Honcho (July 1990), Part Three

By the 1990s, the Russian government stopped sending homosexuals to sanitariums and Siberian labor camps; however, public disdain toward the minority group persisted and made for a volatile environment, with attacks outside gay bars a common occurrence, numerous men being gang raped by vigilante crowds, and, in a 1993 survey, thirty-one percent of Moscow residents advocating for mass genocide of the nation’s homosexual population. Bill Strubbe’s short story “Comrades in Arms,” contained in the July 1990 issue of Honcho (which has been broken into three parts), lightly touches on this factor as its main character, an American tourist, encounters Dmitri on a train. Included in the final third (see the second third here) is an article on the purported affair between J. Edgar Hoover and FBI agent Clyde Tolson and photo spreads titled “Bigger Than Life,” “Rodeo Stud,” and “To Sir, With Love.”

Honcho (July 1990), Part Two

By the 1990s, the Russian government stopped sending homosexuals to sanitariums and Siberian labor camps; however, public disdain toward the minority group persisted and made for a volatile environment, with attacks outside gay bars a common occurrence, numerous men being gang raped by vigilante crowds, and, in a 1993 survey, thirty-one percent of Moscow residents advocating for mass genocide of the nation’s homosexual population. Bill Strubbe’s short story “Comrades in Arms,” contained in the July 1990 issue of Honcho (which has been broken into three parts), lightly touches on this factor as its main character, an American tourist, encounters Dmitri on a train. Included in this second third (see the first third here) are the short stories “Highways of Desire” (about a run-away farm boy’s search for adventure) and “Photo-Fuck” (where a photographer finds his ideal subject at a construction site), an advertisement for books from Amethyst Press, and photo spreads titled “No. 1 Contender” and “Shipshape.”

Honcho (July 1990), Part One

By the 1990s, the Russian government stopped sending homosexuals to sanitariums and Siberian labor camps; however, public disdain toward the minority group persisted and made for a volatile environment, with attacks outside gay bars a common occurrence, numerous men being gang raped by vigilante crowds, and, in a 1993 survey, thirty-one percent of Moscow residents advocating for mass genocide of the nation’s homosexual population. Bill Strubbe’s short story “Comrades in Arms,” contained in the July 1990 issue of Honcho (which has been broken into three parts), lightly touches on this factor as its main character, an American tourist, encounters Dmitri on a train. Also included in this first third is the short story “The Student Cowboy” (where a banker learns to ride more than a horse on a local farm), an advertisement for Falcon’s film Revenge, and a photo spread titled “In Control.”