The main Russian gay clips of the 90s
A wave of sentimental memories of the 90s rolled not yesterday or even the day before yesterday, but is not going to decline yet: the pop culture of that time serves as a universal code uniting the generation of the current thirty-year-olds (plus or minus). The No Doubt video posted on Facebook will say better than a thousand words, and the "Clouds" Ivanushki included in the morning at a home party will merge people who love Mahler, Oneohtrix Point Never and Taylor Swift.
The Russian nineties were even more wild, scary and delightful than the Western. Everything flowed on us: Versace and grunge, hip-hop and Britpop, and on the 2x2 TV channel, the piercing rollers of Pet Shop Boys, Elton John and Erasure played. It is difficult to refrain from pathos and not to say that in all this there was an incredible spirit of freedom, multiplied by promiscuity. Russian pop music picked up and ground all the trends with its desperate categorical characteristic - nothing like this has appeared here before, nor, alas, after.
It was as if everyone had broken through: the British online edition of The Calvert Journal compiled a selection of the most enchanting Russian clips of that time, from “Guests from the Future” to “Vice Squad,” calling it the era of coming out. In a sense, this is true: when it was still possible to watch the video of the duet "Hands up!" On the central TV channel. about transgender. On the other hand, the country, it seems, did not fully understand what it was dealing with, but when she understood, she immediately tried to hide it all back in the closet. It remains for us to look and remember, not without a thought that everything could turn out differently.
A full selection of the top 10 Russian gay clips of the 90s can be viewed on The Calvert Journal website, but our personal top 3 of them: