Based on interviews with twenty-one women and fifteen men who expressed homosexual desires during the late Soviet period, this article seeks to shed light upon Soviet homosexual subjectivities in the Russian SFSR. As a result of the drive to “close off the entire topic of gay subjectivity to respectable inquiry, so as to prevent gayness from ever again being understood as a sickness,” queer studies has for a long time been “silent” on this topic (David Halperin). My objective here is to take into account both the effects produced by Soviet medical and penal discourse on the subjectification of individuals who experience homosexual desire and the room to maneuver open to individuals for constructing the subject of their sexuality from their experience. I suggest that men and women were able to construct homosexual subjectivities that cannot be reduced to binary stigmatization as either sickness or criminality. In reality, men and women rendered themselves the subjects of their homosexuality in confrontation simultaneously and non-exclusively with both the pathologizing and criminalizing definitions of homosexuality.

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劳教所与诊所之间:晚期苏联同性恋主体的共享形式

本文基于对苏联晚期表达同性恋欲望的 21 名女性和 15 名男性的采访，旨在阐明俄罗斯 SFSR 中的苏联同性恋主体性。由于推动“将同性恋主体性的整个话题封闭在可敬的调查范围内，以防止同性恋再次被理解为一种疾病”，酷儿研究长期以来一直对这个话题保持“沉默”。大卫·哈珀林）。我在这里的目的是考虑苏联医学和刑罚话语对体验同性恋欲望的个人主体化产生的影响，以及为个人从他们的经验中构建他们的性主题的机动空间。我认为男人和女人能够构建同性恋主体性，这些主体性不能被简化为疾病或犯罪的二元污名。在现实中，男人和女人把自己变成了同性恋的主体，同时且非排他性地与同性恋的病态化和犯罪化定义相抗衡。