Queens and Rebels

36: Gay and Soviet - Part 4


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Homosexuality now re-criminalized faced brutal repression.  Stalin's death brought gradual and limited freedoms that unfortunately omitted attitudes and laws on gay life.   


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Sources:

- Healey, Dan. Homosexual Desire in Revolutionary Russia: the Regulation of Sexual and Gender Dissent. University of Chicago Press, 2004.

- Guskov, Kirill. “Gay Life in Stalin's Gulag.” OpenDemocracy, 11 Dec. 2018, www.opendemocracy.net/en/odr/gay-life-in-stalins-gulag/.

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Queens and RebelsBy Marta Cholovska