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Front page of Komsomol'skaia pravda in new format

Front page of KP when the format of the printed version changed to adjust to 1990s print media reading habits and financial constraints

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An “initiative group survey” from the Leningrad Rock Club

This official “initiative group survey” from the Leningrad Rock Club was completed by Sergei Kuryokhin (1954-1996) of the band Pop Mekhanika sometime in the 1980s.

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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.

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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.

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Valery Pereleshin

A 1992 piece on the gay Russian émigré poet Valery Pereleshin (1913-1992), with excerpts from his verse cycle Ariel.

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