In 1990, the rock band Lyube performed their recent hit, "Atas," on Soviet television. The band’s state-sponsored fusion of rock music with militaristic nationalism and patriotic culture would, among other things, endear them to Vladimir Putin.

An article published across two consecutive 1993 issues of the weekly magazine Novoe vremia (New Times, in print 1943-2017), in which Russian LGBTQ activist Slava Mogutin and American LGBTQ activist Sonja Franeta detail the history of homosexuality in the Soviet penal system.

A 1990 article from the weekly newspaper Argumenty i fakty (Arguments and Facts, in print since 1978) in which journalists seek comment from sociologist and psychologist Igor Kon (1928-2011) on the topic of homosexuality.

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.

A profile of Olga Ganeeva, a post-Soviet lesbian survivor of Soviet-era anti-LGBTQ repressions, published in the January 1991 issue of the LGBTQ+ magazine Risk.