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.

[–] Omniraptor@hexbear.net 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah sorry for not being specific it was specifically the phrase "Alexander.. implemented orthodox Christianity" that had me rolling. It happened a bit earlier than that is all.

And the actual crackdowns happened under Nicholas I, specifically as a reaction to secular revolutionary movements in France Germany and Russia at the time. I don't think he cared much about gay people per se but he wanted to strengthen the church as a bulwark against uprisings, and that meant implementing some religious laws into civil ones.

[–] ghost_of_faso2@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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?

[–] Omniraptor@hexbear.net 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

sources on what specifically?