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Manager Board Game 1st edition
A square, indigo board game similar to Monopoly, but reading "Manager". Manager, which became the most successful Monopoly-like made in the former Soviet Union, initially presented itself as scientific and rational in its promise of capitalist success.
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Places of Interest for Gays in Moscow
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.
"Masha the Lesbian Attacks the Officials"
A 1994 article, published in the weekly magazine Megapolis Express, on the early 1990s LGBTQ activism of M. Gessen (then known as Masha) in Russia.
A Man Who Keeps Up with the Times
An undated 1990s-era piece on David Bowie, focusing on the star’s bisexuality, in the glossy color gay magazine Mal’chishnik (Stag Party).
Gay Dawn (Light-Blue Dawn)
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.
Dear Reader
A letter to readers from the editor of a regional newspaper (from the Ural region of Russia), Гей диалог