Kissing as a sign of friendship/goodwill is not a sign of homosexuality or of acceptance of homosexuality. It is deeply tasteless to use it as an example of being "super gay".
How do you explain the continued prevalence of gay culture in a country that has so militantly sought to oppress it?
Your claim about the "prelevance" of gay culture in USSR is based on a link to a lengthy and wordy PDF of an introduction and one chapter from an academic volume. It is a vague theoretical/methodological text about studying not just USSR but Central and East Europe during and after socialism. I don't intend to scrutinise the pages and pages of the Foucaultian language to wring out some potential proof for your claim, what is needed is actual documentation. In fact I'm wondering if you yourself have read and understood the PDF.
If by "gay culture" you mean cultural output with LGBT themes, that effectively didn't exist in USSR (or at least in Russia, that I'm slightly more familiar with). We can go look for specific examples to check that. If by "gay culture" you mean gay people managing to survive away from the public eye and having some small communities, that's an unacceptably low bar. By that logic you could make excuses for just about every repressive regime that didn't completely eradicate its "enemies".
If you're arguing against the idea that USSR was the most henious country against LGBT in history, yeah, that's likely not true. But nobody was claiming that. OP text is (I believe) a reaction to the current touting of the progressive sexual victories in the earliest years of the Union while making little mention of their reversal and the overall bleak situation for most of the country's history.
That makes sense, I suppose the bootleg song Heavy Metal Kids was also from that proto-Neu period? Because as great as it is it's such a different aesthetic...
Btw what are your thoughts on early Kraftwerk/Organisation in general? Do you enjoy those albums? I found them wildly varying in quality, ranging from incredible to unlistenable...
Kraftwerk has at one point or another not had each of its core members. The only original member now is Hütter, but he left the band briefly in the early 70s (when they were still doing psychedelic rock) so nobody has been in the band continuously. And even though they typically have 4 members, a total of 21 musicians has rotated through the group.
Idk if that quite counts, but it's close at least.
They did sing "wir sind die Roboter", and robots are replaceable, so I guess it's an appropriate band history. But, the output has still declined...
Well, for accessing paywalled articles .org is no replacement for .ph/.today, sadly. But it's advisable to use it as little as possible, it seems using visitors for DDoS'ing the blog is still going on.
OTOH you may have missed the communication even if you were on Facebook. These days your feed is just 1/3 the groups you're in and pages you've liked, 1/3 is the "recommended for you" random garbage, and 1/3 is ads. I've missed many notifications for events that interested me, they'd pop up a few days after the event actually took place.
Kissing as a sign of friendship/goodwill is not a sign of homosexuality or of acceptance of homosexuality. It is deeply tasteless to use it as an example of being "super gay".
Your claim about the "prelevance" of gay culture in USSR is based on a link to a lengthy and wordy PDF of an introduction and one chapter from an academic volume. It is a vague theoretical/methodological text about studying not just USSR but Central and East Europe during and after socialism. I don't intend to scrutinise the pages and pages of the Foucaultian language to wring out some potential proof for your claim, what is needed is actual documentation. In fact I'm wondering if you yourself have read and understood the PDF.
If by "gay culture" you mean cultural output with LGBT themes, that effectively didn't exist in USSR (or at least in Russia, that I'm slightly more familiar with). We can go look for specific examples to check that. If by "gay culture" you mean gay people managing to survive away from the public eye and having some small communities, that's an unacceptably low bar. By that logic you could make excuses for just about every repressive regime that didn't completely eradicate its "enemies".
If you're arguing against the idea that USSR was the most henious country against LGBT in history, yeah, that's likely not true. But nobody was claiming that. OP text is (I believe) a reaction to the current touting of the progressive sexual victories in the earliest years of the Union while making little mention of their reversal and the overall bleak situation for most of the country's history.