#russian queers

[gorkaya-trava]

so, today we, russian queers, may become "extremists" by decision of russian supreme court and thus our existence will be silenced and erased. any queer activism will be impossible for us. I don't know what to do anymore. I was heartbroken when they passed the laws about "gay propaganda" and transgender people, now I'm just numb. I don't want to escape. I just want to live safely in my own country.

please hear us.

#lgbtq #lgbtqia #lgbtq community #lgbtqia rights #lgbtq rights #lgbt+ #lgbt rights #russia #russian lgbtq #lesbian #gay #bisexual #trans #transgender #queer #queer rights #russian queers

[oliveagainn]

HEY if you want to support LGBTQ+ folks outside Europe and USA you can watch this wonderful animation!!

It's about a Russian LGBTQ+ activist Elena Kostyuchenko and her project "Kissing day". Elena survived attempted poisoning (as experts believe), probably organised by the Russian government.

#i cried btw #lgbt #lgbt rights #lgbtq rights #queer rights #russia #russian queers #tw homophobia #tw transphobia #queer #lgbtq community #Youtube

[chattyghostlovesyou]

be gay do crimes but you really can go to jail for up to 12 years for demonstrating you're queer or if your neighbour/whoever will tell the police you're queer or if for some reason government decides you talk too much. you honestly don't even have to be queer to be thrown in jail. but when you (and like 90% of your friends) are it's just *chef's kiss*

so, russian queers, how are we doing today? I'm freaking out but definitely gonna live long enough to see somebody die in pain

#be gay do crimes #be gay do drugs hail satan #russia #russian queers #government can burn #gay rights #queer community #queer rights

[okrii]

"мы толерантно достаточно относимся к людям нетрадиционной сексуальной ориентации <...> никто их ни в чем не ограничивает" (с) путин

-хаха анекдот! любовь приравняли к пропаганде и угрозе общественному и государственному строю но всем у нас комфортно и никаких ограничений нет! тебя могут посадить за экстремизм просто потому что ты не цисгетеро но угнетения никакого нет! на госканалах цензурят радугу как природное явление но мы толерантные! мы хорошие! это смешно это просто смешно уже просто невыносимо смешно каждый раз одно и то же. ненавижу. как же я вас всех блять ненавижу.

#russian queers

[goldmanguyperson]

i really want to read more resources on queer culture in Russia but the resources? impossible to find. my Russian is not good enough to be able to find stuff in Russian, and I worry that much of it is being scrubbed as we speak too. The last time I tried to look all I could find was one ancient web 1.0 site with a light blue background (голубой… :) ) and many broken links. i need books or less broken websites or accounts or just anything. thank you

#I am not Russian this is just really important to me as someone with a long standing special interest and emotional investment in russia #i would be very happy if somebody could find me some detailed stuff about gay men in russia #it seems to be talked about less than lesbian women #russian queer culture #russian queers #queer culture #russia #квир #россия

[molchan-zoriann]

Regarding the current ongoings in russia

Two news stories, both happened in a span of just two days (links will be to the DOXA telegram channel - an opposition news media that opposed and keeps opposing the crazed government)

Delo LGBT+ (Дело ЛГБТ+), a former organisation of lawyers that aimed to protect rights of LGBTQ+ persons in russian courts, had to announce it's disbandment on Nov 30

On the night of Dec 02 LGBTQ+ clubs and saunas were raided by moscow city's police department.

I'm broadcasting this not in order to saw despair, but to, maybe, give some tangible proofs of how bad the situation is getting for those outside, who believe that all is not so dire

The decision of court from Nov 30 is yet to take effect in Jan 2024

These acts are not even legal by the standarts of russia's deranged law system

Please, if you can, sign petitions or send donations to organisations helping queers in russia right now.

Especially donations, since after Jan 2024 anyone supporting queer mutual aid orgs from inside russia will be regarded as terrorists as well

The following link to a post contains links for donations to organisations that are set to be hit under the court decision

#russian lgbtq #queer rights #queer erasure #russian queers #lgbtq rights #lgbtq #trans rights #gay rights

[a-gay-poptart]

I have found the best ally

Straight and cis people will say that they are allies, but you will NEVER measure up to my dentist.

Me: "Hey, is it ok if I can change my name on my info from [DEADNAME] to Sai?"

Random woman that I wasn't even talking to in the chair next to me: "Honey, if that's the name you had at birth, [DEADNAME] is your only name."

My dentist, very slowly turning her rolley chair towards the woman: "Shush."

Random woman: "Excuse me?"

Destist: *closes privacy curtain while staring bullets at the lady*

Me: *pissing myself laughing*

My dentist while changing my name in my info (reminder that English is not her first language, she immigrated from Russia): "There, Sai, you have pretty boy teeth. Smile and make all girls swoon."

Me not having the heart to tell her I'm not transmasc but I'm Agender, and still pissing myself laughing: "Thank you [DENTIST NAME]."

#trans pride #queer #nonbinary #lgbtqia #queer pride #queer community #lgbtq #lgbtq community #queer joy #queer jokes #queer journey #fuck transphobes #transgender #anti capitalism #anti zionisim #anti trans violence #trans ally #lbgtqia #gender is a social construct #Why are all Russians such good allies I stfg

[uncanny-tranny]

It's honestly frustrating that I've seen non-Russian queer people almost bragging about how they would be illegal in Russia, labeled an extremist or terrorist. Russian queers are in danger, their government has made it clear where it stands, and it's made this effort for the better part of a decade (even longer, perhaps). This will kill people, don't mistake this for a quirky little proclamation from a government, akin to somebody saying the sky is pink. Russian queer people were already expressing their fear, and the least we can do now is express our love for them, and advocate with them.

Russian queer people, I love you. I love you all so much. I am so sorry, I cannot begin to express the grief that I feel, and I hope that you are safe. Words cannot encapsulate how I feel as a non-Russian, and I cannot hope to comprehend how it feels to actually be in this situation.

#queer #lgbt #lgbtq #ofc this has been brewing for a long time and it has been really troubling to say the very LEAST #honestly i have seen russian queers joke about the situation which feels different. honestly it's almost admirable #i just can't find it funny to see non-Russians do it simply because the threat of prosecution or death for people is too high in my mind #it feels almost voyeuristic when non-russians joke like that to me #like i've joked about the state of (us)american queer rights when it feels too bleak but i live here #i guess when people only joke about it it tells me they don't think it's a big deal or that it won't affect queer people... #...because it won't affect them as an outsider likely #it's just shitty. all around. and it's the type of thing that i'm not sure what to do #queerphobia #queerphobia tw

[hopecel]

Help Francois' family to get a lawyer. Donation requsites:

Link to the original thread:

С российских карт можно тоже задонатить:

#queer svit #russian news #blm #black lives matter #boost #signal boost #fundraiser #francois ngelassili #françois ngelassili

[gorkaya-trava]

всем, кому нужно сейчас это услышать:

вы не одни. нас много, и никто не сможет заставить нас замолчать. оставайтесь сильными, продолжайте бороться, не прекращайте любить. мы переживём этот мрак – и после бури обязательно появится радуга. 🫂🏳‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

#lgbtqia rights #lgbt+ #lgbtq rights #lgbtq community #russian queers #russian queer rights #russian lgbtq #russian lgbtqia #lesbian #gay #bisexual #trans #trandgender

[couldoneimagine]

LGBTQ+ RIGHTS IN RUSSIA ARE BEING ERODED COMPLETELY

The ministry of justice in Russia has proposed to label "the global organization of LGBT" an extremist group. The court case is set to happen on the 30th of November. If passed, this measure will make LGBTQ+ activism near impossible. Activists could face up to 6 years in prison. Yes, 6 years for advocating for equal rights.

Despite the fact that lawmakers have no legal footing to judge "the global organization of LGBT" as an existing group, considering there is no hierarchy, no leader and no such name is used widely, this will probably be passed. And the lives of queer Russians will be in jeopardy.

I beg of you to spread this post. I know it's exhausting considering everything that's happening in the world. I know the genocide in Palestine is more pressing, I know the war in Ukraine is still happening, but please. We need to be heard. Someway. Somehow.

I'm Russian, I'm queer, I will not let this regime break me. no matter how hard it tries.

#lgbtq+ #important #spread #lgbt #lgbtq+ rights #lgbt rights #gay rights #queer rights #trans rights #transgender rights #lgbtq+ rights in russia #russian lgbtq+ #gay rights in russia #stop the war in Ukraine #spread awareness #stop the genocide #help queer people

[mutiny-huyutiny]

#yea i’m going to draw burda everytime russian government fucks up about queer rights #if someone doesn’t know ‘lgbt movement’ is extremist now and I can be imprisoned just because I exist #orr post my art. well. fuck them. #thank god they don’t know about tumblr existence #drawing #art #illustration #pathologic #artists on tumblr #digital illustration #digital art #daniil dankovsky #artemy burakh #мор утопия #даниил данковский #артемий бурах #бакаруспик #burakhovsky

[1unpunishable1]

So gay for her

#natasha lyonne #but im a cheerleader #gay #lesbian #queer pride #russian doll #orange is the new black #oitnb #crush #hopelessly in love #celebrity crush #love #crushes

[cannibalhellhound]

More wings au because if you don't use your wings as a blanket why do they even exist?

Mav is clingy and Ice loves it

I'll add watercolor tomorrow because it's 3am ✌🏼

(end result)

#Ice uses reading glasses #because i say so #he likes russian literature #queer russian literature is a thing idk where i read that #it's actually written in russian #mav used to be annoyed because he wanted yo read them too #but now he likes it because he's gotten the grasp of it #ice is really proud #now they have a habit of reading with mav perched on ice and cocooning him with his wings #it's cozy #slider joins them sometimes #grumbling in german #tg #tgm #top gun #top gun maverick #pete maverick mitchell #top gun fanart #icemav #fanart #tom iceman kazansky #top gun 1986 #iceman #maverick #iceman x maverick #trans pete maverick mitchell #because projecting is a thing #HelloI'mHayden

[fitz-higgins]

LGBT literature of the 1860s–1910s. Part 5

After a long pause, the list is back! Here we have a couple of plays, accounts by two trans women, lesbian poetry, and more.

1. Despised and Rejected, by A.T. Fitzroy (Rose Allatini; 1918). A pacifist novel published during World War One? With gay and lesbian characters? Yes, that was sure to get people in trouble. Its publisher was fined and the judge called it “morally unhealthy and most pernicious”. So, Dennis is a young composer who hates violence and therefore refuses to go to war. He also suffers because he is a “musical man”, that is, gay, and loves Alan, art-loving son of a wealthy businessman. His friend Antoinette, meanwhile, is “strangely attracted” to a woman. Nevertheless, the two attempt to love each other. When the war begins, Alan appears in Dennis’ life again, and they try to avoid being sent to the front together. Alan also persuades Dennis to accept who he is. Edward Carpenter himself defended the novel, saying that “the book is also a plea for toleration of a very much misunderstood section of humanity”. Read online

2. Autobiography of an Androgyne, by Ralph Werther (1918). Ralph Werther, also known as Jennie June, wrote this autobiography for doctors, and it is very revealing. Being a New York fairy (male prostitute) and possibly a trans woman, they tell frankly about the city’s gay underworld of the early 20th century and their personal experience, which is sometimes too frank and dark perhaps, but all the more interesting. Read online 

3. Poems by Mikhail Kuzmin. Kuzmin was not just the author of Russia’s first gay novel, but also a poet. Many of his works were dedicated to or mentioned his lovers. I’d recommend Where Will I Find Words (in English and Russian), Night Was Done (both in English and Russian), from the 1906-1907 collection Love of This Summer (available fully in Russian), mostly based on his love affair with Pavel Maslov in 1906. And also If They Say (in English and Russian), which is a great statement.

4. The Loom of Youth, by Alec Waugh (1917). A semi-biographical novel based on Evelyn Waugh’s older brother’s experience at Sherborne School in Dorset. It is a story of Gordon Caruthers’ school years, from the age of 13 to 19, and it is full of different stories typical for public schools, be it pranks and cheating exams or dorm life and sports. Although the homosexual subject was quite understated, the author implied that it was a tradition and open secret in public schools. The book became popular and soon caused a great scandal. Worth noting that before that Alec was expelled for flirting with a boy.  Read online 

5. Two Speak Together, by Amy Lowell (1919). Lowell was a famous American poet and lesbian. Many of her poems were dedicated to her lover, actress Ada Dwyer Russell, specifically the section Two Speak Together from Pictures of the Floating World. These poems are infused with flower imagery, which wasn’t uncommon for lesbian poetry of the time. Read online

6. De berg van licht/The Mountain of Light, by Louis Couperus (1905-1906). Couperus is called the Dutch Oscar Wilde for a reason: this is one of the first decadent novels in Dutch literature. It is also a historical one, telling about a young androgynous Syrian priest Heliogabalus who then becomes a Roman Emperor. Homoerotism, hedonism, aestheticism: Couperus creates a very vivid world of Ancient Rome. He also covered the topic of androgyny in his novel Noodlot, which was mentioned in Part 3 of this list. Read online in Dutch 

7. Frühlings Erwachen/Spring Awakening/The Awakening of Spring, by Frank Wedekind (1891, first performed in 1906). This play criticized the sexually oppressive culture prevalent in Europe at the time through a collection of monologues and short scenes about several troubled teens. Each one of them struggles with their puberty, which often leads to a tragic end. Like in The Loom of Youth, homosexuality is not the central focus of the play, but one character, Hänschen, is homosexual and explores his sexuality through Shakespear and paintings. The play was later turned into a famous musical. Read online in German or in English

8. Twixt Earth and Stars, by Radclyffe Hall (1906). Though it wasn’t known to many at the time, these poems were dedicated to women, some to Hall’s actual lovers. Read online

9. The Secret Confessions of a Parisian: The Countess, 1850-1871, by Arthur Berloget (published in 1895). This account is similar to the Autobiography of an Androgyne, albeit shorter. The author nowadays is thought to be a trans woman. They describe their love for women’s dresses, the euphoria from wearing dresses, makeup and wigs, the life as a “female impersonator” in Parisian cafe-concerts, and their love affair with a fellow prisoner. The autobiography is not available online, but you can read it in Queer Lives: Men’s Autobiographies from Nineteenth-Century France by William Peniston and Nancy Erber.

10. At Saint Judas’s, by Henry Blake Fuller (1896). This is possibly the first American play about homosexuality. It is very short. An excited groom is waiting for his wedding ceremony in the company of his gloomy best man. They are former lovers, and this short scene is not going to end well… Read online

Previous part is here

#lgbt literature #lgbt fiction #queer history #queer fiction #lesbian literature #russian literature #gay literature #gay history #spring awakening #lesbian history #blog: history #blog: literature

[comradevomit]

today, the supreme court of russia declared the non-existent "international lgbt movement" extremist. today, the supreme court of russia declared all russian queers to be extremists. they declared love and freedom illegal, extremist, and criminally punishable. some time before that, "gay propaganda" was banned in russia. this concept includes even the simplest manifestations of love. we cannot talk about ourselves, we cannot save ourselves, we cannot love, feel loved and protected in our country. if we fight for ourselves, we will go to jail. we were forbidden not only to love — they banned us. ordinary people who simply do not fit into their concept of "traditional" and "correct". so please

talk about us. hear us out. help us if you can.

#lgbt #lgbt+ #lgbtq #lgbtqia #lgbtq community #lgbtqia rights #lgbtq rights #lgbt+ rights #lgbt rights #russia #russian lgbtq #russian lgbt #queer rights #queer community #queerphobia #lgbtphobia #homophobia #transphobia #lesbian #gay #bisexual #transgender #trans #gay rights #lesbian rights #bisexual rights #trans rights #queer #russian queers #discrimination