Why will participants and veterans of Putin’s war with Ukraine always be dangerous to us? For this text, the author is destined for a separate heated boiler in hell, and before that it will come from all directions. This cannot be written from a morally blameless position. Even worse, we are entering the shaky ground of discrimination, which Russian queers have had enough of and will still have enough of.

The reason for the inspection was a book by Vladimir Makanin entitled “Prisoner of the Caucasus” In Russia, the fight against “LGBT propaganda” has reached a school in the Orenburg region. “Restrained citizens” were outraged that Vladimir Makanin’s story “Prisoner of the Caucasus” was included in the educational program.

On January 8, RuNet lost one of its oldest sites - the portal xGay.ru (formerly Gay.ru), created by Ed Mishin in 1997. This event became a vivid example of the consequences of Russian repression against the LGBT community. We asked activists and bloggers to share what Gay.ru was for them and what they think about its closure. Gratitude for Identity For many of our interlocutors, Gay.ru was the first (and at one time the only) Russian-language portal about LGBT people.

We continue our project “Gay from the Outback”. We tell the stories of members of the LGBTQ community living in small towns This time we will tell the story of a non-binary and transgender person originally from Serafimovka. This is a very small village with a population of only a few hundred people.

We share upcoming new products There are a lot of interesting films coming out soon that are directly related to the queer community. Some of them look extremely attractive. Especially for our readers, we have selected several upcoming new products and decided to tell you about them. What will 2024 delight us with - read below! Mean Girls Almost 20 years after the release of the original film, a musical reboot of Mean Girls is being released.