This case at the Vienna Airport turned many of my ideas and forced to look at many familiar things in a new way. A transplant from the London aircraft forced me to spend more than three hours in the airport building in anticipation of a flight, which was supposed to interrupt my three -week parting with my homeland.
It was then that I drew attention to a group of young guys of a very specific species, who frankly spoke (no, screaming!) about their orientation. However, they not only did not hide her, but also frankly demonstrated. Judging by the symbolism on clothes and bags, these were participants of the international festival of sexual minorities recently held in Sweden. Arriving at the flight from Stockholm, in Vienna gays they were transplanted to different planes, and scattered into various ends of the world. Gradually, the group was melting, and soon only two unshaven guys remained from it, who, it would seem, did not notice anyone around. Stroking hands, some mannerism and constant hugs were supplemented by kisses when the couple sat down at the far end of the waiting room.
When my flight was announced and I went on landing, then, passing by the bench on which gays recently sat, I accidentally glanced at the newspaper’s crushed special issue of the sex-minute festival left by the couple, and was taken aback. From color photography, well acquainted not only to me, but also to thousands of my fellow countrymen on election posters, he looked at me – our choice, young and promising, promising expressor of our interests. I remember how hundreds of young people went around our district daily, knocking on apartments, distributed leaflets made in the form of banknotes, agits with a portrait of their candidate. At the same time, they said that the young candidate is able to solve our problems that it is time to drive from the parliamentary seats of the blocked and corrupt deputies, that only young and active will cleanse the swamp in which we are suffocating for a year. But there was no question of sexual orientations then:
I carefully, beyond the edges, took the newspaper, not without some disgust, turned it and hid it in the side pocket of the bag. At home, I gave the franco -speaking interview « our choice »In the translation, and when he got acquainted with him, he involuntarily exclaimed: your paths are unused, Lord! Who knew?!
The following is the interview with the parliamentarian of Vladimir Goshovsky in translation from French from the special issue of the newspaper « Gay Revue », placed in it under the rubric « Eastern Europe is attached to civilization ».
« Goat is much nicer than women. But real pleasure can only be obtained with a man »
-Vladimir, you are the first parliamentarian from your country to arrive at our annual gay festival and was not afraid to officially declare his orientation. We appreciate your courage-it is no secret that in the countries of the post-Soviet bloc, gay moves are faced with many problems, misunderstanding and even hostility of society. How you have gained your orientation?
– My belonging to the most progressive part of the human race – gays – a thing of its own. After all, I was born and lived in the most freedom -loving part of our country until 13 years old – in Western Ukraine, which was part of Europe up to the Stalinist occupation of 1939. And although I was born in the city of Stry, I always considered Lviv-the homeland of Zaher-Mazokha and the stronghold of free thought. The communist skating rink ruthlessly walked about this Piedmont of Ukraine, crippling the fate of people who wanted to see European values around them and rejected the half -wild Asian. Our family is directly related to the liberation struggle of our people-my cousin (my grandfather’s brother) Julian Goschovsky in 1940-41 was an assistant to Hauptmann Roman Shukhevich, who forever entered our history under the name of the UPA Taras Chuprinka. But then I had to be silent about this:
The real legend for us, boys, was our neighbor Santa Zinovy, a fighter for freedom and a victim of repression. Back in 1943, he entered the Ukrainian division « Galica », mercilessly fought with Soviet and Polish elements that mutated water in our quiet land, and when the Stalin’s occupiers defeated this division under the fords, he went into the forest and entered the forest and entered the forest and entered the forestThe rebel army. Long for six years, Zinovy Vladimirovich hid in the forest with his comrades, took revenge on the occupiers, but the forces were not equal. By denunciation of the traitor, he was captured, convicted and sent for long twenty -five years to the Stalinist camps. With what interest we, the boys, listened to the memoirs of Grandfather Zinovy about the battles with enemies, about the victories of the rebels, about the meanness of the Muscovites. I admit, trembling covered me when I listened about the torment of Grandfather Zinovy in prison – a distant polar camp, security, excessive work and not a single woman in the district for 300 kilometers. In this situation, Santa Zinovy, then a young man, found a way out. Having attached workers to the camp cuisine, he drew attention to the goat of the head of the camp, who loved goat milk. And this goat for many years became Zinovy’s wife.
– Vladimir, Santa Zinovy instilled in you love for animals?
– Rather, I discovered this magical world. It so happened that thanks to his example, I had the first sexual experience at the age of 12 with the neighboring goat, and then all the neighboring goats, sheep, cows, dogs and even pigs became the object of my attention. Unfortunately, this did not last long. The uncultural peasant scandalized to parents, intervened the district committee of the Communist Party, where the mother worked as a lecturer, and my family had to leave her homeland.
We moved to the east, and there is no thin one without good – my mother began to quickly make a party career, and I was set to work in a local collective farm. Shepherd! It was the best time of my life – the animals of all the surrounding villagers were at my disposal. And my sexual experience grew up by day, but by the hour. Unfortunately, my parents turned out to be conservative people – as soon as rumors about my hobby crawled around the village, they immediately forced me to leave shepherds. And then they generally decided to knock out a wedge with a wedge – they arranged me at a medical institute and forced me to study: imagine someone? Gynecologist!
– Before that you did not have sexual experience with women?
– Women with their physical and moral imperfection cannot at all be full -fledged sexual partners. Several attempts made by me with women, except for a sense of disgust, left nothing. I can proudly say that in terms of women I am a virgin.
– Your sexual preferences did not interfere with study?
– did not interfere, but created a number of problems. For example, when for the first time in practical classes in the institute clinic I saw a woman alive, revealed with all the details and in all of her frank unsightness, the vomiting of me rushed up the esophagus, and I could hardly keep them in my mouth and swallowed back. And this instinct remained with me forever. But even more I was oppressed by a feeling of loneliness. Sex with animals had bored by that time – although it was very pleasant, but the lack of mental contact was oppressed. Sex with women – vile. And suddenly the enchanting world of same -sex love opened before me!
– We go to the story of how you became gay?
– Yes. My spiritual torment was noticed by one of my senior comrades, who became my mentor. For a long time, he taught at our university Marxist-Leninist philosophy, and with the wind he realized his delusions, repented and became one of the guides of the ideas of integral nationalism. This is close to me, given the place where I was born, who is my relative and how my personality was formed. So, this comrade once invited me, then a young student, to a closed party-as he said playfully, to the boyfriend. Light wine, sauna, relaxing conversation:
I did not even notice how I ended up in the rest room with one of the guests, and when he began to caress me, I experienced unearthly bliss. Where is the goat! Gently massaging my sphincter, he completely organically entered me, and with each of his frictions I experienced what the angel probably experiences, rising to heaven. Our meetings became regular, I met closer to other members of the club, and I really liked them. I experienced shock only once – when AIDS was detected from one of the club members. Fortunately, it cost for me – I still had no manifestations.
– You checked the doctor?
– For what? If I got sick, I wouldn’t have been alive. This is the price that gays pay for belonging to the highest caste. Another thing is worse – intensive communication with friends led to the formation of my anal crack, why have sex with them has become painful and bad for linen – its blood was dirty all the time, and often had to buy new underpants. Yes, and the incontinence of the feces also began to occur, so even now I have to use diapers from time to time.
– And you have moved to an active form of communication?
– By that time I had already graduated from the institute, received a diploma of not only a gynecologist, but also a lawyer, and thanks to his parents began to work in the field of distribution of licenses for mining. Therefore, I did not need money. I invested them wisely – I invested in a democratic association of youth (house).
-Gay club?
– In no case! This is really the unification of youth, where low -income students can find a business to their liking, get support and earn a little part. Of course, among members of the association, there are not only spiritual contacts, but also bodily, but this is not at all mandatory. Many young people come to a democratic association of youth with their friends, and if someone is not to the liking of the same-sex love, they can leave. But the majority remains.
– Those who remain – your friends?
– Majority. I repeat – for a real friendship between men there should be not only spiritual intimacy, but also bodily. Yes, a goat is much more pleasant than a woman, but real pleasure can only be obtained with a man. And when I penetrate inside the young man, I hold his body in my hands and feel how he shudders, obeying every movement of my nature inside him, I feel unity with him. So bodily intimacy goes into spiritual. After all, you always trust a person who is ready to substitute you not only a shoulder, but also.Such cohesion had its fruit – thanks to her I became a deputy. During the elections, several hundred members of the Democratic Association of Youth bypassed houses, told voters about my virtues and campaigned to vote for me. And they did it exclusively due to their beliefs and relations with me. Of course, taking into account the contingent of voters, I categorically forbade them to touch on the topic of unconventional sex, instructing them to focus on more familiar and already crowded topics – economics, morality, corruption, and everywhere – emphasizing my youth and prospects. It worked. You know: the main thing in the elections is to say and promise only what voters want to hear. And nothing else. The main thing here is the availability of money to hire good sociologists who will identify voters’ moods and make a good program under them. Then you should attract talented journalists who will sign your virtues, and then ensure the printing of campaigning and their delivery to voters. Well, bypassing apartments and meeting in the yards is the holy. Here, too, I had to say what is expected from you. And not a word about homosexuality!
– Your voters are negatively related to gays and lesbians?
– Not that word! I got a constituency inhabited by a very specific contingent. Imagine the former Soviet monster plants and residential quarters standing back to each other, with a bit stuffed with oak proletarians. They are unable to understand new life realities, still mutter something about the restoration of production at these unnecessary factories, while in other places the advanced business executives have long converted the factory corps into storage facilities. And with considerable benefit they are handed over to their entrepreneurs-importers, helping to fill our market with high-quality Chinese and Turkish goods. And these are still talking about factories, about their workplaces: in the sexual plan, my voters are so dark that traditional inter -sex sex is all that they can afford. The peaks of homosexuality are not available to them. And the most unpleasant – it is useless to enlighten them. Several attempts made by me with voters ended with insults – I was called « Homik », « Pedic », and I had to spend a lot of money to convince the failed partners « forget »This attempt to bring closer. So the whole bet is for youth. Especially in my district.
-Young people are different about your initiatives?
– Certainly. Firstly, they are not poisoned by the poison of the past. Secondly, the democratic association of youth (house), which I created and headed, helps work with youth. You see, you just won’t come to a university or a disco and you won’t be inviting young people to a gay-wound-our society must still be grown before. Therefore, the house organizes charitable actions, sports competitions, launched a network of discussion clubs, where we invite young people to talk, argue about life, about prospects, discuss musical news. And if it is, as it were, by itself, it comes to non -traditional sexual relations, this no longer causes rejection. On the contrary, we try to cause interest in non -traditional sex, and our technique gives excellent fruits – over the past two years, the number of democratic association of youth has grown almost four times. The best psychologists, sociologists, lawyers developed this technique, and most importantly in it – the young man sincerely believes that we did not include him among supporters of non -traditional sexual relations, but this is his own conscious choice. And when a person is psychologically prepared, the first physiological contact passes without problems. By the way, my deputy status helps in this – young people from ordinary families see in me a representative of high society, and their first homosexual contact, which is happening to me, creates their sensations of entering this society. Although in fact I enter them. Without false modesty, I can say – it was I who gave a ticket to the world of same -sex love more than three hundred guys.
– Democratic association of youth (house) – purely male organization?
– Not at all. We have many girls, and not all of them are lesbians. Most of them joined the work of the house, coming here with their guys. And many guys, regularly in contact with me (and sometimes among themselves), at the same time do not break relations with their friends. We regularly hold meetings, and I try not to miss a single. Sometimes I come to a meeting with my beloved shepherd Ajax, a multiple champion of various competitions and exhibitions. The cohesion of our organization is especially facilitated by the fact that we constantly provide material assistance to our members, help pay for their studies and even contribute to career growth. We were able to hold several of our members to deputies of local councils, and arranged to the authorities. Yes, and I myself began my ascent with the local council – back in 1998, thanks to the house I got the mandate of the deputy of the city council. I am sure that in the next election I can not only maintain my deputy status, but also bring more than my friends to the parliament and local councils. Our plans are to create a political party on the basis of the House. And then my current initiatives for the development and promotion of homosexuality in our country will be more likely to success.
– Here’s about this in more detail. We know how hard it is to introduce people to same -sex love in the countries of the former Soviet bloc. Even at our World Gay Festival, which is traditionally taking place in Sweden every year, Eastern Europe is very weak-Romanians, Poles, Latvians and Estonians. This year you appeared. Moreover, you are the only one of the « East », possessing such powerful powers. And I think, thanks to you, gays in your country will receive new opportunities.
– I will try to do everything in my power to do this. Firstly, you will have to change the ossified legislative framework. Imagine, we are still not allowed to adopt children! While in advanced countries – for example, Sweden, Holland – this issue has long been resolved. I have a child’s house in the district, and sometimes I help him, collecting children’s toys. And looking at these kids, I feel suffering from the idea that absolutely all of them will be adopted by ordinary families who will prevent their introduction to same -sex love. Another problem is to overcome the totalitarian past. Now it sounds wild, but in the Soviet empire of gays and animal lovers pursued in criminal order, there were even special articles of the Criminal Code. Many have been repressed. Restoring justice is one of the main tasks. We must help gays and zoophiles – former prisoners – receive compensation from the state, take a decent and respected place in society. I believe that organizations of gays and lesbians should be equalized in rights with organizations of war veterans, use the same benefits and privileges. The Criminal Code must be included articles providing for the punishment for counteraction to gays and lesbians. And the first step has already been taken by us – we have achieved the seizure from our Criminal Code of Articles on responsibility for sodistry and cattlefit. One of the most important tasks is the preparation of changes to the Constitution, thanks to which obstacles to the official registration of marriages between gays will be eliminated. I am already working on this – I have prepared appropriate amendments. It’s a small thing – they must be accepted. But this will become possible only in the next convocation of the parliament. There should be more TV shows, films, shows that will positively depict gays, accustom society to the idea of the beneficiality of homosexual relations and promote them. At the same time, in public opinion it is necessary to form a negative and even disgusting attitude to those who are amazed to intolerance to gays. I am sure that my deputy activity, work with the Council of Europe, communication with European GENI deputies, which are a lot in the advanced countries of Europe, will help me to bring me to our realities.
– You are not afraid that unprepared public opinion in your country, having prematurely learning about your position and plans, will prevent you?
– This is impossible in principle. Members of the house are interested in the existence of the organization, and they will not speak too much yet, a few talkers can always be closed with shots – by courts or « cash gag ». I am not sitting on this festival in the presidium, I don’t climb under the television cameras. I know that the special issue of your newspaper is intended for distribution only at the festival and, unlike the main numbers, is not posted on the Internet. I will give consent to print this interview in the special issue of the newspaper if the editors oblige to prohibit its translation from English and reprinting other editions. Someone will try to translate and reprint without permission-my lawyers drag him to the courts (so in the original-per.). And the time will come, and I think that pretty soon, so I myself will print this interview in my homeland. And I will be proud of him – as one of the pioneers of the movement of gays and lesbians in my country.
– It remains to wish you success. We are waiting for you at the next gay festivals no longer, but at the head of the delegation of gays and lesbians.
– Thank you. This is quite real – the problem has moved. Society gradually overcomes inertness, becomes more tolerant of gays and lesbians, and this pleases. Unfortunately, the older generation has already been lost. Even my parents who love me very much, think about how to marry me and get the heir. But at the thought that a different sex will appear in my house, which will interfere with my communication with friends and will insist on constant attention, and then – God forbid – it will make a screaming piece of meat, I am made uncomfortable. And I will do everything in my power so that this never happens.
Interview with deputy Vladimir Goshovsky was prepared by Basil Balkmostash Gotyrog, August 2004. Translated from French Philip Boyko.P. WITH. As it was possible to find out, at this festival, the special issue of the newspaper « gay-Reyu »produced in two versions – in English and in French. This, obviously, did not know in. Goshovsky. And if the ban on an unauthorized translation of his interview from English is really available, then no restrictions are provided for the franco -speaking version. Therefore, there are no obstacles of a legal nature for translating interviews from French, its publication and acquaintance with it a wide range of readers.
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