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"Story of homosexual love in Russia" (news article)
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Posted by: Khashyar

Story of homosexual love in Russia

21:14 2002-06-19 (Pravda)

Unisexual female love is getting really very popular in Russia. There was a saying in the Soviet Union that we had neither sex, nor sexual minorities. Quite naturally, sex and sexual minorities really existed in the USSR, but the fact of it could not be recognized openly. Nobody dared to expose sexual preferences that were considered non-traditional at that time. Probably, only ever young Boris Moiseyev had the courage to demonstrate his sexual orientation. He organized trio Expressia together with two girls, and the group looked rather exotic and harmless. The trio even participated in governmental concerts in the Soviet era. It is to be mentioned here that not only people belonging to sexual minorities were among Moiseyev-s admirers, but rather respectable women.

Later Sergey Penkin, a talented singer from Russian city of Penza working as a street cleaner came to Moscow to enter the Gnesins musical high school. He also openly demonstrated his sexual preferences. He enjoyed Boris Moiseyev-s protection who helped Penkin to get on his singer career. The audience gave them a hearty welcome and understood the singers- image as an integral part of their work.

As for Russian female unisexual love, Morals police comes to memory at once. The group already broke up. The group looked rather exotic as well: two bald-headed girls with unusual names Angel and Frida, dressed in leather clothes, on high heels and with lashes sang about love and tried to demonstrate unisexual love to the audience. Such demonstrations of unisexual love lasted for a rather long period until one of the girls, Angel, got tired of it and married. Quite naturally that she married a man, one of those whom the group hated so much in the songs. Angel had to wear a wig for some time to let her hair grow, and then completely forgot her Lesbian youth.

The time was passing by, and finally sex was officially recognized in the Soviet Union. As it traditionally happens in this country, when something becomes really available for all people (alcohol or freedom of speech), such things get too abundant here. Over perestroika lots of young men with female looks appeared in the entertainment sphere.

Roman Viktyuk-s theatre and Alexander Mikhailovsky-s male ballet toured about the country and were really very popular.

The time was going by and the Russian people got used to non-traditional demonstration of love. Very often relations between a woman and a man were considered old-fashioned, kind of retro.

Still, the audience desired to get something more peculiar, probably it wanted to see more natural unisexual relations.

Not so long ago a duet of two young girls named TaTu appeared. Originally the Russian name of the group seemed just a set of letters, but later we understood that the name meant that one girl loved another. The duet got popular among Russian youth rather quickly. Some time later, when people got somewhat used to the lesbian manner of the girls, the group decided to shock the audience once again: this time TaTu not only demonstrated that they did not need men as sexual partners, but demonstrated they could do without any partners at all. As a result a rather amusing movie Easy movements was shot. No movements are demonstrated in the movie, we can see only eyes of a girl filled with delight after the movements she made. Duma deputies who saw the movie said, the latter was a progress as compared with the first movie. They also hope, the situation is not so hopeless, probably the girl would soon prefer boys for making love.

Now home camera shooting it is really very popular with schoolgirls: girls take cameras and make their ?easy movements¦ in the bathroom. Further tapes can be watched with friends at a party while drinking beer, or some prefer to send such tapes to TV program Producer to yourself (a rather funny popular TV program in Russia to which people sent amateur videos of their family, kids and funny moments of their life).

Russian musical duet Guests from the future is now a classical duet of a gay and a lesbian, a so-called family that represents ?capitalistic tomorrow¦, where man loves men, woman loves women and both live happily together as a family. Eva, the woman who sings solo in the group, appears alone or with girlfriends in movies, the audience likes it very much.

At the same time another popular singer Madonna, who is now a good wife and mother, suspended her scandalous musical career and started theatrical performances. Madonna plays a rather respectable woman, owner of a picture-gallery who needs to sell a very expensive picture that costs $22 million. Some people want to buy it, but it is not easy to make them buy it. Some people would say it is easy. Indeed, there is a simple way to settle the problem: to sleep with the clients. That is the way Madonna-s heroine acts, even regardless of the fact that women make up half of potential clients. Madonna seduces women right on the stage, the audience is ecstatic of it.

So, there is nothing surprising in it. It is up to ourselves, how we see the world.

Larisa Suetenko
PRAVDA.Ru

Posted by: Aaron Chase

Interesting article.....Very interesting.....

Posted by: Khashyar

Hi Aaron...

We haven't really talked about homosexuality in Russia before...

Although I am not aware of anyone writing in this forum who is gay, but... maybe having talked about it has revealed something further about Russian and Western cultures....

Khashyar

Posted by: Aaron Chase

Yeah, it is a little strange the subject came up, since most of us are after the opposite sex afterall. But my brother happens to be gay, so I'm sort of glad you brought it up actually. You never know, maybe even he might find a russian man in his future. But I don't really talk to him much about his preference, so I'm not sure if it's in his cards or not.....

Posted by: Samurai_Bob

Your brother should consider Russia.

I'm very glad I did!

When more western gays take a look at the advances in our human rights there, and how beautiful all the people are there, not just the ladies, it will become quite the trend.

Hundreds of successful long term relationships between the Ukraine and the Eu have already happened.

It will be very good for all of us.
Gay people have a magic for bringing different people together and we are of all races, and backgrounds.

Unisex trends are popular for young people who are seeking their identities.
Most will turn out straight, or live in same sex relationships during early adulthood for economic reasons. They were never gay.

True gays are born and have no choice in our orientation.

We are, and always will be a very small minority.

Posted by: martin3030

Does this mean men will see a reduction in Female scammers ?

Posted by: Samurai_Bob

I fear an increase in male scammers!

Posted by: martin3030

Quote:

Originally Posted by Samurai_Bob

I fear an increase in male scammers!

oops............of course I nrver thought of that !!

Posted by: Samurai_Bob

Although I am not aware of anyone writing in this forum who is gay, but... maybe having talked about it has revealed something further about Russian and Western cultures....

Let me be the first, again.

Khashyar

Thank you for that article. There is no better way than showbusiness to help people who are different understand each other.

I was very impressed with the facts there, and see much hope for change in Russia for the gays there in time.

At least they are not moving backwards. That is progress.

Oh there will be problems I am sure.

There is a saying among gays in the American cities:

Today's basher-tomorrow's trade.
Today's trade-tomorrow's competition!

Coming out is like being born again.
Some have it easy, some have it hard, and a few are violent and fight it.

We would much rather see them fight than put a gun in their mouth.

Posted by: instantorture

That's an interesting article!! Homosexuality should no longer be seen as a taboo..people should have some freedom too! In fact, this will b like..a way for decrease in population!!

I guess that's it!

Posted by: Samurai_Bob

There are Sociology theories that say just that and explain why the greatest percentage of gays are in unrban highly populated areas.

Posted by: Federico

Quote:

Originally Posted by Samurai_Bob

There are Sociology theories that say just that and explain why the greatest percentage of gays are in unrban highly populated areas.

Id like be get in touch with gay guys in Russia.
Federico from Buenos Aires
fspoliansky@gmail.com
For cultural reasons email me.

Posted by: Federico

Id like be get in touch with gay guys in Russia.
Federico from Buenos Aires
fspoliansky@gmail.com
For cultural reasons email me.

Posted by: Samurai_Bob

Quote:

Originally Posted by Federico

Id like be get in touch with gay guys in Russia.
Federico from Buenos Aires
fspoliansky@gmail.com
For cultural reasons email me.

Hea Federico,
Welecome to the RMP.
This is a 99.9999% straight forum group but a great bunch of people.

There is a very popular Russian gay website that has a friend finder and message board.

Here it is with the english translation:
http://www.gay.ru/english/

Good luck.

Posted by: niksa

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Posted by: youlek

Quote:

Originally Posted by Federico

Id like be get in touch with gay guys in Russia.
Federico from Buenos Aires
fspoliansky@gmail.com
For cultural reasons email me.

I wonder how they'll react in an Embassy