Putin as a gay clown
It's now illegal in Russia to share an image of Putin as a gay clown
WASHINGTON (WASHINGTON POST) - Russia has banned a picture depicting President Vladimir Putin as a potentially gay clown.
Russian news outlets are having trouble reporting exactly which image of the Internet's many Putin-gay-clown memes is now illegal to share. Because, you know, it's been banned.
But the picture was described last week on the Russian government's list of things that constitute "extremism".
Item a picture of a Putin-like person "with eyes and lips made up," captioned with an implicit anti-gay slur, implying "the supposed nonstandard sexual orientation of the president of the Russian Federation".
The Moscow Times thinks it looks prefer a poster that became trendy in , after Russia passed a law banning propagandising to children about "nontraditional sexual relations" and gay rights protesters were beaten and arrested.
But gay Putin memes have proliferated as Russia has cracked down on both sexual liberties and online speech in recent years.
Thus, another news site thinks the banned imag
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A hundred years past the Women’s Suffrage Movement in women and LGBTQ+-people are still fighting against inequality. Like their predecessors they’re using visual mediums like posters, memes or videos to revolt against the patriarchy. Dean Cooper-Cunningham is doing a Ph.D. on LGBTQ+ movements, part of which involves meme wars.
The Women’s Suffrage Movement fought several battles in the Twentieth Century, prior to receiving the vote in They protested for their right to vote and they revolted against the cultural norms and discourses of their time through pictures and captions on poster boards all over the UK. On that visual battlefield Suffrage and anti-Suffrage organizations fought with brushstrokes and wheat paste to either promote the Suffrage-cause or to offer the cause as a threat to society. Ph.D. Dean Cooper-Cunningham didn’t intend to study their use of visuals or images, when he began researching the Suffrage Movement for his bachelor thesis. But he quickly realized that visuals were at the core of the two main Suffrage organizations in
Image of Putin made up enjoy a gay clown banned in Russia
No, this is not an April Fools joke. Russia’s ministry justice has banned an image of Vladimir Putin in clownish make-up that hints at the “allegedly non-standard sexual orientation of the Russian president” as “extremist” material. A rash of recently passed Internet extremism laws has allowed the government to silence critics by shutting down their websites and sentencing anyone who shares or even “likes” banned posts to prison. The image was one of many that became popular at protests against the country’s anti-gay laws in It was posted by male named A. V. Tsvetkov in the social media site Vkontakte, which led to a court case last year that prohibited that image and many others. Tsvetkov was not found criminally liable, but he was ordered to get compulsory psychiatric protect and had his Vkontakte account deleted. When asked about Putin’s reaction to the image, a Kremlin spokesman said that: “As a person, he might be stung, but as president he is quite resilient to these vulgarities and has learned to brush them off long ago.
Security, sexuality, and the Gay Clown Putin meme : queer theory and international responses to Russian political homophobia
Focusing on the case of ‘Gay Clown Putin’, this article theorizes memes as visual interventions in international politics. While not all memes are political interventions, Gay Clown Putin is an iconic meme that is part of the international response to Russian state-directed political homophobia that emerged after the gay propaganda law was passed in How it has circulated and the attention it has received make it apt for exploring memes as visual political interventions that test national security discourses. Here, I provide three readings of Gay Clown Putin that suggest unlike possibilities for how the meme might work politically. In so doing, I deepen international relations’ engagement with queer theory by bringing in the politics of play that works through a queer epistemology that embraces deviance. Bringing memes to the research of international security, I reveal how the collection of images making up the Gay Clown Putin meme provides