A 1992 piece on the gay Russian émigré poet Valery Pereleshin (1913-1992), with excerpts from his verse cycle Ariel.

Published in the 13 March 1988 issue of the daily newspaper “Sovetskaia Rossiia” (Soviet Russia), this letter by chemistry lecturer and Stalinist apologist Nina Andreeva (1938-2020) sparked tens of thousands of public responses, revealing that conservative currents in the Communist Party and beyond now faced strong resistance from a glasnost-empowered public.

A 1991 essay by Gennady Trifonov, a gay former Soviet inmate, published in the journal Gay, slaviane (a pun on the exclamation Gei, slaviane!—“Hey, Slavs!”) in 1993.

In 1992, the Beatles superfan and rock-and-roll activist Kolia Vasin (1945-2018) petitioned the St. Petersburg authorities to establish a public “John Lennon Temple of Rock-n-Roll.” 

A public service announcement on AIDS prevention published in a 1993 issue of the gay magazine Impulse.

A mean-spirited Pravda piece from 16 April 1994 about Slava Mogutin’s attempt, four days earlier, to register marriage to his partner, Robert Filippini.