Gay soviet propaganda posters

These homoerotic Chinese-Soviet propaganda posters look more like a gay couple’s vacation pics, or maybe an ad for interracial gay marriage.

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How did Communist artists depict men kissing, holding hands, or embracing in their posters? Were they expressing a gay utopia or a fraternal bond? Explore the subversive and tender side of Socialist Realism with experts and examples.

China and Russia had long been allies and now, as communist states , that relationship was more important to both countries than ever before. Communist propaganda has always been an integral part of that particular political structure, and Chinese-Russian propaganda attests to how much each country wanted to show the world they had a united front - China and Russia walking hand-in-hand, happy and gay, so to speak. The posters they used to get this idea across, however, may have been a bit too literal.

These homoerotic Chinese-Soviet propaganda posters look more like a gay couple’s vacation pics, or maybe an ad for interracial gay marriage.

Words by Laura Feinstein. Less familiar is the tender side of this ideology. In The Gay Agenda: Homoeroticism in Communist Propaganda , a provocative online discussion last month between film historian Bader AlAwadhi , Chinese-born designer Zipeng Zhu , and Angelina Lippert , Chief Curator at the Poster House museum, an interesting question was posed: What if, through coded graphic design, the visual architects of Communism had sought not only to normalize queerness but to idealize it.

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