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William769

(55,147 posts)
Wed Sep 18, 2013, 06:34 PM Sep 2013

Tchaikovsky Wasn't Gay Claims Russia's Culture Minister Vladimir Medinsky



A new biopic will not recognize the composer's love or sex life

According to The Guardian, "Medinsky claimed that there was no evidence to suggest the 19th-century composer was anything other than a lonely man who failed to find a suitable woman to marry."

Considering Russia's recent track record of anti-gay laws, Medinsky's statement isn't surprising. When news of a Tchaikovsky biopic surfaced, however, we wondered how the composer's personal life would be potrayed onscreen. Because the film is being produced with funding from the Russian government, it will allegedly ignore Tchaikovsky's sexuality completely.

The script went under a recent revision that wiped away any possibly queer innuendoes that wouldn't hold under Russia's gay propaganda laws.

The film's screenwriter, Yuri Rabove, added that the composer of Swan Lake and Sleeping Beauty was "a person without a family who was stuck with the opinion that he supposedly loves men."

http://www.out.com/entertainment/popnography/2013/09/18/tchaikovsky-wasnt-gay-claims-russias-culture-minister-vladimir
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Tchaikovsky Wasn't Gay Claims Russia's Culture Minister Vladimir Medinsky (Original Post) William769 Sep 2013 OP
ROFLMAO. Brickbat Sep 2013 #1
Holy crap! HappyMe Sep 2013 #2
This is what happens when people or Governments aren't held accountable. William769 Sep 2013 #4
Neither was Nureyev. nolabear Sep 2013 #3
Beat me to it! markpkessinger Sep 2013 #10
Hey, he's not gay. He just had relationships and sex with men. That's not gay... Gravitycollapse Sep 2013 #5
you can't have being gay associated with greatness JI7 Sep 2013 #6
I was in the former Soviet Union about a month and a half after he died. Brickbat Sep 2013 #7
i think the reaction among the ones i mention was more confusion JI7 Sep 2013 #8
No, Tchaikovsky wasn't gay... jmowreader Sep 2013 #9
he was just keeping busy because he hadn't found a woman he loved JI7 Sep 2013 #11
You're probably right... jmowreader Sep 2013 #13
Gay, and committed suicide to escape prosecution for such. nt msanthrope Sep 2013 #12

Gravitycollapse

(8,155 posts)
5. Hey, he's not gay. He just had relationships and sex with men. That's not gay...
Wed Sep 18, 2013, 06:41 PM
Sep 2013

That's...uhhh...bros being bros?

JI7

(89,262 posts)
6. you can't have being gay associated with greatness
Wed Sep 18, 2013, 06:47 PM
Sep 2013

when you are trying to push some idea about how gays are not equal as human beings .

btw, i remember hearing a story about how some people from the former Soviet Union were surprised to learn that Freddie MErcury was gay. i guess because they grew up being taught certain things which would not fit .

Brickbat

(19,339 posts)
7. I was in the former Soviet Union about a month and a half after he died.
Wed Sep 18, 2013, 06:50 PM
Sep 2013

All the people my age (college) grilled me about him. Was it true he was dead? Gay? Had AIDS? Over and over again. But never did I hear anything about how awful it was that he was gay or had AIDS. Not a word. Just sadness that he really was dead.

ETA to clarify: They were pretty sure he was dead, and pretty sure he was gay, and pretty sure he had AIDS. They had heard such things. None of it mattered beyond the fact he was dead.

JI7

(89,262 posts)
8. i think the reaction among the ones i mention was more confusion
Wed Sep 18, 2013, 06:56 PM
Sep 2013

i do find most who loved him continue to do so . and i'm speaking not just of russia here but even idiots in america . but there are people who are anti gay but they still love him. but they don't want to talk about him being gay or have it mentioned.

when i mention how it's part of who he was and the music he made they get offended. it should be kept private . as if it's comparable to something like having a bad addiction .

jmowreader

(50,562 posts)
9. No, Tchaikovsky wasn't gay...
Wed Sep 18, 2013, 06:58 PM
Sep 2013

His greatest joy was giving blowjobs, but we can't possibly think of a reason why you'd think he was gay.

JI7

(89,262 posts)
11. he was just keeping busy because he hadn't found a woman he loved
Wed Sep 18, 2013, 07:01 PM
Sep 2013

because one has to be in love to be attracted to someone ...............

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