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“The Creation of Adam” (1993, dir. Yu. Pavlov)
A scene from a 1993 Russian feature film that includes gay themes.
Yelena Bonner: "Nothing Interests Me Less than This Problem"
M. Gessen interview with Yelena Bonner (1923-2011), wife of Nobel Peace Prize-winning dissident and nuclear physicist Andrei Sakharov (1921-1989), published in the LGBTQ magazine Tema.
Raid at Shans. Gays triumph.
A 1996 item about a police raid at a gay nightclub from the Triangle Center LGBTQ community bulletin, Tsentr treugol’nik informatsionnyi biulleten’.
“Dear Reader” by Valery Klimov
A 1994 letter to readers from the editor of a regional Ural newspaper, Gay Dialogue.
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.
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.