the anti-soviet "conspiracy" that was just a gay wedding

patreon -   / shashanotsasha   in 1921, the Petrograd police raided a gathering of a secret counter-revolutionary organisation…which turned out to just be a gay party. the raid was also ordered by the very organiser. in this video, i discuss this unique legal case which involves conspiracies, early Soviet drag queens, career-driven party members, petty drama, and not one, but two gay weddings. sources: Dmitrienko, G. (2020). Redefining Translation Spaces in the Soviet Union: From Revisionist Policies to a Conformist Translation Theory. The Politics of Translation Studies, 32(1), 205–229. https://doi.org/10.7202/1068019ar Healey, D. (2001). Homosexual desire in Revolutionary Russia : the regulation of sexual and gender dissent. Khoroshilova, O. (2017, November 10). Russian gay community’s brief window of freedom. BBC News. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe... Хорошилова, О. (2016, June 15). Первые травести революционного Петрограда. Arzamas - Archived via the Wayback Machine. https://web.archive.org/web/201706081... Хорошилова, О. (2021). Русские травести в истории, культуре и повседневности. Руадзе, В. (1908). К СУДУ! Гомосексуальный Петербург. http://flibusta.site/b/562989/read Владислав Чирин. (2017, August 23). Как Петроград стал гей-столицей СССР? Бумага. https://paperpaper.io/khoroshilova-lgbt/ contact / my social media: tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/shashanotsasha instagram:   / shasha_shasheks   00:00 - intro 01:25 - quick translation & terminology note 03:28 - drag & queerness post-revolution 07:39 - january 15th, 1921 11:40 “so, how did you end up at the party?” 16:14 - “why are you gay?” 20:29 - secret counter-revolutionary gay organisation 23:44 - the other parties 25:47 - the original wedding 27:06 - female impersonators of revolutionary Petrograd 32:34 - Shaur’s wedding 35:47 “the most important part of any investigation…” 39:05 - a rather rare - somewhat - happy end