Thematic Tags: Lgbtq
Live performance of the rock band Auktsyon at the Leningrad Rock Club. As an art-jazz-rock collective, Auktsyon was a genre-blending musical and performance phenomenon within the Leningrad underground, which distinguished itself from other bands with both its longevity and stylistic variation, gradually increasing antiestablishment content in its music throughout the post-Soviet period, while maintaining a layer of ideological ambiguity.
Image of two shirtless men lighting cigarettes in the course of a dance performance illustrating homosexuality
Masha Gessen interview with Elena Bonner, published in the LGBTQ magazine Тема
Article on the affair between poets Marina Tsvetaeva and Sophia Parnok in LGBTQ magazine Риск
Russian translation of an article by American scholar Simon Karlinsky on Sergei Diaghilev, published in the LGBTQ magazine Тема
Article about the love affair between and the literary destinies of the poets Sergei Esenin and Nikolai Kliuev in the literary supplement to the gay newspaper 1/10
Item about a police raid at a gay nightclub from the LGBTQ community bulletin Центр треугольник информационный бюллетень
LGBTQ activist Yaroslav “Slava” Mogutin’s response to another article on gay men in post-Soviet Russia (by Aelita Efimova) in the magazine Совершенно секретно.