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.

A 1994 piece in the monthly magazine Sovershenno sekretno (Top Secret) in which a (presumably) heterosexual female journalist, Aelita Efimova, responds to the emergence of a gay subculture in early post-Soviet Russia.

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.

Images from a photo shoot from the Polushkin Brothers’ Fash-Fashion collection, which alluded to both queer and fascist aesthetics. Images in the series appeared, respectively, in an ad for Dr. Martens in the lifestyle magazine “Ptiuch,” and as an example of the countercultural aesthetics of the National Bolshevik Party in the pages of its press organ, “Limonka.”

A 1991 edition of Eduard Limonov’s It’s Me, Eddie (1979) published by Moscow’s Glagol Press.