Fire Bird : Gay Propaganda

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Victor Jeffreys II

10/25/13 12:52PM

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Fire Bird: Gay Propaganda

Last night OR Books announced the publication of Gay Propaganda, a collection of stories and interviews with LGBT Russians, edited by Masha Gessen and Joseph Huff-Hannon. The dual language book, a provocative response to Russia's ban on "homosexual propaganda", will print in January 2014 in time for the Winter Olympics in Sochi. E-copies in Russian will be made available for free to anyone that wants them.

[Words on images by Artyom Matusov. Images by Victor G. Jeffreys II]

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cheerful_exgirlfriend Victor Jeffreys II 10/25/13 01:10PM

Ghosts of Tetris Past.

BabylonAndOn cheerful_exgirlfriend 10/25/13 01:37PM

I posted this before under another burner. From Sophia Parnok, Russia's first openly lesbian poet. It always seems apropos these days:

Rage, my blizzard-fire

My heart will burn to ashes,

my spirit rise from them.

I pray to all the martyrs

that the flame won't dim.

Rage, my blizzard-fire

in your thicket black,

until my spirit finds a

baptismal font inside the

blaze of seething fire.

cheerful_exgirlfriend BabylonAndOn 10/25/13 01:43PM

Very appropriate, sadly.

WonderfulKazzoo cheerful_exgirlfriend 10/25/13 02:28PM

Tetris gets a little (or a lot) sadder if you imagine the filled lines disappearing as deaths. Or parts of the different shapes being cut from them, like amputations. Yikes - dark times this Friday!

cheerful_exgirlfriend WonderfulKazzoo 10/25/13 02:36PM

That's a lot sadder!!

wookinpanub Victor Jeffreys II 10/25/13 01:06PM

These are never not annoying.

mark etapartme wookinpanub 10/25/13 01:16PM

Which is not what they are about.

I_AmDeath wookinpanub 10/26/13 02:51PM

And never not hipstery.

peakahhboo Victor Jeffreys II 10/25/13 01:10PM

This must be Gawker's attempt to make things right after that horrible Shep Smith story.

The Truth Victor Jeffreys II 10/26/13 03:45AM

What was the point of publishing this, Gawker?