the multibilln-dollar splendor of the Sochi Wter Olympics, over Mosw, dismay ns through Central Statn, Rsia's largt gay s bullet-sprayed doors and protective razor-wire fencg, Central Statn management says has been subjected to shootgs, water and gas attacks, and vandalism.

HISTORY’S GREATT GAY GENERAL

But the staff says a recent spate of homophobic attacks has terrified the gay muny say 's all part of an tensifyg anti-gay sentiment Rsia, a untry that's never been wily acceptg of homosexualy, but recently has been flamed by a ntroversial anti-gay propaganda law, signed by Print Put last June, bans the "propaganda of non-tradnal relatnships" to mors, and has received ternatnal nmnatn. It claims to protect children om rmatn about homosexualy, but human rights activists say 's really a crackdown on gay rights, a form of stutnalized homophobia meant to supprs gay-rights activists om holdg public events and gay people om livg their liv openly.

Instead, they said, they were there to provi secury for the guts and to make sure nothg illegal "moraly patrol" had heard of the attacks and suggted that extremist anti-gay groups were rponsible, potg out that many lol groups disapprove of gay clubs and of the most extreme anti-gay activists are members of a radil Orthodox Christian group lled "God's Will. Freric ChopThe legendary 19th-century Polish poser wrote love letters to Tyt Wojciechowski that revealed his persuasn, acrdg to historian Michel Lariviere, and there is evince he had male lovers before that as well, cludg the openly and famoly gay Marquis Cte. Speakg before Put signed the bill to the law on Monday, Tanya Loksha, associate Europe and Central Asia director at Human Rights Watch said: “The 2013 ‘gay propaganda’ law was an unabashed example of polil homophobia, and the new draft legislatn amplifi that broar and harsher ways.

He studied unr Frank Bridge, John Ireland and Arthur Benjam among others, and was also a fe ground-breakg operas, which clu Peter Grim (1945), and The Turn of the Screw (1954) – and his famo War Requiem – tackle ntemporaneo issu around psychology and post-war trma, as well his own homosexualy, which was illegal Brten’s lifetime. As well as beg one of the first openly gay posers full stop, Poulenc also didn’t chew his sexualy the ntext of his relig posns spanned om timate chamber sonatas wh sublime, twistg melodi and lite imprsnist harmoni (thk the 1957 Flute Sonata), to his Piano Concerto and epic one-act opera for soprano and orchtra, La voix humae. And like them, he was associated wh gay clergyman, Cardal Pietro Baroque poser and vlist is known for his chamber sonatas and ncerti grossi, and has gone down history for refg to play a sectn of Hanl’s orator, The Triumph Of Time And Tth, bee a vl note went higher than Corelli believed appropriate for the stment.

THE REVOLUTNARY WAR HERO WHO WAS OPENLY GAY

Leonard Bernste also studied at the Curtis Instute wh Barber and Menotti (see above), and although he had an on-aga-off-aga relatnship wh actor Felicia Cohn Montealegre and eventually married her, he was openly gay. Montealegre herself wrote publicly about her book, The Bernste Letters, “you are a homosexual and may never change – you don’t adm to the possibily of a double life, but if your peace of md, your health, your whole nervo system pend on a certa sexual pattern what n you do? Culled om a longlist of hundreds, movi nsired for the list promently feature gay, lbian, trans, or queer characters; ncern self centrally wh LGBTQ+ them; prent s LGBTQ+ characters a fair and realistic light; and/or be seen as a touchpot the evolutn of queer cema.

RSIA'S LARGT GAY NIGHTCLUB STRIV TO BE A HAVEN DPE HORRIFIC ATTACKS

And we regnize that some of the films the list will re-igne healthy bat that have been fixtur of discsn around LGBTQ+ films — straight actors playg gay characters, cis actors playg trans characters, and the historil domance of whe male perspectiv. For our most recent update to the list, we’ve add mastream edi Fire Island and Bros, thriller Knock at the Cab (featurg two pairs of hbands whose vatn is terpted by the potential apolypse), Disney feature Strange World (wh the stud’s first openly gay lead character), Blue Jean (a Brish drama set durg the Thatcher premiership), the extremely well-reviewed Girl Picture), France’s magil realist The Five Devils, and Cann 2023 buts Monster and Strange Way of Life.

The topic of homosexualy and s histori wh the lands that make up today’s Rsian Feratn has been, until recently, faiar chiefly to stunts of Eastern European or Slavic studi, particularly the fields of lerature, art and mic. In ntrast to the emphatic nmnatn of homosexualy regularly advanced by the Wtern church unr Catholicism, the Orthodox Church functned an environment where the fn of masculy clud same-sex relatns the spectm of possible sexual relatns.

'WE'RE NOT HIDG': GAY AND LBIAN RSIANS SAY A CULTURAL SHIFT IS UNRWAY

Proment poets this group clud Nikolai Kliuev (1884-1937), Mara Tsvetaeva (1892-1941), Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966) and Sofia Parnok (1885-1933), who was scribed as the “Rsian Sappho” – th, for a brief perd, beg lbian or gay was no longer an inty that had to be hidn, but one which uld be theoretilly openly celebrated. Between 1976 and 1982, three articl on “Rsia’s Gay Lerature and History”, ” Death and Rurrectn of Mikhail Kuzm “ and “ Gay Life Before the Soviets: Revisnism Revised “ were published Gay Sunshe, Slavic Review and THE ADVOCATE rpectively. The Gay Sunshe article was later clud the 1993 anthology Gay Roots: Twenty Years of Gay Sunshe: An Anthology of Gay History, Sex, Polics, and Culture eded by Wston Leyland wh substantial addnal materials add unr the tle “ Rsia’s Gay History and Lerature om the Eleventh to the Twentieth Centuri.

” Karlsky also ntributed a chapter on “Rsia’s Gay Lerature and Culture: the Impact of the October Revolutn” to the 1990 anthology Hidn From History: Reclaimg the Gay and Lbian Past eded by Mart Duberman, Martha Vic and Gee Chncey. Both of the says provi the rear wh a tailed picture of the plex social world shaped by the lbian and gay wrers and artists of Rsia prr to the October 1917 revolutn and the somber fat many of them met the new Soviet world.