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This LGBT Museum Is Where You’d Least Expect It
Yahoo ^ | Tuesday, November 29, 2022 | Maxwell Keller

Posted on 11/30/2022 9:40:24 AM PST by 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."

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TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: antinoos; antinous; genderdysphoria; godsgravesglyphs; hadrian; homosexualagenda; romanempire; russia; tchaikovsky; uranus; uranusjokes
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To: G Larry

Is it known for sure that Tchaikovsky was “gay” or is that just a rumor? Some people have peddled the notion that Abraham Lincoln (father of four) was a homosexual based on pretty flimsy evidence (enough to satisfy the Log Cabin Republicans) but I think that is only accepted by those wanting to push the gay agenda.


21 posted on 11/30/2022 11:17:33 AM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

“We just want to be left alone in the privacy of our bedrooms.”

I think most gays feel that way.


22 posted on 11/30/2022 12:29:56 PM PST by cymbeline
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To: algore

Looks like a visit would be a whale of a good time. /rimshot


23 posted on 12/01/2022 8:36:24 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Tell It Right

“Is that a musical staff you’ve got there, or are you just happy to see us?”


24 posted on 12/01/2022 8:56:01 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: 1956tbyrd

I prefer Chi Coltrane to Tchaikovsky. ;^)


25 posted on 12/01/2022 9:00:06 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv

If psalto staff, wear staccatos. Hopefully the crescendo doesn’t result in triplets.


26 posted on 12/01/2022 9:08:51 AM PST by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: G Larry

Are you sure he was gay? If gay people are to be believed, every person who did something noteworthy in history was gay.


27 posted on 12/03/2022 9:04:46 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: Deplorable American1776

Women think every man wants to sleep with them.


28 posted on 12/03/2022 9:05:38 PM PST by nickcarraway
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