Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Gay Propaganda: Russian Love Stories
    Gay Propaganda: Russian Love Stories
    Gay Propaganda: Russian Love Stories
    Ebook471 pages5 hours

    Gay Propaganda: Russian Love Stories

    By editors, Joseph Huff-Hannon and Masha Gessen

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    Gay Propaganda brings together original stories, interviews and testimonial, presented in both English and Russian, to capture the lives and loves of LGBT Russians living both in Russia and in exile today. Available in February 2014, in time for the Winter Olympics in Sochi, the book is a provocative riposte to Russia’s recently passed and ill-defined ban on “homosexual propaganda.”

    As part of a strategy to consolidate political control in Russia following massive pro-democracy protests that shook the government, President Putin’s ruling party decided it needed an enemy to unite the country. Hoping to manipulate backward but widely-held prejudices, it opted to demonize gays and lesbians. As a result, in June 2013, Putin signed a bill banning any and all “propaganda” of so-called non-traditional relationships. Quite predictably, in the months that followed, attacks, firings, and hate crimes have spiked across Russia, and the state-sanctioned campaign shows no sign of abating. The Russian Duma is now debating a law to take children away from gay and lesbian parents.

    As the world’s media turns its attention to the host country of the Winter Olympics, the stories gathered in Gay Propaganda offer a timely and intimate window into the hardships faced by Russians on the receiving end of state-sanctioned homophobia. Here are tales of men and women in long-term committed relationships as well as those still looking for love; of those trying to raise kids or taking care of parents; of those facing the challenges of continuing to live in Russia or joining an exodus that is rapidly becoming a flood.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOR Books
    Release dateMay 1, 2014
    ISBN9781939293367
    Gay Propaganda: Russian Love Stories

    Read more from Editors

    Related to Gay Propaganda

    Related ebooks

    Relationships For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Let’s Talk About Sex

      Jun 28, 2022

      Let’s Talk About Sex
      2 min read

    • Article

      Atlas of Identity

      Nov 25, 2021

      A major tactic of modern transphobic rhetoric – especially against non-binary or genderfluid people – is that we’re making this up. That our identity isn’t rooted in anything. That it isn’t real. It’s imperative, then, to look at the history of gende

      16 min read

    • Article

      Dua Saleh

      Sep 17, 2021

      Dua Saleh
      7 min read

    • Article

      Okay Rina Sawayama

      Nov 22, 2021

      Okay Rina Sawayama
      4 min read

    • Article

      ‘Reading Is Resistance’: Students And Parents Take On DeSantis’s Book Bans

      Sep 23, 2023

      This summer, Iris Mogul – a junior at a Miami high school – found out that she wouldn’t be able to take an AP African American history course that she had planned for the coming semester because it had been blocked by the state’s department of educat

      4 min read

    • Article

      The Tiger king And I

      Mar 22, 2022

      The Tiger king And I
      6 min read

    • Article

      Book Of The Month

      May 28, 2021

      ERICA GILLINGHAM is a queer poet, writer and bookseller with a PhD in lesbian love stories and kissing. @ericareadsqueer Isabel Waidner Isabel Waidner’s writing is electric. Kinetic, peripatetic, suspect, the reader knows as little about where they a

      1 min read

    • Article

      The Secret Internet of TERFs

      Dec 8, 2020

      After they were banned from Reddit, trans-exclusionary radical feminists became the latest of many toxic communities to simply build their own platform.

      10 min read

    • Article

      Ways of Being

      Oct 13, 2019

      Ways of Being
      8 min read

    • Article

      Sexual Desire Can Spark A Real Connection

      Jan 9, 2019

      Sex helps initiate romantic relationships between potential partners, a new study finds. “Sex may set the stage for deepening the emotional connection between strangers,” says lead author Gurit Birnbaum, a social psychologist and associate professor

      3 min read

    • Article

      Who Made You King Of Everything? Angela Saini On The Origins Of Patriarchy

      Mar 4, 2023

      On the day Angela Saini talks to me from her book-lined study in New York, the patriarchy is hard at work all over the world. Anti-abortion protestors are getting ready to march on the Supreme Court in Washington, the Metropolitan police force is cau

      7 min read

    • Article

      Mary Sanchez: Blanket Boycotts Of Russians And Other Ill-thought Replies To Ukrainian Genocide

      Apr 22, 2022

      Solidarity, in the age of social media, is a simple thing. Until it needs to be real and impactful. In recent weeks, many people have empathetically posted an image of the Ukrainian flag on their social media or plopped an image of a sunflower atop t

      3 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for Gay Propaganda

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      Gay Propaganda - editors

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1