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" in a 1997 issue of the gay magazine Арго

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Lesbian Masha Attacks the Bureaucrats

An article on the early 1990s LGBTQ activism of Masha Gessen in Russia

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A Man Who Keeps Up with the Times

A piece on David Bowie, focusing on the star’s bisexuality, in the glossy color gay magazine Мальчишник

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Gay Dawn (Light-Blue Dawn)

A piece in the monthly magazine Совершенно секретно in which a (presumably) heterosexual female journalist responds to the emergence of a gay subculture in early post-Soviet Russia

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Dear Reader

A letter to readers from the editor of a regional newspaper (from the Ural region of Russia), Гей диалог

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