Jul 12, 2024
The City
They Fled War in Ukraine to Make a Home in New York. Now, They Fear a Trump Presidency
Jun 30, 2024
RTVI Russian-speaking TV Channel in NYC
В Нью-Йорке Прошел Парад Гордости
Pride Parade Held In New York
Jun 26, 2024
WIRED
The Secret Telegram Channels Providing Refuge for LGBTQ+ People in Russia
May 19, 2024
Gay City News
Eighth annual Brighton Beach Pride March takes over southern Brooklyn
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
Dec 15, 2023
TheBody
These Are the Effects of Russia’s Crackdown on LGBTQ Existence
Nov 30, 2023
RUSA LGBTQ+ blasts Russian Supreme Court ruling outlawing ‘LGBTQ movement’
Sep 25, 2023
RTVI NYC-based Russian-language TV station
Закон о защите дрэг-артистов
A law to protect drag performers
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 17, 2023
RIA Novosti Russian state-owned agency
Russian Gays in US Call for Boycott of Sochi Games
Jun 10, 2023
Белый Дом пытается принять закон о защите ЛГБТК+
The White House tries to pass a law to protect LGBTQ+
May 22, 2023
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 9, 2023
Trans Brooklynite endures frustrating quest for accountability in Coney Island
Mar 23, 2023
RUSA LGBTQ+ to host seventh annual Brighton Beach Pride in May
May 23, 2022
Brooklyn Magazine
Scenes From Sunday’s Brighton Beach Pride Parade
May 20, 2022
Pix11
Brighton Beach Pride March calls for end of war: ‘Free Ukraine equals Free World’
Mar 20, 2022
‘Putin! Asshole!’ Scenes From a Pro-Ukraine March from Coney Island to Brighton Beach
Feb 28, 2022
Los Angeles Blade
LGBTQ Ukrainians band together in the face of war
Nov 4, 2021
Presenting the 2021 Gay City News Impact Award Honorees (LYOSHA GORSHKOV)
Jun 9, 2021
Brooklyn Paper
Brighton Beach Pride returns to Riegelmann Boardwalk
May 19, 2021
Local Pride Organizers Announce Virtual and In-Person Events
Jan 27, 2021
Michigan University
CREES Noon Lecture. Being Queer in Russia: A Conversation about Challenges Facing Russia’s LGBTQ+ Movement
Jun 2, 2020
RUSA LGBT Leads Virtual Brighton Beach Pride on YouTube Live
Jan 31, 2020
Harriman Institute of Columbia University
The Politics of Anti-LGBTQ Propaganda in Russia and Ukraine
Feb 13, 2019
Advocate
Ten Exiled LGBTQ Activists Speak
Jan 17, 2019
Out
Queers in Chechnya Are Under Attack Again. Here’s What We Know
Jan 8, 2019
Brooklyn Councilmember’s Quiet Anti-LGBTQ Crusade
Nov 28, 2018
Guac Magazine
Brighton Beach, Brooklyn: “невидимый: A Home for Whom?”
Aug 10, 2018
Gay Times
Demonstration held in NYC to mark one year since Zelim Bakaev went missing in Chechnya
Jul 18, 2018
Them
Trump's Friendship With Putin Is Terrifying for LGBTQ+ Americans
Jun 8, 2018
Vox
This World Cup, let’s talk about Russia’s LGBTIQ rights record
Jun 7, 2018
HuffPost
LGBTQ Russians Are Fleeing To NYC, But They Still Face Hostility
May 3, 2018
Voice of America
Russian Asylum Applications In US Hit 24-Year Record
Feb 14, 2018
Out.com
Voices4 & RUSA LGBT Braved the Rain For a Big, Queer 'Kiss-In' Protest
Feb 12, 2018
Dazed
Intimate photos of a queer New York kiss-in
Feb 6, 2018
Bring Your Lip Gloss to Voices4 and RUSA LGBT's 'Kiss-in' Protest on Sunday
Dec 7, 2017
Thanks to Trump, Queer Russian Refugees Are in More Danger Than Ever
Oct 17, 2017
Vice
A March for Chechnya This Weekend Rallied All of Gay Instagram
Aug 31, 2017
Rolling Stone
Masha Gessen: A Russian’s Perspective on Trump’s Autocratic Impulses
Jun 27, 2017
Awl
The politics of Pride in Brighton Beach
Jun 19, 2017
Lilith
On the Muslim-Jewish Solidarity Trail
May 25, 2017
LGBTQ Russians, Allies Liberate Brighton Beach
May 23, 2017
Gothamist
LGBTQ Russian Immigrants Give Brighton Beach Its First Pride Parade
May 22, 2017
Daily Beast
First Ever Russian-Speaking Pride March in NYC
Гей-парад на Брайтон-бич
May 20, 2017
Mic
New York's Russian LGBTQ community holds first-of-its-kind pride march in Brooklyn
May 11, 2017
What It's Like Being a Gay Russian Asylum Seeker in America
Apr 21, 2017
Gay Chechen Men Share Personal Accounts Of Abuse In This Harrowing Video
Sep 24, 2016
Reveal
Russia’s new scapegoats
Feb 3, 2016
The Nation
Transgender Russians Struggle to Take Their Movement Out of the Shadows
Jul 22, 2015
The New York Times
A Public Vow of Love, Doubling as an Act of Defiance
May 23, 2015
Marketing the rainbow
Case study: IKEA
Jun 29, 2014
Al Jazeera
Gay pride parade hits happy, bittersweet notes in New York
Feb 19, 2014
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 14, 2014
The Moscow Times
Rodnina's Daughter Nominated For LGBT Award
Feb 6, 2014
Tablet
How Yelena Goltsman Ended Up on the Front Lines in the Battle To Boycott the Olympics
Jan 17, 2014
Windy City Times
IKEA adds pro-LGBT wording to online magazine in Russia. From a RUSA LGBT press release
Jan 11, 2014
The Heartbreaking Story of Two Gay Men Who Were Forced to Flee Russia
Dec 31, 2013
Radio Free Europe/ Radio Freedom
From The U.S. To Russia, 2013 Was The Year LGBT Rights Went Global
Nov 25, 2013
Ikea Store In Brooklyn, N.Y. Hit With Gay Protest After Company Nixes Lesbian Magazine Article
Oct 11, 2013
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 3, 2013
Salon
Gay rights activists' misguided Stoli boycott
Aug 1, 2013
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
At Russian Consulate, LGBT Activists Protest Anti-Gay Laws
Jul 30, 2013
The Atlantic
Russian Vodka Boycott in Gay Bars Faces Predictable Backlash
Jul 28, 2013
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 3, 2013
Eurasianet
Russian Speakers Celebrate LGBT Pride – in New York
Jun 25, 2013
To Russia With #VirtualPride
Jun 25, 2012
Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty
Russian-Speaking New Yorkers March For Gay Rights
Jul 1, 2024
USA Stayed Forever YouTube Channel
NYC Pride March: Помянем Путина
NYC Pride March: Farewell to Putin
Jun 27, 2024
WES Mariam Assefa Fund: Insights
Empowered to Lead: Meet Enver Latifzade, LGBTQ+ Refugee and Community Leader
May 20, 2024
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 16, 2024
Big Issue
'We are here and we exist': Inside the neighbourhood offering sanctuary to queer Russians and Ukrainians
Feb 15, 2024
NYPD competed with anti-LGBTQ Chechen authorities in Dubai
Daily Express USA
Desperate Russians beg 'overwhelmed' US charity to relocate as Moscow bans LGBT movement
Nov 23, 2023
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?
Aug 2, 2023
Documented
Russia Drove LGBTQ+ People Underground. This DJ Fled and Found Community in NYC.
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 12, 2023
Newsweek
Republicans Accused of Echoing 'Putin's Playbook' With Anti-LGBTQ+ Campaign
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 21, 2023
XAVE Travels
Brighton Beach Pride 2023 Livestream
May 13, 2023
The Good Men Project
Queer Russian Immigrants Struggle to Escape Homophobic Discrimination
Apr 19, 2023
Columbia News Service
Jun 27, 2022
News12
'We are a community of immigrants' – Russian-speaking LGBTQ+ group wants to help refugees in NYC
May 22, 2022
Brighton Beach Pride March honors Ukrainian resistance
RUSA LGBTQ+ Marches for Ukraine in Brighton Beach
Mar 11, 2022
Russian flags come down in New York’s Little Odessa: ‘Putin has turned it into a fascist symbol’
Brighton Beach rallies for Ukraine as Russian invasion pushes on
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
LGBTQ+ Activists Want Biden, Pelosi to Denounce Arrest of Gay Chechen Men in Russia
Jun 22, 2020
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Pride Month isn’t the focus for LGBTQ Jews this year
May 28, 2020
RUSA LGBT Plans Virtual Brighton Beach “Pride Without Borders”
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'
Jan 14, 2019
NPR
Activists Say 40 Detained And 2 Dead In Gay Purge In Chechnya
Dec 26, 2018
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 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
Russian-speaking LGBT activists paint a rainbow in New York Hostility follows many Russian-speaking LGBT asylum seekers to New York.
Jun 1, 2018
Bklyner
Celebrate LGBTQ Pride 2018 In Brooklyn
May 2, 2018
Russian drag queens put a queer spin on songs from the Motherland
Huck Mag
New Yorkers protest homophobia by kissing in the rain
Feb 11, 2018
Logo TV
NYC "Kiss-In" Protests Anti-LGBT Violence in Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, and Tajikistan
Feb 1, 2018
The Newsweek
Trump Endangers the American Dream for Gay Immigrants
Nov 9, 2017
NBC News
Chechen Pop Singer Feared Kidnapped, Victim of 'Anti-Gay Purge'
Sep 27, 2017
‘Voices 4 Chechnya’ Speaks Out On Giving Voices To LGBTQ+ Chechens
Jul 12, 2017
Ukrainian LGBT Leader, Taras Karasiichuk, Seeks U.S. Asylum
Jun 24, 2017
Vice Media
GAYCATION's Ian Daniel Discusses Chechnya's LGBT Crisis
Jun 16, 2017
Russian-Speaking LGBT Community Shows Pride
May 24, 2017
Activist Lyosha Gorshkov On Brighton Beach Pride Parade & RUSA LGBT
NYT: Gay Russians Face Discrimination in Brooklyn
‘Make Birobidzhan Gay Again’ Dispatch from the inaugural Brighton Beach Pride Parade in south Brooklyn
May 21, 2017
After Fleeing Bias at Home, Gay Russians Say It Persists in Brooklyn
May 17, 2017
Only Greater Political Will Can Save Gay Chechens
May 1, 2017
From Russia with hate: How Putin’s anti-LGBT crackdown led to the persecution of gay men in Chechnya
Feb 13, 2017
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
Jul 31, 2015
Kyiv Post
Ukrainian gay couple marry in New York, plans to fight for equal rights at home
Jun 30, 2015
The New Yorker
A Weekend of Russian Pride
Jul 16, 2014
Human Rights First
Russia’s LGBT Community One Year Later: Q&A with Vladislav Slavskiy
Jun 10, 2014
This Gay Russian Couple Is Helping Other LGBT Immigrants Find Their Way In New York
Sochi 2014: Where Pussy Riot Gets Whipped by Cossacks
USA Today
Pussy Riot band members released after being detained in Sochi
Feb 7, 2014
“Gay Propaganda”: Oleg Dusaev and Dmitriy Stepanov
Feb 3, 2014
Daily News
Russian expat says country’s anti-gay laws go against Olympic spirit, plans to protest Sochi Games
Jan 14, 2014
The Mercury
LGBT activists give 45,000 signatures to IKEA U.S. Headquarters in Conshohocken
Fleeing anti-gay law, Russians head to New York for New Year's Eve
Dec 3, 2013
Johnny Weir Calls LGBT Protesters Picketing His Speaking Event "Idiots," Apologizes
LGBT Activists Stage Kiss-In At Brooklyn Ikea To Protest Store's Lesbian Scandal In Russia
Sep 23, 2013
New York's Metropolitan Opera Season Opens With Gay Protest
Sep 2, 2013
Forward
Yelena Goltsman Pushes for Gay Rights Boycott of Russia’s Olympics
Aug 16, 2013
The Georgia Voice
Russia’s iron closet
United Press International
Gay-rights activists pour out vodka in front of Russian consulate
Owner, Bartenders from Boxers Bars Dump Stoli in the Gutter
Protesters Dump Vodka In Front Of Russian Consulate To Protest Anti-LGBT Laws
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 24, 2013
xTra
Gay athlete plans to wear rainbow pin to Sochi Olympics in Russia
Jul 4, 2013
International Business Times
Sochi 2014 Olympics Unsafe For LGBT Community Under Russia’s Anti-Gay Law, Activists Warn
Jun 30, 2013
Banned From Marching, Russians Celebrate Gay Pride Online
Jun 24, 2013
Former Soviet Union Expats to Debut Russian Float at NYC Gay-Pride Parade
Gay Rights Activists In New York March For Equality In Russia