A same-sex family with two minor children cannot yet return to Russia. This is hampered by the actions of law enforcement agencies, which call into question the safety and privacy of the family. Legal assistance to the couple in Russia is jointly provided by the LGBT initiative groups “Stimul” (Moscow) and “Coming Out” (St. Petersburg).

Just because you find out you have HIV does not mean that all relationships with HIV-negative partners have to end. Such pairs are sometimes called discordant . It is important that your partner knows their HIV status, whether you were diagnosed while you were in a relationship or already knew you had HIV when you started dating. Remember that with proper treatment and an undetectable viral load, you cannot transmit HIV.

This fall, on October 9, the French publishing house de Fallois will publish a collection of previously unpublished stories and novellas by Marcel Proust under the general title “The Mysterious Correspondent and Other Unpublished Stories,” The Guardian reports. According to one of the editors of de Fallois, in these works Proust, who was just over 20 years old at the time of writing the stories, tried to realize his homosexuality, which he was afraid to admit even to himself.

The young performer Azamat Syzdykov, performing under the pseudonym “The Kitchen Songs,” presented a new video for the song “Ekeumizge baribir” - about love that has no boundaries. Azamat’s composition “Ekeumizge baribir” glorifies true love, regardless of nationality, race, religion, gender and sexual orientation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9GPY_dxUDY “Tusinesin be? Tusinbeidi olar, turli tusti tusterindi" - says the leitmotif of the track, which translated means: “Do you understand?