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Homosexuality in Soviet Prisons and Camps
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.
You Can't Teach the Left-handed to Be Right-handed
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.
Soviet Homosexuals: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow
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.
"Brother! Protect Yourself from AIDS!"
A public service announcement on AIDS prevention published in a 1993 issue of the gay magazine Impulse.
Vladimir Vesyolkin, "Impossible Love"
The album art for the 1992 LP Impossible Love (Nevozmozhnaia liubov’) by Vova and the Organ of Internal Affairs (Vova i organ vnutrennikh del).
“Olga: Love and Faith Have Not Disappeared”
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.