Red closet the hidden history of gay oppression in the USSR
Part I: Under Stalin 1 Stalin decides to make male homosexuality a crime 2 A Scottish man stands up for the rights of Soviet homosexuals 3 A young man from Siberia comes to Moscow in pursuit of his dreams 4 A Soviet celebrity leads a double life and lives in quiet suffering 5 A visit to a bathhouse...
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Manchester
Manchester University Press
2023
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| Zusammenfassung: | Part I: Under Stalin 1 Stalin decides to make male homosexuality a crime 2 A Scottish man stands up for the rights of Soviet homosexuals 3 A young man from Siberia comes to Moscow in pursuit of his dreams 4 A Soviet celebrity leads a double life and lives in quiet suffering 5 A visit to a bathhouse ends in a nightmare 6 Soviet homosexuals travel to Siberia for "medical" treatment Part II: Under Khrushchev 7 Stalin s heirs deal with homosexuality in the GULAG 8 In which a murder occurs 9 Soviet jurists push for the decriminalization of sodomy 10 Soviet psychiatrists try to cure lesbianism 11 A KGB lieutenant goes rogue 12 Soviet doctors invent a new medical science and try to cure male homosexualityPart III: Under Brezhnev 13 Soviet jurists try to decriminalize consensual homosexuality 14 A married couple try to save their marriage 15 Yan Goland tries to cure a youth of his homosexuality 16 A jurist proposes to criminalize lesbianism 17 A former soldier is crippled with internalized homophobia 18 In which we learn about emerging gay activism in the USSRPart IV: Under Gorbachev19 A strange patient from Africa baffles Soviet doctors 20 Soviet officials try to protect the USSR from AIDS 21 The Soviet KGB becomes inspired by the American gay press 22 Soviet doctors find Soviet "Patient Zero" 23 Soviet homophobia hits its peak 24 Soviet homosexuals finally speak about themselves in public Epilogue: In which Boris Yeltsin decriminalizes consensual homosexuality - but homophobia remains Index Based on unique and previously undiscovered sources, this is the first book to tell the story of the oppression of LBGT people in the USSR |
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| Beschreibung: | xiii, 269 Seiten |
| ISBN: | 9781526167453 978-1-5261-6745-3 |