A Lesbian Love Story From Russia

[Larry1]

I don't want to weigh in on the debate about same-sex questions in Russia, but this interview has some things that might interest some of you.

Let me set the stage.  In pre-school Marina liked Kolya. Their parents stayed friends even after the pair drifted apart.  Fast forward 15 years.  Marina gets married and has a child.  Kolya marries Elena and they have a child. Kolya introduces his wife Elena to his childhood sweetheart Marina.  Marina is unhappy in her marriage and seeks consolation from her new friend Elena, and one thing leads to another until... well, you can read what happened:

Marina and Elena: A Lesbian Love Story From Russia

ELENA
We were chatting on Skype, and just talking a lot. Marina has a complicated relationship with her parents and she was having a hard time with it. And things with Vitya weren’t so good. So often she’d come over and cry and just need to talk about it. Do you remember why we started kissing?

MARINA
I think I was hysterical.

ELENA
That’s right, she was hysterical. She’d had a fight with her mother and her mother had said a bunch of mean things to her, so Marina was saying, “I’m worthless, no one wants me.” And I was like, “Don’t worry, you are not worthless, somebody wants you.” And I was also like, “Why don’t you have an affair with some other guy?” And then we just started kissing.

I’d had relationships with girls before. It was never an issue for me. But I was Marina’s first woman. So the next day I decided we should have a talk. You know, because she had kissed a girl for the first time and it must be traumatic for her.

MARINA
So she came over all serious, to have this talk.

ELENA
And we talked, and Marina was like, “Let’s give it a shot.” And I was like, “Alright, but we are not going to sleep together right away. We’ll take it slow.” Marina had only ever been with Vitya before me. We slept together half an hour later.

MARINA
I had no issue with the fact that she was a woman. I’d been thinking of having an affair. And I was actually thinking it should be with a woman. Because … I don’t know.

And where do lesbians go to meet each other in Russia?  Lesbian bars?  Guess again:

MARINA
... I have a lot of friends who are lesbians—I met most of them through an online Anne Rice community, so it’s never seemed like a big deal to me.

I've never read an Anne Rice book. Do they feature lesbians?

And all this time Kolya has not been idle. He found a girlfriend named Olya:

ELENA
By that time, Kolya already had Olya. Even before anything had happened with Marina, he had come to me and said, “Elena, I have fallen in love with a girl on Twitter.” And I was like, “On Twitter?” And he said, “We started corresponding on Twitter and I fell in love.”

When Kolya goes to meet his new girlfriend for the first time Elena's girlfriend Marina gives him invaluable assistance:

(Elena):
For the May Day holidays, he finally went to meet her, and it was hilarious: Marina was ironing his shirts and we were sending him off to see his girlfriend.

MARINA
I took half the clothes out of his suitcase and had to explain to him that these were not the sorts of things he should wear on a date.

ELENA
Yes, she tells him, “This underwear is faded. You don’t want to be wearing this when she undresses you.” And Kolya was like, “Do you think we’ll be taking our clothes off?” And I was like, “I’m sure of it.”

That was my favorite part.

Here's another funny tidbit from the interview:

ELENA
Both our husbands had the same reaction: they suggested giving us sex toys as gifts. And I was like, “What do we need those for?” And they were like, “But how do you do it?” Kolya was always nagging me to tell him the details, because he thought it was very exciting that his wife had a girlfriend. But I told him we hadn’t had sex yet and were still in the hand-holding stage.

There is lots more at the link:

http://www.slate.com/blogs/outward/2014/03/20/gay_propaganda_a_lesbian_love_story_from_russia.html

[CanadaMan]

I wonder if Marina and Elena get all warm and mushy
while listening to this romantic song?

[Larry1]

I wonder if Marina and Elena get all warm and mushy
while listening to this romantic song?

Nice song.

According to Elena the couple isn't at all romantic:

I’m really difficult to get along with, and Marina is no angel either.

... we’re not romantic. Not at all.

[jone]

Anne Rice writes Vampire novels.  My favorite was Vittorio, the Vampire.  Based in Florence around 1500.  She writes beautifully about the tapestry of the Renaissance, including Demons (vampires) and Angels.  Those who follow her have created their own world of fantasy.

Personally, if I wanted to find a lesbian, I'd simply go to Lesbia.

[Slumba]

It is not really surprising, considering that Anne Rice has written plenty of BDSM and other erotica (some written under a pseudonym / nom de plume). 

Her Vampire series of novels have homosexuality in them as well - here is a short interview that might give you some insight if you haven't read the books (I have not). http://www.examiner.com/article/sexuality-and-anne-rice-s-vampires-what-you-think-you-know

It is actually a great test - if an FSUW "loves" Twilight without seeing the vacuous character and non-existent personality of "Bella" - she probably won't end up any different than the vast majority of zombified Western women who don't see it either.

[Faux Pas]

More proof that joining an Anne Rice forum, lighting some candles and playing some Al Green on the stereo, anything can happen