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In Chicago, a gifted gay violinist from Russia found freedom and a family. VIDEO

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Violinist from Russia, 23-year-old Artem Kolesov, spoke in a video blog about how difficult it was for him to recognize his homosexuality.

Artyom grew up in Maloyaroslavets in a religious family: his father was a deacon, and his mother was a youth pastor of the Pentecostal church. The whole family hated gays, considered them to be hell, not knowing that the son of a wunderkind, a talented violinist, whom they were so proud of, was a homosexual.

“In my family,” he said, “I often heard that all gays should be exterminated, that they should be bombed, and that if anyone in our family turned out to be gay, my family should kill him with their bare hands.”

Artem says he guessed about his orientation in early childhood, he also considered it a sin and even signed a Christian petition against the gay parade in St. Petersburg in 12 years.

He tells how he exhausted himself with studies to get rid of “sinful” thoughts, and tried to commit suicide five times.

“I never thought I’d live to see 23,” he told the camera. “I think about everything I would have missed if I had taken my own life.”

Musical talent (he performed solo with the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra) provided Artem with the opportunity to go to study in Canada, then in the USA, he now lives in Chicago and plays in the string quartet YAS.

Life in America gave him an understanding that his parents and their like-minded people were mistaken, and ignorance was ruining their children. He decided to tell everything to his mother, and then to his audience YouTubechannel.

Artem specially recorded his story in Russian to support LGBT teenagers in Russia, who, thanks to Mizulina’s law, are protected “from gay propaganda.”

He is a slim man with bright eyes. The left side of his face is almost paralyzed, which, as he explained in the video, is the result of nerve damage during childbirth.

Almost every day Kolesov receives new messages from Russian children who have fallen into the culture, where they are ashamed and dangerous. He spends a lot of time talking to them and is grateful to fate that he went to Chicago, where he does not need to hide.

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He came to the city two years ago from Canada to work with the famous violinist Almita Vamos.

“When he started studying with me, he told the kids, ‘Don’t tell her I’m gay,’” Vamos said. “He was afraid that I would react badly.”

In the end, he told that he was gay and about the relationship between him and his family, especially his mother, whom he loved very much and whom he always wanted to please.

Once, at the age of 7, he overheard her friends, whom she complained that she had only sons and no daughters. Artyom put a couple of gaiters on his head, imitating braids, and approached her with the words: "I will be your daughter and help you around the house."

If she suspected the truth about her son's sexuality, she never spoke about it. Only in March, after she came to visit her son in Chicago, did he admit to her.

His mother told him that it was unnatural, that he was just trying to be cool, did not find the right girl, needed an MRI and had to return to Russia to recover.

After the video became viral, many of the old friends in Russia removed Kolesov from friends in social networks. He said that the Russian church, which he had once attended, learned about the video and plans to hold a youth course on why gays are wrong.

Now, even if he wants to go home, he will not be safe. By recording and uploading videos to the Internet, he violated the law of “gay propaganda”, which prohibits the dissemination of information about “non-traditional sexual relationships” with minors.

After the release of the video, Kolesov not only lost friends, but acquired new ones.

"I saw this video on Facebook, said Bruce Koff, a longtime Chicago gay activist, “and I started crying.” “I went to my husband and said, ‘You have to watch this,’ and he cried too.”

They and some friends contacted Kolesov and organized a charity concert, which will be held on Saturday, 26 August, in Center on Halsted. Kolesov will perform together with the famous violinist Rachel Burton Pyne. Some of the money received will help him pay legal fees associated with obtaining a green card, and the rest will be sent to organizations that help LGBT people fleeing persecution in other countries.

In May, Kolesov was married. The only thing he regrets is that there was no mother around.

“I hope her love for me is greater than these misconceptions,” he said.

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