Queer Periodicals in Post-Soviet Russia : From Leningrad Underground to Transnational Publishing

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Queer Periodicals in Post-Soviet Russia : From Leningrad Underground to Transnational Publishing Gleissner, Philip

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After the decriminalization of homosexuality and the lifting of censorship, a new queer culture began to develop in 1990s Russia. This moment was accompanied by the emergence of new literary voices, publishing enterprises, and periodicals. As we know today, this period of freedom and relative safety was a short-lived one. In this lecture, Dr. Gleissner looks at the unique features of 1990s Russian print media, especially literary and cultural magazines that served a community of queer authors and readers. He analyses layout designs, key content elements, and editorial tactics. The periodicals’ embeddedness in transnational and diasporic cultural practice and in the strategies of late Soviet dissidence, he argues, shaped their unique historical trajectory, their moments of success and their challenges.

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Title	Queer Periodicals in Post-Soviet Russia : From Leningrad Underground to Transnational Publishing
Alternate Title	Queer Periodicals in Post-Soviet Russia : From Underground to Transnational Publishing
Creator	Gleissner, Philip
Contributor	University of British Columbia. Department of Central, Eastern and Northern European Studies
Date Issued	2021-03-26
Description	After the decriminalization of homosexuality and the lifting of censorship, a new queer culture began to develop in 1990s Russia. This moment was accompanied by the emergence of new literary voices, publishing enterprises, and periodicals. As we know today, this period of freedom and relative safety was a short-lived one. In this lecture, Dr. Gleissner looks at the unique features of 1990s Russian print media, especially literary and cultural magazines that served a community of queer authors and readers. He analyses layout designs, key content elements, and editorial tactics. The periodicals’ embeddedness in transnational and diasporic cultural practice and in the strategies of late Soviet dissidence, he argues, shaped their unique historical trajectory, their moments of success and their challenges.
Subject	Periodicals; Media; Homosexuality; Censorship; Publishing; Dissidence; Russia; Post-Soviet
Type	Sound; Moving Image
Language	eng
Series	Sawchen lecture series
Date Available	2021-03-31
Provider	Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
DOI	10.14288/1.0396428
URI	http://hdl.handle.net/2429/77674
Affiliation	Non UBC
Peer Review Status	Unreviewed
Scholarly Level	Faculty
Rights URI	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Aggregated Source Repository	DSpace

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