Having created his own ballet troupe, Diaghilev received new opportunities to choose beautiful and talented lovers, whom he not only helped to make a career, but literally shaped them personalities 47 . Diaghilev's erotic preferences were strictly programmed; he was only attracted to very young people. His famous dancer lovers - Vaslav Nijinsky, Leonide Massine, Anton Dolin, Sergei Lifar - came to him at 18 years old, and his latest passion - composer and conductor Igor Markevich - at 16 years old. Powerful, intolerant and at the same time shy (he was embarrassed about his body and never undressed on the beach), Diaghilev did not waste time on courtship. Having invited the promising young man to his hotel, he immediately charmed him with his imperious manners, the richness of his furnishings and the prospect of a brilliant career. His charm and pressure were so strong that young people simply could not resist. Massine, who did not want to leave Moscow, came to Diaghilev a second time with a firm decision to reject the offer to join Diaghilev’s troupe, but, to his own surprise, instead of “no” he answered “yes”. None of these young men experienced erotic attraction to Diaghilev. Massine and Markevich, apparently, were heterosexuals, Nijinsky, before meeting Diaghilev, was the lover of Prince Lvov, and was more afraid of Diaghilev than loved. It was incredibly difficult to work and live with Diaghilev. He could be rude in public, was distinguished by pathological jealousy (Lifar called him “Otellushka”), jealous of his favorites both women and men, including his own friends, and demanded unconditional submission in everything. This concerned not only creative problems. As soon as Lifar did not put on the hat Diaghilev gave him, he publicly shouted at him: “What? Doesn't she suit you? Are you saying that I have no taste, that I don’t know my craft? Get out of my sight, you worthless puppy!” However, he gave his lovers not only position and roles, which they certainly deserved, but for which there is fierce competition in any troupe. Having brought the young man closer, Diaghilev took him with him to Italy, took him to concerts and museums, shaped his artistic taste and revealed his hidden talents, unknown to himself. Since Diaghilev himself was neither a dancer nor a choreographer, there could be no professional rivalry between him and his students, and they received a lot from him, and for the rest of their lives. And although after several years life together and work, their relationship usually cooled or ended in a break (as was the case with Nijinsky and Massine), young people remembered Diaghilev reverently (the exception was Nijinsky, who suffered from a serious mental illness from his youth; leaving Diaghilev, which seemed to him a liberation, in fact exacerbated his mental difficulties).
(under the stars - texts sections).Part 1
IN THE LABYRINTHS OF COGNITION
1-1. From answers to questions
Words, words, words
From theology to sexology
1-2. Drives and complexes
Freud's theory
Evolution of psychoanalysis
1-3. From anamnesis to questionnaire
Alfred Kinsey
Modern mass polls
Issues of theory and methodology. The problem of bisexuality
1-4. Genes, hormones and the brain
Homosexual behavior in animals
Homosexuality in the light of evolutionary biology
Endocrinology and neurophysiology
In search of the homosexual gene
Sex, gender and sexuality
1-5. Diagnosis of fate and fate of diagnosis
To treat or not to treat?
Cancellation of diagnosis
Homosexuality and mental health
Special opinion of Russian psychiatry
From text to context.
From biology to human sciences
Social constructivism
Queer theory
Part 2
THROUGH SPACE AND TIME
2.1. Same-sex love as a cultural phenomenon
Ethnography of same-sex relationships
Homosociality and homoeroticism
Homosexuality in male initiations
People of the "third gender"
2-2. By country and continent
Forward East
India
Ancient Israel
Islamic world
China
Japan
American civilizations
2-3. "Greek love"
Gods and heroes
Origin of ancient Greek pederasty
Male love in classical Greece
Homoeroticism in the visual arts
Pedagogical eros or sexual exploitation?
Lesbian love
Same-sex love in ancient Rome
Homoeroticism in Roman Literature
2-4. Christian Europe
Sin of Sodom
Same-sex love among knights
MonasteriesPersecution of sodomites"Beautiful Vice"Kings and minions
Homoeroticism in English Literature. Shakespeare.
Molly and the Libertines
2-5. " Love that dare not name itself"
Secularization of sodomy
Same-sex love and Enlightenment philosophyFrom feudal law to bourgeois law Byron Equality of rights and homophobia
Love or friendship?Hellenization of same-sex lovePrivileged schoolsJohn Addington Symonds
Aestheticism and prose of life
Medicalization of same-sex loveFrom Emerson to WhitmanWilde's process
Homosexual scandals in Germany
Bloomsbury CircleSame-sex love in French literature Marcel Proust Andre Gide
Jean Cocteau Homosexual culture in Germany Thomas Mann Fascist genocide
2-6. Doubly invisible
2-7. All the colors of the rainbow
Termination of criminal prosecution
Homophobia and heterosexism
From underground to culture
Homosexual theme in cinema
Homophile movement in the USA
Stonewall and the radicalization of the homophile movement
Sexual revolution and counterculture
AIDS and its social consequences
The fight for civil equality
Separation or integration?
2-8. In native land
Church law and folk culture
High life and school adventures
Homoeroticism in Russian literature
Criminalization and medicalization
P. I. Tchaikovsky
Mikhail Kuzmin and friends of Gafiz
Sergei Diaghilev
Zinaida Gippius
Lesbian love
Tsvetaeva and Parnok
Under the shadow of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR
Repeal of Article 121 State of public consciousness
Socio-political activity of gays and lesbians Yankee
Part 3
ME AND OTHERS
3-1. Finding myself
How did I become like this?
Feeling different
Parents and peers
"The exotic becomes erotic"
Puberty and imagery
Sex games
Homoerotic friendships and loves
First sexual experience - seduction or fulfillment what's your dream?
Become yourself
Male and female development trajectories
Who should I open up to today?
Teen suicide
3-2. Group portrait without interior
Socio-demographic profile
Psychological profile
Gay Sensitivity
Sexy profile
Same-sex couples
Couples of different ages
"Blue" parents
Aging
Gays and women
3-3. "Blue" erotica
Homoerotic imagination
Psychological characteristics of male same-sex love
Homosexual sight and the poetics of the male body
The artist and his work
Sexual criteria attractiveness
Penis cult
"Icons" of homosexual imagination
Androgynes and impersonators
Androphiles and boylovers
Homosexual practices
Masturbation and partner sex
Oral sex - fellatio
Anal sex
Bondage and discipline
Virtual sex
3-4. Heirs of Sappho
The future of same-sex love