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I'm russian and this fact comes as a surprise to me to put it mildly, could you give a source please
Sure!
Sorry for the wikipedia analysis here, but if you look into it you can see how each sucsessive Tsar turned the screw incremently on gay people with more and more reforms against LGBT+ russians.
I think a study of LGBT history globally tbh tends to betray homophobes arguements that being gay is a modern thing, imo when we're left to our own devices free of class and religious oppression it tends to manifest as socially acceptable; which kind of goes against the 'its not natural!' bullshit.
Yeah sorry for not being clear it was specifically the phrase "Alexander.. implemented orthodox Christianity" that had me rolling. It happened a bit earlier than that.
And the actual criminalization happened under Nicholas I in 1835, specifically as a reaction to secular revolutionary movements in France (which decriminalized homosexuality). Also to align with Prussia and Austria which had punitive laws. The idea was to strengthen the church as a bulwark against uprisings.
Yeah thats fair, my understanding of this isnt great; I just knew the gist of that the tsars trended towards implementing reactionary policies but not the detail of it; do you have any good sources on this?
sources on what specifically?