August 6, 2024

Foreign Policy, August 6, 2024 In March, a little-known volunteer organization dedicated to “reviving the religious and secular unity of the Russian people” escorted agents from the Internal Affairs Ministry and the Russian National Guard on a raid in the remote city of Orenburg, a city of 500,000 near the Kazakh border. Their target was […]

Putin Is Showing Us What Homophobia Looks Like as a Weapon of War

March 15, 2024

Human Rights, LGBTQ

The New York Times, March 15, 2024. Oleksii Polukhin’s 64 days in detention began when Russian soldiers stopped him at a checkpoint. They found that he’d been gathering information about Russian military positions to share with Ukrainian forces; they also discovered he was gay. Mr. Polukhin gave a detailed account of his detention to Projector, an […]

The Russian Plot To Take Back Eastern Europe At The Expense Of Gay Rights

November 9, 2013

Far Right, Human Rights, LGBTQ

Russia and its allies in countries like Ukraine are fomenting anti-gay sentiment in an effort to push back the European Union's eastern expansion. “Now, the fight [is] between East and West, Russia and Europe — Ukraine is the field of the battle,” said one LGBT activist.

J. Lester Feder

Journalist and photographer

Russia’s New Queer Purge

Putin Is Showing Us What Homophobia Looks Like as a Weapon of War

The Russian Plot To Take Back Eastern Europe At The Expense Of Gay Rights

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