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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

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CELEBRATG THE GAY RSIAN CELEBRI HISTORY BOOKS TRIED TO ERASE

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.

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

' (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.

HISTORY’S GREATT GAY GENERAL

"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.

THE REVOLUTNARY WAR HERO WHO WAS OPENLY GAY

"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. 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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.