Explore: event » repeal-of-article-121

Revisiting Tchaikovsky’s Supposed Suicide: A Rebuttal

A 1993 article from the journal Gay, slaviane that disputed accounts of Tchaikovsky having killed himself out of fear of being publicly outed as a homosexual.

View Artifact

"The Only Place You'll Find a Happy Gay is in a Coffin"

A pseudoscientific article on “cures” or “treatments” for homosexuality, published in 1994 in the storied tabloid daily Komsomolskaya pravda (est. 1925).

View Artifact

Gays and Lefties: Comrades in Misfortune

An interview with a gay activist known as “Yuri Eremeev” published in the monthly journal Smena (Shift) in 1992. 

View Artifact

“Rock Against Terror”

The concert logo for the Rok protiv terrora (Rock Against Terror) music festival, which took place in Moscow on 6 April 1991.

View Artifact