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A Man Who Keeps Up with the Times
A piece on David Bowie, focusing on the star’s bisexuality, in the glossy color gay magazine Мальчишник
You Can't Teach the Lefthanded to Be Righthanded
An article from Argumenty i fakty from 1990 in which w journalists seek comment from Igor Kon on the topic of homosexuality
Soviet Homosexuals: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow
Essay by gay former Soviet inmate published in journal Gay, славяне!
Revisiting Tchaikovsky's Supposed Suicide: Rebuttal
Article disputing accounts of Tchaikovsky’s suicide in the face of having his homosexuality broadly divulged.
Love is Nasty, It Can Make you Fall in Love with An Asshole
Item in Правда about Slava Mogutin’s attempt to register marriage to partner Robert Filipini
The Creation of Adam (1993, dir. Iu. Pavlov)
Scene from 1993 Russian feature film with gay themes
Eduard Limonov: It’s Me, Eddy, Glagol Press.
Glagol Press (Moscow) 1991 edition of Eduard Limonov’s It’s Me, Eddy.
Boris Moiseev: Egoist
Music video for song by pop-music artist Boris Moiseev
Impossible Love
LP (represented here by album cover and artwork) Impossible Love (Невозможная любовь) By Vova and the Organ of Internal Affairs (Вова и орган вунтренных дел)
Sergei Penkin: "Holiday" Album Cover
Cover art for an album by pop-music artist Sergei Penkin.
K Chitateliu
A letter to readers from the editor of a regional newspaper (from the Ural region of Russia), Гей диалог
Homosexuality in Soviet Prisons and Camps
An article by Russian LGBTQ activist Slava Mogutin and American LGBTQ activist Sonja Franeta on the history of homosexuality in the Soviet penal system
The First Article on Prostitution in the Soviet Union
"The White Dance" by Evgeny Dodolev broke a major taboo of Soviet press, by doing a report on the existence of foreign-currency prostitutes in the USSR. Dodolev would then go on to be a part of the Vzgliad team, as well as the creator of 1990s "Novyi vzgliad"
"Moscovskii komsomolets," 19-21 November, 1986
Megapolis-Ekspress: Urban Exoticism and National Pride
Igor Dudinsky takes over the magazine Megapolis-ekspress and turns it into an extreme and surreal parody of the lowest and most excessively sensationalist forms of Western tabloids.
the eXile: Bespredel for Expats
A selection of articles from the English-language magazine the eXile, which combined gonzo journalism and styob and provided unique reporting on post-Soviet Russia, while at the same time fetishizing the 1990s lawlessness or bespredel and the Westerners’ exploitation of Russia (sexual and otherwise) that it itself denounced and condemned.
Pro Eto - The Sexual Lives of the Disabled
Clip from Pro Eto hosted by Elena Khanga that brings together 1990s interest in sex with the increasing visibility of disabilities and the disintegration of state institutions previously entrusted with their care.