On Sat, 03 May 2003 06:28:57 -0400, Chris Doss <itschris13 at hotmail.com>
> A Russian friend of mine some time ago asked me if what he had read in a
> newspaper about a man in Alabama (?) in the 80s having been arrested for
> havinn sodomy was really true. His reaction was, "Not even in the darkest
> days of Stalin!"
The arrest that started Bowers vs. Hardwick @ The Supremes was in Georgia or Texas, methinks.
The first Soviet Constitution from 1921 or so, decriminalized homosexual acts. The, "Most Democratic Constitution in the World, " the 1936 Soviet Constitution, recriminalized.
<URL: http://www.gaylawnet.com/news/1997/de970712.htm > Repeal of Gay Sex Laws RUSSIA, Moscow - All seven European successor republics to the Soviet Union, Belarus ( on 1 March 1994), Estonia, Moldova, Russia, Latvia, Lithuania and Ukraine, have repealed the Soviet law that banned gay sex.
In the Asian republics, only Kazakhstan allows homosexuality.
In Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia, penal-code reform is underway that may lead to legalisation of gay sex.
Kyrgyzstan and Tajikstan are still using the old Soviet criminal code.
Uzbekistan instituted a new penal code and kept the Soviet ban which punishes sodomy between consenting adults with up to three years in prison.
(Capital Q No. 269, 05 November 1997 page 5 Web: http://www.capitalq.com.au/ Email: capq at capitalq.com.au)
Stan Persky, a gay canadian socialist has a travelogue, <URL: http://squawk.ca/lbo-talk/0303/0667.html > Stan Persky, a Canadian gay socialist has a good travelogue of his trip to the fSU. Simon Karlinsky @ UCB has published widely on Gays in Russia and the fSU, see his book on Pushkin, for example. Gay Sunshine Press has a racy anthology. Lenin sculpture + soft core gif. <URL: http://community.middlebury.edu/~moss/Outback.JPG <URL: http://community.middlebury.edu/~moss/OOB.html OUT OF THE BLUE: RUSSIA'S HIDDEN GAY LITERATURE-AN ANTHOLOGY Gay Sunshine Press) shatters the invisibility barrier. Edited by Professor Kevin Moss of Middlebury College, Vermont, OUT OF THE BLUE is a pioneering collection of literature on gay themes by 30 writers-from the early 19th century to the post-glasnost "New Russia"-superbly rendered into English... <SNIP>
Michael Pugliese
