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Jul 12, 2024
The City
They Fled War in Ukraine to Make a Home in New York. Now, They Fear a Trump Presidency
Jul 1, 2024
USA Stayed Forever YouTube Channel
NYC Pride March: Помянем Путина
NYC Pride March: Farewell to Putin
Jun 30, 2024
RTVI Russian-speaking TV Channel in NYC
В Нью-Йорке Прошел Парад Гордости
Pride Parade Held In New York
Jun 30, 2024
Gay City News.
War, rain, and rainbows at New York City Pride
At times it was the weather and at times it was war. These two circumstances came to the forefront during Heritage of Pride’s (HOP) NYC Pride March, which had a theme of “Reflect. Empower. Unite.”
Jun 27, 2024
WES Mariam Assefa Fund: Insights
Empowered to Lead: Meet Enver Latifzade, LGBTQ+ Refugee and Community Leader
Jun 26, 2024
WIRED
The Secret Telegram Channels Providing Refuge for LGBTQ+ People in Russia
May 20, 2024
Voice of America
19 мая состоялся 8-й Ежегодный гей-прайд-парад на Брайтон-Бич под лозунгом «Наша любовь не экстремизм»
On May 19, the 8th Annual gay pride march on Brighton Beach under the slogan "Our Love is not Extremism"
May 19, 2024
Gay City News
Eighth annual Brighton Beach Pride March takes over southern Brooklyn
May 16, 2024
Big Issue
'We are here and we exist': Inside the neighbourhood offering sanctuary to queer Russians and Ukrainians
Mar 5, 2024
DW in Russian
Трамп или Байден: За Кого Проголосует Русскоязычный Боайтон-Бич
Trump or Biden: Who the Russian Speaking Brighton Beach Will Vote For
Nov 30, 2023
Daily Express USA
Desperate Russians beg 'overwhelmed' US charity to relocate as Moscow bans LGBT movement
Nov 30, 2023
Gay City News
RUSA LGBTQ+ blasts Russian Supreme Court ruling outlawing ‘LGBTQ movement’
Nov 23, 2023
Voice of America
Любой ЛГБТ-человек может стать потенциальным преступником»: чем грозит признание «ЛГБТ-движения» экстремистским?
"Any LGBT person can become a potential criminal": what are the risks of recognizing the "LGBT movement" as extremist?
Sep 25, 2023
RTVI NYC-based Russian-language TV station
Закон о защите дрэг-артистов
A law to protect drag performers
Aug 2, 2023
Documented
Russia Drove LGBTQ+ People Underground. This DJ Fled and Found Community in NYC.
Jun 27, 2023
RTVI NYC-based Russian-language TV
Европа готовит визы для США, аномальная жара в Нью-Йорке, (третий гендер в школах)
NYC School system introduces Third Gender Category
Jun 23, 2023
Bureau
Дебаты с Членом Ассамблеи Аликом Бруком-Красным
Live Debate with New York State Republican Senator Alec Brook-Krasny on Pride Month
Jun 17, 2023
RIA Novosti Russian state-owned agency
Russian Gays in US Call for Boycott of Sochi Games
Jun 12, 2023
Newsweek
Republicans Accused of Echoing 'Putin's Playbook' With Anti-LGBTQ+ Campaign
Jun 10, 2023
RTVI NYC-based Russian-language TV
Белый Дом пытается принять закон о защите ЛГБТК+
The White House tries to pass a law to protect LGBTQ+
May 22, 2023
Bureau
Гей-прайд на Брайтоне: как русскоязычные жители Нью-Йорка реагируют на ЛГБТ-марш
Gay Pride on Brighton: how Russian-speaking residents of New York react to the LGBT March
May 22, 2023
Gay City News
Brighton Beach Pride spotlights LGBTQ rights, war, immigration, and democracy
May 15, 2023
The Guardian
‘This is not a small issue’: the devastating plight of LGBTQ asylum seekers
May 13, 2023
The Good Men Project
Queer Russian Immigrants Struggle to Escape Homophobic Discrimination
May 9, 2023
Gay City News
Trans Brooklynite endures frustrating quest for accountability in Coney Island
Apr 19, 2023
Columbia News Service
Queer Russian Immigrants Struggle to Escape Homophobic Discrimination
Mar 23, 2023
Gay City News
RUSA LGBTQ+ to host seventh annual Brighton Beach Pride in May
Jun 27, 2022
News12
'We are a community of immigrants' – Russian-speaking LGBTQ+ group wants to help refugees in NYC
May 20, 2022
Pix11
Brighton Beach Pride March calls for end of war: ‘Free Ukraine equals Free World’
Mar 20, 2022
Brooklyn Magazine
‘Putin! Asshole!’ Scenes From a Pro-Ukraine March from Coney Island to Brighton Beach
Mar 11, 2022
The Guardian
Russian flags come down in New York’s Little Odessa: ‘Putin has turned it into a fascist symbol’
Feb 28, 2022
Brooklyn Paper
Brighton Beach rallies for Ukraine as Russian invasion pushes on
Nov 4, 2021
Gay City News
Presenting the 2021 Gay City News Impact Award Honorees (LYOSHA GORSHKOV)
Aug 6, 2021
Journal of LGBTQ Issues in Counseling
Lived Experiences of Recent Russian-Speaking LGBT+ Immigrants in the United States: An Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis
Jun 2, 2021
News 12
Russian community celebrates start of Pride Month with march at Brighton Beach
Feb 10, 2021
Them
LGBTQ+ Activists Want Biden, Pelosi to Denounce Arrest of Gay Chechen Men in Russia
Jan 27, 2021
Michigan University
CREES Noon Lecture. Being Queer in Russia: A Conversation about Challenges Facing Russia’s LGBTQ+ Movement
Jun 22, 2020
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Pride Month isn’t the focus for LGBTQ Jews this year
May 28, 2020
Gay City News
RUSA LGBT Plans Virtual Brighton Beach “Pride Without Borders”
Jan 31, 2020
Harriman Institute of Columbia University
The Politics of Anti-LGBTQ Propaganda in Russia and Ukraine
Sep 13, 2019
Hamilton Lugar School News
From Russia with Pride: Queer Russian politics takes center stage at HLS
Jan 29, 2019
Paper Magazine
Russian Official Threatens LGBTQ Leader: 'Go Back to Where You Belong'
Dec 26, 2018
Eurasianet
New York’s post-Soviet gay community discusses imported homophobia
Nov 19, 2018
Eurasianet Video
ЛГБТ и второй Брайтон Бич Прайд
LGBT and the second Brighton Beach Pride
Aug 10, 2018
Gay Times
Demonstration held in NYC to mark one year since Zelim Bakaev went missing in Chechnya
Aug 9, 2018
The Pink News
Gay singer Zelim Bakaev went missing a year ago in Chechnya—what happened to him remains a mystery
Jun 25, 2018
W Magazine
Meet the Rainbow of Activists Who Marched at the NYC Pride Parade
Jun 8, 2018
Eurasianet
Russian-speaking LGBT activists paint a rainbow in New York Hostility follows many Russian-speaking LGBT asylum seekers to New York.
Feb 14, 2018
Out.com
Voices4 & RUSA LGBT Braved the Rain For a Big, Queer 'Kiss-In' Protest
Feb 11, 2018
Logo TV
NYC "Kiss-In" Protests Anti-LGBT Violence in Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, and Tajikistan
Feb 6, 2018
Out.com
Bring Your Lip Gloss to Voices4 and RUSA LGBT's 'Kiss-in' Protest on Sunday
Aug 31, 2017
Rolling Stone
Masha Gessen: A Russian’s Perspective on Trump’s Autocratic Impulses
May 23, 2017
Gothamist
LGBTQ Russian Immigrants Give Brighton Beach Its First Pride Parade
May 22, 2017
Tablet
‘Make Birobidzhan Gay Again’ Dispatch from the inaugural Brighton Beach Pride Parade in south Brooklyn
May 21, 2017
The New York Times
After Fleeing Bias at Home, Gay Russians Say It Persists in Brooklyn
May 20, 2017
Mic
New York's Russian LGBTQ community holds first-of-its-kind pride march in Brooklyn
May 1, 2017
Salon
From Russia with hate: How Putin’s anti-LGBT crackdown led to the persecution of gay men in Chechnya
Apr 21, 2017
HuffPost
Gay Chechen Men Share Personal Accounts Of Abuse In This Harrowing Video
Feb 13, 2017
Gay Times
Voices4 stage New York City queer kiss-in to stop anti-LGBTQ purges
Jun 15, 2016
Forum Daily
Russian-speaking gays and lesbians start life from scratch in New York
Feb 3, 2016
The Nation
Transgender Russians Struggle to Take Their Movement Out of the Shadows
Jul 31, 2015
Kyiv Post
Ukrainian gay couple marry in New York, plans to fight for equal rights at home
Jul 16, 2014
Human Rights First
Russia’s LGBT Community One Year Later: Q&A with Vladislav Slavskiy
Jun 10, 2014
Buzzfeed
This Gay Russian Couple Is Helping Other LGBT Immigrants Find Their Way In New York
Feb 19, 2014
Mic
Gay Russian Artist Says He Won't Let Being Exiled Stop Him From Fighting Putin
Feb 18, 2014
Campaign
Marketing and the LGBT community: when will it be normal to have gay couples in campaigns?
Feb 6, 2014
Tablet
How Yelena Goltsman Ended Up on the Front Lines in the Battle To Boycott the Olympics
Feb 3, 2014
Daily News
Russian expat says country’s anti-gay laws go against Olympic spirit, plans to protest Sochi Games
Jan 17, 2014
Windy City Times
IKEA adds pro-LGBT wording to online magazine in Russia. From a RUSA LGBT press release
Jan 14, 2014
The Mercury
LGBT activists give 45,000 signatures to IKEA U.S. Headquarters in Conshohocken
Jan 11, 2014
HuffPost
The Heartbreaking Story of Two Gay Men Who Were Forced to Flee Russia
Dec 31, 2013
Al Jazeera
Fleeing anti-gay law, Russians head to New York for New Year's Eve
Dec 31, 2013
Radio Free Europe/ Radio Freedom
From The U.S. To Russia, 2013 Was The Year LGBT Rights Went Global
Dec 3, 2013
Buzzfeed
Johnny Weir Calls LGBT Protesters Picketing His Speaking Event "Idiots," Apologizes
Nov 25, 2013
HuffPost
Ikea Store In Brooklyn, N.Y. Hit With Gay Protest After Company Nixes Lesbian Magazine Article
Nov 25, 2013
Buzzfeed
LGBT Activists Stage Kiss-In At Brooklyn Ikea To Protest Store's Lesbian Scandal In Russia
Oct 11, 2013
The Guardian
Kudos to the Nobel peace prize winner, but it's another snub for LGBT activists
Sep 4, 2013
Buzzfeed
"Love Always Wins": Hundreds Of New Yorkers Gather To Support Russia's LGBT Community
Aug 29, 2013
The Georgia Straight
LGBT activists dump Coca-Cola to protest Russia's antigay laws
Aug 1, 2013
United Press International
Gay-rights activists pour out vodka in front of Russian consulate
Aug 1, 2013
The Moscow Times
Gay Rights Activists Dump Vodka Outside Russian Consulate in NY
Jul 31, 2013
Queer Nation NY
Queer Nation / RUSA LGBT Protest at the Russian Consulate in NYC
Jul 31, 2013
Buzzfeed
Protesters Dump Vodka In Front Of Russian Consulate To Protest Anti-LGBT Laws
Jul 30, 2013
Gay City News
ACT UP Disrupts Stoli Splash Bash; July 31 Demo Planned at Russian Consulate
Jul 29, 2013
NYC News
Gay activists call for boycott of 2014 Olympics – and Russian vodka
Jul 28, 2013
The Moscow Times
Vodka Brand Stands With Lesbians and Gays Against the Government
Jul 11, 2013
Skift
New York LGBT group calls for boycott of Russia’s 2014 Winter Olympics
Jul 4, 2013
International Business Times
Sochi 2014 Olympics Unsafe For LGBT Community Under Russia’s Anti-Gay Law, Activists Warn
Jun 24, 2013
The Atlantic
Former Soviet Union Expats to Debut Russian Float at NYC Gay-Pride Parade
Jun 25, 2012
Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty
Russian-Speaking New Yorkers March For Gay Rights
Jun 25, 2012
Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty
Gay Rights Activists In New York March For Equality In Russia
