My friend Alexander Kargaltsev has recently made headlines with this image above that was taken as a protest against Russia’s ‘racism and homophobia’.
I wrote about him and his exhibition about Russian gay asylum seekers in the US more than a year ago, and now he’s staging a new exhibition – “The Last Polaroids: Friends and Lovers” set to open at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art in New York on February 28.
Be sure to expect some friendly and lovely nudity, of course.
Alexander is also set for a new play, Crematorium:
Putin builds a Crematory in Russia to burn gays. Four couples are picked to test a new machine to turn them straight.
Get tickets here.
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Beautiful photos, but a shocking story behind them – where is humanity going?
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Sad to see whats going on in Russia — I just watched a Nightline News and they had a report on gays in Russia and how they are being beatin up and hated. Now they are fleeing and forced out of their own country– it really makes me sick!!!!!
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Спасибо Большое!!! С
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HOPE IT COMES TO LONDON UK
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Thanks again Kirill for a thought-provoking blog post and pictures, as well as the link to the article about the Zhukova photo. I hadn’t heard about that photo. I’m always a bit surprised and saddened to hear about the attitudes of homophobia, racism and xenophobia in Russia whereas back in the early eighties when I visited that country I found the people to be so warm and welcoming, once you got past the official façade, of course. But, sadly enough, there is homophobia, racism and xenophobia in all countries.
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