Edward Tarletski Explained

Native Name:Эдвард Тарлецкі
Native Name Lang:be
Other Names:Norma Pospolita
Madame Zhu-Zhu (Мадам Жу Жу)
Birth Name:Edward Zinowevich Tarletski
Эдвард Зіноўевіч Тарлецкі
Birth Date:1969 2, df=yes
Birth Place:Minsk, Byelorussian SSR, Soviet Union
Occupation:Drag performer, musician, journalist
Years Active:1990 – present

Edward Zinowevich Tarletski (; born 5 February 1969),[1] [2] [3] also known by the stage names Norma Pospolita[4] and Madame Zhu-Zhu is a Belarusian drag performer, recording artist, entertainer, journalist, gay activist,[5] and costume designer, living in Stockholm, Sweden. He was born in Minsk, Belarus on 5 February 1969. Edward Tarletski graduated as a photographer and a journalist in European Humanities University (Minsk) in 1996. Since 2000, he has been a member of the Belarusian Association of Journalists.

Life in Belarus

In 1990, Tarletski was one of two people who hunger striked for returning the Church of Saints Simon and Helena building to the Catholic community in Minsk.[6] [7] [8]

Between 1993 and 1998, Tarletski worked as a journalist for the Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and as an editor of youth programming at the Belarusian state television station; at the same time he published articles in the Belarusian Catholic magazine "Nasha vera" (Our faith).[9]

Edward Tarletski was the first Belarusian person to publicly come out in 1998. In the same year, he founded BELARUS LAMBDA LEAGUE,[10] [11] the first LGBT organization in Belarus.[12] [13]

On 19 April 1999, Tarletski organized the first ever gay public action in Belarus, when LGBT rights activists demonstrated to protest the authorities' refusal to register their organization.[14] Edward Tarletski told RFE/RL that the Belarusian authorities are guided by Soviet stereotypes in their unwillingness to recognize the existence of a "non-traditional sexual orientation" in Belarus. Tarletski added that the demonstrators also wanted to protest a recent seminar organized by the Belarusian Exarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church at which some participants called homosexuals "servants of the devil" and proposed punishing them by electrocution.[15]

Two years later, during the action "Gays against Fascism", which took place on 3 July 2001 in the memorial complex to victims of Holocaust "Yama" in Minsk, Traletski stated:At the public action "Gays against fascism" which was held at memorial "Maly Trostenets extermination camp" during the Belarus Gay Pride in Minsk on 5 September 5, 2001, Edward Tarletski said:

In 1998–2005, Tarletski published and edited Belarusian LGBT magazines FORUM LAMBDA and TABOO.[16]

Between 1999 and 2002, Edward Tarletski held the position of Chairman of the Organizing Committee of Belarus Gay Pride (Minsk Pride) festivals.[17] [18] [19]

In 2005, Edward Tarletski started his career as a drag entertainer in the LGBT club named Babylon in Minsk, Belarus.[20]

Life in Ukraine

Being politically persecuted in Belarus,[21] Tarletski moved to Ukraine in 2008, when he played the role of DIVA[22] in the cult Russian movie Chapiteau-Show[23] which won the prize of the XXXIII Moscow Film Festival. After that, Edward Tarletski focused on a career as a drag entertainer and later, he founded the famous Ukrainian drag queen contest ″MISS DIVA″ in 2013.[24] [25] In February 2014, Edward Tarletski as Madame Zhu-Zhu took part in TV show "Zvana Vecherya" (Ukrainian version of the My Kitchen Rules), episodes 46–50 Being a popular artist in night clubs of Ukraine, in 2015, Tarletski has participated as a drag performer in the music video ″WINGS″ Surrender album of the British duo Hurts.[26] 2015 he applied for political asylum in Ukraine, but his demand was refused. In 2018 he moved to Sweden.[27]

Life in Sweden

Since 2018 Tarletski has lived in Stockholm, Sweden, where he participates in the protest movement against the government of Alexander Lukashenko.[28] [29] [30]

Filmography

Television credits

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 14 June 2012 . MediaImpact INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF ACTIVIST ART .
  2. Web site: The Fourth Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160215192423/http://4th.moscowbiennale.ru/en/program/special_projects.html . 15 February 2016 . 9 February 2016 . 4th.moscowbiennale.ru.
  3. Web site: 3 February 2016 . Мадам Жу-Жу без макияжа – Жизнь звезд, звезды без макияжа . 1 March 2016 . bez-makiyazha.ru.
  4. Web site: Norma Pospolita Drag Queen 2012 Polska Poland Warszawa Warsaw Травести Дива Украина Киев Шоу Пародия . 17 February 2016 . www.normapospolita.io.ua.
  5. Web site: Биран . Вика . 2014-01-06 . Любое гей-движение будет отражать общую картину происходящего в обществе . Any gay movement reflects the whole picture of what is happening in the society . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20140114195259/http://makeout.by:80/2014/01/06/lyuboe-gey-dvizhenie-budet-otrazhat-obschuyu-kartinu-proishodyaschego-v-obschestve.html . 14 January 2014 . 2022-01-24 . MAKEOUT — Журнал про гендер и сексуальность . ru.
  6. GAWIN . TADEUSZ . 2013 . Początek odrodzenia . Magazyn Polski.
  7. Book: Gawin, Tadeusz . POLSKIE ODRODZENIE NA BIAŁORUSI 1988–2005 . Wyższa Szkoła Administracji Publicznej im. Stanisława Staszica,Białystok . 2010 . 978-83-60772-23-2 . 9 February 2016 . 4 February 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160204024156/http://pdf.kamunikat.org/15441-1.pdf . dead .
  8. Goliński . Cezary . 1991 . Batalia o kościół . Głos znad Niemna . 5 . 7.
  9. Web site: Catholic.by – Sanctuary of the Mother of God in Brest . 18 February 2016 . catholic.by.
  10. Web site: Fackförbunds och moderaters medverkan nytt inslag . 9 February 2016 . QX.se.
  11. Book: Stahnk, Tad . Violence Based on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Bias/ A Human Rights First Report . Human Rights First . 2008 . Washington, DC . 9/30 . 17 February 2016 . 23 September 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120923110803/http://www.humanrightsfirst.org/wp-content/uploads/pdf/fd-080924-lgbt-web2.pdf . dead .
  12. BORTNIK . V IACHASLAU . Hate Crimes against Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual People in Belarus . 9 February 2016 . 2 March 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160302145004/http://www.policy.hu/takacs/courses/matters/Pre-warAntisemitism327-344.pdf . dead .
  13. Book: Hate Crime Survey . Human Rights First . 2008 . 17 February 2016 . 3 January 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140103140246/http://www.humanrightsfirst.org/wp-content/uploads/pdf/FD-081103-hate-crime-survey-2008.pdf . dead .
  14. Web site: Canada . Immigration and Refugee Board of . 1 August 2000 . Update to BYS28904.E of 20 February 2000 regarding the treatment of homosexuals, particularly lesbians, in the city of Minsk, including societal attitudes, treatment by the state and state protection [BYS35140.E] ]. 17 February 2016 . www.ecoi.net.
  15. Web site: F&P RFE/RL Archive . 9 February 2016 . www.friends-partners.org . 16 February 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160216073953/http://www.friends-partners.org/friends/news/omri/1999/04/990420II.html(opt,mozilla,unix,english,,new) . dead .
  16. Web site: I CARE – News Archive January and February 2005 . 9 February 2016 . www.icare.to . 12 December 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20161212052104/http://www.icare.to/archive-maytojuly2005.html . dead .
  17. Web site: News Article: Gay Pride-2000 Organizers Encountered Difficulties Preparing the Festival . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20010224032205/http://www.belarus-misc.org/bel-gay.htm . 24 February 2001.
  18. "Are all equal before the law?" Viachaslau Bortnik & Svyatoslav Sementsov, 2008
  19. Web site: WWW.GAY.RU: Gay Community. Politics. Belarus: Pride 2001 Will Fail Again . 17 February 2016 . img.gay.ru . 1 March 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160301042535/http://img.gay.ru/english/communty/politics/2001c.htm . dead .
  20. Web site: "ВАВИЛОН" ДАРИЛ МИСКИ. Радости жизни. №5 (473) 07 февраля 2005 г.. БелГазета. Новости Беларуси. Белорусские новости . 15 February 2016 . www.belgazeta.by.
  21. Web site: Increase in Assaults on Gay Men in Belarus .
  22. Web site: Эдвард Тарлецкий – биография – российские актеры эпизода – Кино-Театр.РУ . 14 February 2016 . www.kino-teatr.ru.
  23. Web site: Ghostbusters: Russian cinema comes to terms with the Soviet Union . 14 February 2016 . The Calvert Journal.
  24. Web site: Конкурс травести Мiss Diva . 17 February 2016 . kiev.vgorode.ua.
  25. Web site: Красота неописуемая. В Киеве проходит конкурс травести-див (ФОТО) – ДУСЯ. . 17 February 2016 . ДУСЯ.
  26. Web site: 12 November 2015 . Hurts сняли клип с Мадам Жу Жу (Видео) . 9 February 2016 . www.intermedia.ru.
  27. https://www.svaboda.org/a/madam-zhu-zhu/29026908.html?fbclid=IwAR2tCaKotwbpGFYQ_BEvLktzETZ3sIzygaCxzg2P-H0D5oQcpRyp_7WE828 «Мадам Жужу едзе са мною». Эдвард Тарлецкі зьехаў у Швэцыю пасьля адмовы Ўкраіны даць яму статус уцекача
  28. https://naviny.online/article/20210318/1616083604-dreg-kvin-vs-lukashenko-kak-iz-sovetskogo-shampanskogo-sdelat-pulyu-dlya?fbclid=IwAR1wJabWbEZydkdoyeoXdiYQePX7Ci42i_U-828lxGPl5SInsuy17GKUV6w Дрэг-квин vs Лукашенко. Как из советского шампанского сделать пулю для диктатуры
  29. Aleksandra Pogorzelska. Jag hade ett hopp om att få komma hem.//Dagens etc. Fredag 19 mars 2021. S. 10—11
  30. https://www.etc.se/utrikes/darfor-kampar-madam-zjuzju-mot-belarus-diktator-utanfor-systembolaget?fbclid=IwAR0l2qznkSBaquJ-ZAG4y9TPa9vzizEuBAxMm3URMLId5NmZOQH4-PEsReo Därför kämpar Madam Zjuzju mot Belarus diktator – utanför Systembolaget

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