RePUBLIC of UzBecKia iS THo BLOCKS THE AMERICAN THINK BRITAIN'S bad for lesbians and gay men? You're right, but you should see the Soviet Union.
The barbaric laws intro duced by Uncle Joe Stalin in the 1930s are one murky area where the light of glasnost hasn't yet penetrated.
If you come out in the exUSSR, chances are that you might end up in a psychiatric hospital or prison. Gay-bashTwenty Russian lesbians and say men went on nunger strike to highlight that bigotry is still the order of the day.
After demonstrating outside the Bolshoi Theatre in the summer, the activists are relusing any sold food for three days to protest at Boris Yeltsin's lack of action.
Roman Kalinin, editor of he lema say magazine saic Russia is continuing to violate human richts.... it is time this barbaric article was removed so that gays and lesbians can at last come out of the closet!
March 21, 1992