Boy Love Meets Girl Power in Putin’s Russia

• In Event: Teen Romance versus "Gay" Propaganda: "Summer in a Pioneer Tie"

Abstract

This paper investigates the extent to which Sil’vanova and Malisova’s "Summer in a Pioneer Tie" conforms to the constraints of the transnational genre of yaoi or boy love. The author argues that the book only partially complies to these generic conventions, creating a nostalgic depiction of the late Soviet era as a bastion of male intimacy.

Author

• Julie A. Cassiday, Williams College