A clip from an episode on male prostitution featured on the talk show Pro eto (About That, 1997-2000) hosted by journalist Yelena Khanga (1962-).

Journalist and LGBTQ activist Yaroslav “Slava” Mogutin responds, in the monthly magazine Top Secret (Sovershenno sekretno), to Aelita Efimova’s homophobic article on gay men in post-Soviet Russia from the same publication. 

A late-Soviet article, published in the mainstream paper Literaturnaia gazeta, on the topic of the ongoing AIDS epidemic. 

Article about the love affair between and the literary destinies of the poets Sergei Esenin and Nikolai Kliuev in the literary supplement to the gay newspaper 1/10

An infamous 1994 article on the First Chechen War by controversial gay journalist Slava Mogutin, published in Novyi vzgliad (New View).

An annotated map of gay locales—cafes, bars, nightclubs, saunas, and cruising areas or pleshki—published in a 1997 issue of the gay magazine Argo.