#lgbt russia

[kit-catrock]

I just discovered that there was a person who was afab and ended up joining the russian army by the name of Alexander Durov in 1806.

Born a woman, Nadezhda Durova (birth name) ran away from home and joined a light cavallery regiment dressed as a man.

After his identity was uncovered, the russian tsar summoned him to the palace at St. Petersburg, where he impressed the tsar so much that he awarded Durov the Cross of St. George and promoted him to lieutenant in a hussar unit.

He always referred to himself as a man and was upset when people called him a woman.

He signed letters with his male last name.

He expressed feelings of disgust towards his sex and how that worried him a lot.

He never married willingly and adopted many dogs and cats.

He only danced with women when attending a ball.

He asked to be buried under his male name Alexander Andreevich Alexandrov but the church did not agree to that.

I never saw him in "historical transmasculine people" compilations and only discovered his story coincidentally.

Unfortunately, historians still adress him with female pronouns, although he did not want that.

Let's remember him together. We won't allow him to be forgotten.

I'll probably add onto this post later or make a better one but you can read a lot on this wikipedia article:

[notimeforlaugh]

pride moth in russia finally

such a shame it is both the first and the last

[deadandcheerful]

The Supreme Court of Russia declared LGBT an extremist organization. The bastards hid their faces when they announced the decision 🤡🤡🤡

[my-skull-is-full-of-sunken-ships]

Hi, I'm an extremist now:)

[vvitchynerd]

ЛГБТ в России, моя ситуация и первый пост с русским языком. (english translation below)

Мой блог маленький, я лишь мелкий художник что иногда просыпается от бед с менталкой и рисует своих скучненьких персонажей, но сегодня я решил высказаться.

Я узнал о решении суда вечером, почти ночью если я помню, и это заставило меня зарыдать на несколько часов третий день подряд. Моя жизненная ситуация сейчас чуть лучше бомжа на улице, отличаясь лишь наличием дома и электричества, и эта новость, пожалуй, окончательно добила мое итак шаткое психическое здоровье.

Моя конкретная ситуация в том, что у меня и единственных родных с кем я имею контакт нет карты. Отсутствие карты значительно сокращает мои опции в плане поисков работы, ведь любые деньги сейчас кидают исключительно на карту. Новую карту заводить бессмысленно - арестуют за долги либо будут списывать любые деньги что будут поступать туда. Из-за отсутствия работы у меня и моей матери почти нет никаких денег. Мы голодаем днями вплоть до того, что уже становится визуально заметно, а просить помощи не у кого.

Из моей ситуации, думаю, не сложно понять что сбежать из России я не могу. И честно говоря, сейчас сбежать активно хочется только на тот свет, ведь доступ есть только туда. Да и в моей ситуации ликвидироваться туда очень даже близко.

К чему это я. Я вовсе не плачусь, поверьте. Отплакал уже свое, да слез больше нет уже. Я обычный человек, никакой не активист и казалось бы объявление ЛГБТ экстремистской организацией меня не особо касается, но у меня к сожалению есть мозги. Открою довольно личный факт - в моем паспорте стоит маркер "ж", но женщиной как и мужчиной я не являюсь, я небинарная идентичность использующая он/его в русском языке. Я отлично понимаю, что после лгбт они дойдут до всех с маркером "ж" в паспорте, аборты вон уже хотят запретить. Я, к счастью, асексуал и пока что до меня это не добралось, но мы русские ведь все прекрасно понимаем к чему по ТВ говорят о "демографической яме". Я скажу от всего сердца - мне сташно. Мне страшно жить.

В связи с тем, что я вижу как многие люди сидят, поджав хвост, во мне растет ненависть к русским людям. Я понимаю, страшно, мне тоже страшно, но все так и будут сидеть терпеть пока за кислород налог не создадут? Пока расстрелы не вернут? Доносы вон, уже вернули. Я не представляю как люди могут сидеть со своим достатком в зарплату меньше чем пособия в европейских странах и думать что до них не доберутся. Поверьте мне, доберутся, всегда доберутся.

Извиняюсь за такой длинный пост, у меня накопилось много чувств и мыслей по моей ситуации в жизни. Я не говорю всем русским ненавидеть себя за страх, да и навряд ли этот пост кто-то вообще прочитает, также я и не надеюсь на помощь "запада". Меня просто раздражает, что парочка шакалов запугала миллионы людей.

English Translation:

LGBT in Russia, my situation and first post including russian language.

My blog is rather small, I'm just an artist with little to no auditory that sometimes wakes up from their mental problems and draws their silly boring characters, but today I decided to speak up.

I first learned of court's decision when it was evening, even night i think, and it sent me into tears for third day in a row. My life situation currently is a bit better than that of a homeless man, things that are different is I still have home and electricity, and this news about court decision I think finally broke my already weak mental health.

My exact situation is - me and only relatives I have contact with doesn't have debit cards. Not having a card shrinks my job options a lot, since nowadays everyone sends money to card only. Creating new card is just useless - it will get blocked for debt or any money will get Immediately taken away. Because I don't have a job and my mother only has one that pays poorly, we have almost no money. We starve for days to the point of it being visible, but there's nobody to ask for help.

With this description I think it's understandable that I can't leave russia. And to be honest only place I can leave to is dead realm. In my situation honestly it's not that far away.

What am I trying to say with this? I'm not crying, trust me. I cried so much already I don't have tears anymore. I'm just a normal person, not an LGBT activist or anything, and you might think that decision to claI'm LGBT as extrI'mist doesnt touch me at all, but sadly I have brain. I'll open up about something rather personal - I have "F" marker in my passport, but I'm a not man nor am I a woman, I'm nonbinary. I understand clearly that after LGBT they will go for AFAB people, they're already trying to ban abortion. I am asexual and abortion ban won't reach me for some time, but we russians already know that this "demographic hole" talks on TV lead to. I'll say with all of my heart - I'm scared. I'm scared to live.

Since I'm seeing how other people just sit like scarady cats on their tails, hate for russian people grows in me. I understand, they're and we're scared, I'm afraid too. But are you willing to wait until they'll create oxygen tax? Until they'll bring back shooting people? They already brought back telling on people. I just don't understand how people could sit with their salary that is not even compatable with money struggling people in Europe get and think russian goverment won't get to them. They will, they certainly will.

I'm sorry for such a long post, I just had so many feelings and thoughts about situation. I'm not telling every russian to hate themselves for fear, and I don't think many people would see this post, neither am I hoping for help from America and Europe. I'm just annoyed that some jackals managed to scare millions of people.

[zhensheng]

my country doesn't need me

yesterday, november 30, 2023, supreme court of my state recognized "the international LGBT movement" as an extremist organization. they say this will come into effect from january 10, 2024. the trial was held behind closed doors; even journalists were not allowed into it. the ministry of justice sued the air for 4 hours.

almost every day college teachers say i am the hope for my county, i am it's future. that it needs me as a specialist. that it needs me, that it loves me.

and then i open news and read that my state attacked the neighboring one, early in the morning, without declaring war. just like fucking hitler, in honor of the victory over which millions of dollars are spent on a parade every year.

read that for participation in this fucking war maniacs, rapists and murderers who were in jails and were pardoned by the president are returning to society. and they keep killing and harming people.

read that official representatives directly say that women do not need to receive higher education, but only give birth, give birth, give birth. just because they need more cannon fodder.

read that they banned transgender transition, calling it “sex change”, and now millions of transgender people are in danger.

read that the director of one of the schools wrote a denunciation against her own students for criticizing the authorities. and then she becomes one of the best teachers in the country.

read that a criminal case was opened against children aged 10 and 11 for “desecration” of the monument to the Great Patriotic War. criminal liability for murder in my country begins at age 14.

read that the whole world abandoned the citizens of my state just because of its government's actions. in addition to those in power, another 150 million people live here.

read that i was compared to al-qaeda, taliban and nazis just because I love my girlfriend. me, my acquaintances and friends, millions of people. from january 10, 2024, they will be able to give us 12 years in prison for “displaying extremist symbols". but the taliban are meeting with the president, and the police can beat me up for rainbow scarf.

read all of that and realize that my country doesn't fucking need me. neither as a specialist, nor as a citizen, nor as a person.

my country doesn't need me. it doesn't appreciate me. it doesn't love me.

my country doesn't need us, and this is a personal tragedy for 150 million of people.

моим русским читателям и всем россиянам, которые это увидят: ребята, вы не одни. нам всем тяжело, и к сожалению сейчас мы вряд ли сможем это изменить. но мы есть друг у друга, нас много, и мы любим. мы вместе. пожалуйста, берегите себя, не отчаивайтесь, и знайте, что самый тёмный час перед рассветом. всё пройдёт, всё проходит когда-то, и россия воспрянет от сна🕊️

[azathothsdreamgrrl]

"resist psychic death": coined by kathleen hanna, the lead singer of bikini kill.

when you feel like you alone are not powerful enough to make a change remember that change isn't one person's effort. remember that there are likeminded people who are all doing their part. and don't lose hope; every action you take is part of the process.

[nickysfacts]

Russia traditionally was a very accepting place for LGBT individuals!

🏳️‍🌈🇷🇺🏳️‍🌈

[pigeon-system-boys]

I'm starting (not legal) T today and I'm scared. I will be not able to change passport sex or name from female to male. I will not be able to tell about me being trans after showing my passport to, for example, buy beer. I must not wear makeup after starting oassing as male, or wear dresses - it can be seen as "propaganda", and your dear friend will be sent to police and pay check or go to jail.

[not-a-21st-century-girl]

I was just cleaning up storage space on my google drive and stumbled upon a pic of me on an anime fest in a big park in the center of the city, wrapped in a rainbow flag. It's from 2018. Back then pretty much any big and somewhat fandom-related event had at least several people walking around with lgbt+ flags or t shirts or pins or something, it was just normal.

It was 5 years ago. Russia was already an authoritarian repressive regime and had been for quite a while. Putin had just started his 4th presidential term. It had been 4 years since the annexation of Crimea and since the war in Donbas started. We'd had a law against "gay propaganda" among minors for 5 years already and it's been used against activists lots of times.

And yet, at least in Moscow, you could go to an anime fest held in the most popular park of the city wrapped in a rainbow flag, and no one really cared. No one even cared that much if you were a minor. I'm 15 in that photo.

If you tried that now, you're probably gonna be arrested on sight. I doubt you'd make it from the metro station to the park gates, way too many police officers there.

Again: things were already shit back then. Really shit. And still, from today's perspective, it seems almost like an impossible utopia.

So, really, it just struck me how little time it can take for everything to become this way, how things that would come as a huge shock just a few years ago can become a routine, even if no less terrifying. And, you know, it kinda frights me to think about what else will we have to go through before things could get better again.

[motsimages]

The first drag queen show I ever saw in my life was in Russia. It was 2008. They hired a group of drag queens from Moscow and brought them to a local disco in some lost Ural city. It was an spectacular show and I only regret having a poor level of Russian because I missed many jokes. This does not mean that gay people were happily out in the open, but in 2009 there was a movie about drag queens in Moscow, so it was still better allowed to do these things.

That year, I also met a gay man in his 40s. He was friends with a group of 40-50 year-old swingers and one of them happened to be my student of French. This gay man was the most interesting one in this party and I always regretted not being able to get his contact details, we got along immediately.

4 years later, in that same city, a friend of mine who had a gay friend invited us all out to the gay bar. It was far from the city centre, in some building with no lights outside. Compared to the very decorated and aesthetic bars, cafes and discos I had been in Russia, this one felt temporary. It had almost no decoration and no light work. Chairs were swimming pool chairs. It was half empty, and amongst the small vibrant young community there, a couple of man and woman in their forties caught my eye. They were quiet, just having some drinks looking at the ambiance. They looked like neighbours who decided to take a drink before going home in the closest bar, and it happened to be this one, they probably had a shared story with the rest of the clientele.

That same year, I went to Kazan and people knew there was a gay bar near a very recognisable place in the city center. I could never find it on my own and I knew I could only enter with an invitation. I have visited friends in the area later on, in one of my last trips to Kazan, around 2017? I was surprised to see two young lesbians hugging and snuggling in a hipster bar of the city center. A Russian gay roommate I had in Madrid around that time, where I also shared a flat with a very out Spanish lesbian girl, took months to even mention he liked boys. In Madrid. He was surprised that men would just hold hands in the street with their boyfriends.

From what a friend of mine has shown me from music in her teenage years, there was some possible turning point in the early 2000s where some gay men and some lesbian women made music and were relatively out in the public eye. Outside of Russia, we know of T.a.t.u., but there were many others. Several of the men casually married to women around 2010 and said that they were only gay for marketing purposes, not really gay. I particularly think of Shura (after min 1:15).

I was in Russia for the elections in, I think it was 2012. There were demonstrations and the Dean of the university where I worked gathered many teachers and told us that we should forbid our students to go demonstrate (it took him a long while because he started of saying "we must look out for them, let them know it's dangerous and they could end up in prison" but professors wouldn't agree, students were old enough to make their own decisions).

Over the past ten-fifteen years, many things have been happening in Russia, little by little. I think the last drop has been the war. Up until that moment, it was tiny changes here and there, but the war has been a big distraction so no need to hide anything anymore.

I have interpreted for Russian asylum seekers who left the country because they oposed the war and didn't want to go to the front. They were in associations agains the war and so, they were deemed not only desertors but extremists.

This past year, every month we have received Russian asylum seekers who were gay and/or opposed to the war. Many are going to Kazakhstan, Turkey or any other countries where no visa is needed. Many need to go through Georgia to be able to open a bank account that they can use in Europe while not being tracked by Russia.

I worry about my friends too. A mother of three with a son who soon will be 18, of age to go to the army and probably not the means to stop it. I worry about the friends who don't know what it means that so many people are being labeled extremists, those who are doing things "right", but how right can you do them until they're not right anymore because they're single or divorced or childless or working or unemployed or too young or too old?

I may have noticed these changes more than my friends because I have not been living in Russia in the long term, I came back every couple of years and things were harder. Moscow looks like a modern city, every couple of years looks more and more like Europe. But some things were never open to begin with and the window where they could have changed was a very small one.

[daulliriton]

Еее, жду этот день также сильно, как свой день рождения😊

Eee, I look forward to this day as much as I look forward to my birthday.

P.S. For English speaking people. The date written on the screen is International Day of Visibility for Non-Binary People, and I’m just a non-binary person, agender, that’s why I’m waiting for this day, heheh

Are there agenders here too? With whom to celebrate our day?😊

[the-last-hipopotamovolador]

Icon of my favourite queer russian character becsuse, NO MATTER WHAT LAWS ARE MADE, NOT MATTER WHAT, QUEER COMUNITY WILL ALWAYS EXIST IN RUSIA AND ALL AROUND THE WORLD.

Feel free to use and i know its just and icon and is stupid but i hope that it makes any queer russian fan of yoi out there a little happy.

[legacy-of-bast]

update on the article 6.21

Roskomnadzor approved the criteria for “LGBT propaganda”. According to it, supervisory authorities will block sites where they see:

— information about the attractiveness of non-traditional sexual relations;

— information that creates a distorted idea of the social equivalence of traditional and non-traditional sexual relations;

— justifying the rejection of traditional sexual relations in favor of non-traditional ones;

— information that arouses interest in non-traditional sexual relations and is capable of changing a negative attitude to a positive one;

— as well as aimed at forming a positive attitude towards a change in the sex of a person.

The document was approved by Roskomnadzor and registered by the Ministry of Justice. From September 1, 2023, it should enter into force and be valid for 6 years. All sites with “forbidden” information will be entered into a special register and blocked. At the same time, the order states that the law will not affect fiction and scientific literature.

[ohnoaname]

So LGBTQ+ is now completely illegal in Russia. I wonder if anyone going to talk about that. I'm so tired