justsmth2:

I’ll promote ukrainian gay cossacks around the world.

so, this is Ivan and Nazar from one ukrainian series

to your knowledge, the cossacks were partly warriors partly ordinary citizens who created their own state of the Zaporizhian Host (modern Ukraine) and defended these lands from the russians, poles, tatars etc. in the summer they gathered in places called the Sich and lived there, serving, solving military and political issues, defending themselves and attacking if necessary.

women were forbidden to enter the Sich, and how men spent their personal time is unknown, but there are many reports of very strong “brotherly” unions between two men who were even baptized in the ortodox church