Journalist and LGBTQ activist Yaroslav “Slava” Mogutin responds, in the monthly magazine Top Secret (Sovershenno sekretno), to Aelita Efimova’s homophobic article on gay men in post-Soviet Russia from the same publication. 

An infamous 1994 article on the First Chechen War by controversial gay journalist Slava Mogutin, published in Novyi vzgliad (New View).

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.

A mean-spirited Pravda piece from 16 April 1994 about Slava Mogutin’s attempt, four days earlier, to register marriage to his partner, Robert Filippini.

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.

The 1994 music video for “Egoist,” a song by pop-music artist Boris Moiseev.