This LGBT Museum Is Where You’d Least Expect It

Yahoo ^ | Tuesday, November 29, 2022 | Maxwell Keller

[SunkenCiv]

Visitors to Russia's first museum of LGBT culture, which opened in St. Petersburg on November 27, are greeted by a portrait of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.

Tchaikovsky – the 19th century composer of the Nutcracker, among other works – is arguably one of the most famous gay Russians.

Pyotr Voskresensky – a more contemporary gay Russian – got the idea to open the museum after a visit to Tchaikovsky's house in Klin. "The estate and the house interiors were completely scrubbed," Voskresensky told Radio Free Europe. "There was no hint of the composer's personal life."

"The context of the opening of this museum is important," continues Voskresensky, “because our country is in a period of its transformation into a total dictatorship, and it is being built on a new ideology in which history plays a key role.”

While the Russian government tries to pretend that "this imaginary past contains only 'traditional values,'" says Voskresensky, the reality is that "there have been gays in Russia" for centuries.

The museum contains about three dozen items, including sculpture, jewelry, and books. Among them are four cameos of Antinous, believed to have been the lover of Emperor Hadrian. Two of these cameos were made in the Soviet Union in the 1950s.

However, Voskresensky's museum might be closed as soon as it is opened. On November 24, Russia passed heightened legislation against LGBT "propaganda." It is expected to become law on December 1.

Even if it Voskresensky's museum is forced into exile, LGBT history will continue to stand, albeit less brazenly, in St. Petersburg's State Hermitage Museum.

"Let them try to remove and ban it all," says Voskresensky. "They can't do it."

[SunkenCiv]

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[albie]

Any BS LGBTQ Museum belongs in a dumpster. I don’t EVEN want to know what the displays are

[SunkenCiv]

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Antinous

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Hadrian

[SunkenCiv]

[ProtectOurFreedom]

"The museum contains about three dozen items, including sculpture, jewelry, and books." A couple of millennia of faggotry and that's all they can come up with?

[SunkenCiv]

All the gay sex toys are still in use.

[Verginius Rufus]

The Hermitage has a lot of ancient coins. They could have an exhibit of coins featuring the portraits of homosexual or bisexual Roman emperors (quite a few of those).

[gloryblaze]

Oh, oh! Some Putin fans here are going to be torqued.

[PGR88]

What is it about homosexuals that they don’t merely engage in sexual fetishes - but have a nearly universal urge to glorify and promote their fetishes?

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Isn’t that the truth. It seems like only yesterday when they were arguing “We just want to be left alone in the privacy of our bedrooms.”

[L,TOWM]

The original handwritten process for making KY Jelly?

[SunkenCiv]

Quite.

[Michael.SF.]

I've actually been to this place (curiosity got the best of me). I'd rather go there again than the Gay museum:

[G Larry]

Funny, I did a college term paper on Tchaikovsky in 1975 and at the time, had no clue he was gay.

[SunkenCiv]

As a composer, he also used to score a lot.

[TalBlack]

“Visitors to Russia’s first museum of LGBT culture, “

Or “gay porn” as it’s more usually known…

[Tell It Right]

"As a composer, he also used to score a lot."

ROTFLMCFASHWUAO!!!

[Deplorable American1776]

Crazy... Okay one of my daughter’s friends is gay. Polite young man. Daughter said he’s the only guy who is hanging with us that isn’t interested in sex with us. My daughter is 15 and she would be called a RINO here. She’s against abortion, but she supports gay marriage and adoption.

[1956tbyrd]

When he died, he went from composing to decomposing.

[algore]

Don’t forget this one, even though not technically lgbtquatever

https://phallus.is/en/