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A 23-year-old Russian violinist called Artem Kolesov emailed BuzzFeed News last week with a message that began: “Hello, I know that you receive thousands of emails every day, but I would like to share my story with you.”
He explained that he grew up in a Pentecostal Christian family in rural Russia, that both his parents were pastors, and that he had just come out as gay on YouTube.
“I did it,” he wrote, “Because it breaks my heart to know how many Russian children and other LGBT youth around the world feel like they’re alone”.
Kolesov sent a link to the YouTube video – which he uploaded a day after his birthday – and said he hoped that it might at least aid one child.
It detailed the years he spent praying that God would get his homosexuality away, the depression he suffered, the five attempts to murder himself, and his reasons for speaking out now.
He agreed to be interviewed on the phone at first, and then via Skype. It was just days after reports had emerged that the authorities in Chechnya were arresting, imprisoning and murdering male lover men.
His video reveals another, invisible kind of prison that exists in Russia for LGBT people – one of silence and fear. In 2013, Russ
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From Eric Marcus: To realize how a heterosexual, Jewish, Midwestern daughter of a Russian immigrant singlehandedly influenced how Americans reflection about gay people, how parents saw their gay kids, and how queer people felt about themselves, you contain to go endorse in time. Before Google and social media. Before the internet. Before cable TV. Back to a time when everyone read a newspaper and twin sisters born on the 4th of July in 1918 wrote competing syndicated advice columns browse by tens of millions of people around the earth. Pauline Esther Friedman Phillips wrote the “Dear Abby” column under the quill name Abigail Van Buren. Her twin sister, Esther Pauline Friedman Lederer, wrote the “Ann Landers” column.
Pauline Phillips (nicknamed “Popo” by her family) affirmatively took on the issue of homosexuality and the rights of gay people in her column—beginning in the late 1960s/early 1970s—at a period when doing so risked backlash from her readers and the newspapers in which her column appeared. She was one of the only high-profile celebrities to do so during an era when g
Russian Gays Talk ‘Homosexual Propaganda’ and Existence in New York
Maybe it makes meaning to dump vodka in the avenue — or maybe it doesn’t. But doing nothing isn’t anoption.
Last night, about 100 people gathered at New York’s LGBT Community Center to talk about strategies for fighting Russia’s new regulation against “homosexual propaganda” — a measure that bans most forms of homosexual public expression. Attending the event, convened by the groups RUSALGBT and Gay Nation, were about a dozen LGBT Russian New Yorkers, including both longtime residents and recent arrivals. With their American supporters, they discussed ideas ranging from vodka pour-outs to marches in front of Brand-new York’s Russian Orthodox churches — church leaders in Russia support the regulation — to campaigns against U.S. corporations, such as Coca-Cola and McDonald’s, that have a enormous presence in Russia and are sponsoring the upcoming Winter Olympics inSochi.
We checked in with some of the Russian attendees to spot how they experience about their country’s new crackdown on gays, what should be done about it, and where to get the best Russian sustenance in New YorkCity.
Sometimes the best way to disagree injustice and inequality is through humour, an thought that Mother London hold again explored in their new project. Horrified by the treatment of the LGBT community in Russia, where homosexuality has been classed as a mental illness since 1999, Mother have worked with The Kaleidoscope Trust charity to create something silly that has a serious show to make. To Russia With Love is a limited edition set of hand-painted Russian dolls but in place of bonneted matrons, the sets film prominent British LGBT figures, namely Sir Elton John, George Michael, Stephen Fry, Graham Norton and Tom Daley (presumably a behind addition). The dolls are being auctioned off on eBay to raise funds for the charity and sets are being delivered to both The Kremlin and the Russian Embassy in London. With the winter Olympics heading to Sochi next year, more attention will turn to Russia’s gay rights record and this is a tongue-in-cheek way to make a point that we shouldn’t stand for this gentle of behaviour in the 21st Century. Iwasaround 12 or 13 years old. It was a time of big adjust and excitement. My family had had anti-Communist tendencies for years, so when the Soviet Union collapsed, we were thrilled and gratified. My classmates stopped wearing their red neck scarves and Lenin pins, which I had ditched long before it became acceptable. People started to profess their religious convictions, openly embrace Western customs, and dream of earning a better living in the new capitalist world. For a brief moment, freedom and hopefulness were in the air. Then the darker side of change became apparent. The Communist leaders who had resisted reforms for so long but suddenly were eager to embrace them had the same elderly agenda in mind: to take for themselves. Using the unsavory practice called "privatization," they started to grab -- literally pirate -- public property and claim it as their own. These titans of the political elite turned government stores, stadiums, cemeteries, and parks into their own private estates and enterprises. Can you picture Barack Obama suddenly taking the Library of Congress and gifting it to his cousin? How about Sen. Patty Murray building her own private parking lot on top of
Aleksandr Bergan, 27, shipping agency exec, and Ivan Samonov, 32, telecomm Product Design: Gay icons as Russian dolls in ace LGBT rights campaign