Feb 15, 2024
Gay City News
NYPD competed with anti-LGBTQ Chechen authorities in Dubai
Nov 30, 2023
Daily Express USA
Desperate Russians beg 'overwhelmed' US charity to relocate as Moscow bans LGBT movement
May 13, 2023
The Good Men Project
Queer Russian Immigrants Struggle to Escape Homophobic Discrimination
May 9, 2023
Trans Brooklynite endures frustrating quest for accountability in Coney Island
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
Sep 25, 2023
RTVI (NYC-based Russian-language TV station)
Закон о защите дрэг-артистов
A law to protect drag performers
May 22, 2023
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
Mar 23, 2023
RUSA LGBTQ+ to host seventh annual Brighton Beach Pride in May
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
May 21, 2023
XAVE Travels
Brighton Beach Pride 2023 Livestream
Apr 19, 2023
Columbia News Service
Mar 20, 2022
RUSA LGBTQ+ Marches for Ukraine in Brighton Beach
Feb 28, 2022
Los Angeles Blade
LGBTQ Ukrainians band together in the face of war
May 20, 2022
Pix11
Brighton Beach Pride March calls for end of war: ‘Free Ukraine equals Free World’
Jun 27, 2022
News12
'We are a community of immigrants' – Russian-speaking LGBTQ+ group wants to help refugees in NYC
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
Jun 9, 2021
Brooklyn Paper
Brighton Beach Pride returns to Riegelmann Boardwalk
Nov 4, 2021
Presenting the 2021 Gay City News Impact Award Honorees (LYOSHA GORSHKOV)
Jan 31, 2020
Harriman Institute of Columbia University
The Politics of Anti-LGBTQ Propaganda in Russia and Ukraine
Jun 22, 2020
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Pride Month isn’t the focus for LGBTQ Jews this year
Jan 29, 2019
Paper Magazine
Russian Official Threatens LGBTQ Leader: 'Go Back to Where You Belong'
Sep 13, 2019
Hamilton Lugar School News
From Russia with Pride: Queer Russian politics takes center stage at HLS
Jan 17, 2019
Out
Queers in Chechnya Are Under Attack Again. Here’s What We Know
May 3, 2018
Voice of America
Russian Asylum Applications In US Hit 24-Year Record
Feb 11, 2018
Logo TV
NYC "Kiss-In" Protests Anti-LGBT Violence in Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, and Tajikistan
Feb 12, 2018
Huck Mag
New Yorkers protest homophobia by kissing in the rain
Feb 6, 2018
Out.com
Bring Your Lip Gloss to Voices4 and RUSA LGBT's 'Kiss-in' Protest on Sunday
Aug 10, 2018
Gay Times
Demonstration held in NYC to mark one year since Zelim Bakaev went missing in Chechnya
Jun 25, 2018
W Magazine
Meet the Rainbow of Activists Who Marched at the NYC Pride Parade
Feb 1, 2018
The Newsweek
Trump Endangers the American Dream for Gay Immigrants
Nov 19, 2018
Eurasianet Video
ЛГБТ и второй Брайтон Бич Прайд
LGBT and the second Brighton Beach Pride
May 2, 2018
Eurasianet
Russian drag queens put a queer spin on songs from the Motherland
Sep 27, 2017
HuffPost
‘Voices 4 Chechnya’ Speaks Out On Giving Voices To LGBTQ+ Chechens
May 23, 2017
Gothamist
LGBTQ Russian Immigrants Give Brighton Beach Its First Pride Parade
Apr 21, 2017
Gay Chechen Men Share Personal Accounts Of Abuse In This Harrowing Video
May 1, 2017
Salon
From Russia with hate: How Putin’s anti-LGBT crackdown led to the persecution of gay men in Chechnya
Jun 16, 2017
Russian-Speaking LGBT Community Shows Pride
May 22, 2017
Daily Beast
First Ever Russian-Speaking Pride March in NYC
Dec 7, 2017
Them
Thanks to Trump, Queer Russian Refugees Are in More Danger Than Ever
Гей-парад на Брайтон-бич
Jun 24, 2017
Vice Media
GAYCATION's Ian Daniel Discusses Chechnya's LGBT Crisis
May 20, 2017
Mic
New York's Russian LGBTQ community holds first-of-its-kind pride march in Brooklyn
Aug 31, 2017
Rolling Stone
Masha Gessen: A Russian’s Perspective on Trump’s Autocratic Impulses
May 25, 2017
LGBTQ Russians, Allies Liberate Brighton Beach
Sep 24, 2016
Reveal
Russia’s new scapegoats
Jun 15, 2016
Forum Daily
Russian-speaking gays and lesbians start life from scratch in New York
Jun 30, 2015
The New Yorker
A Weekend of Russian Pride
Jul 22, 2015
The New York Times
A Public Vow of Love, Doubling as an Act of Defiance
Feb 18, 2014
Campaign
Marketing and the LGBT community: when will it be normal to have gay couples in campaigns?
Jun 10, 2014
Buzzfeed
This Gay Russian Couple Is Helping Other LGBT Immigrants Find Their Way In New York
Feb 7, 2014
“Gay Propaganda”: Oleg Dusaev and Dmitriy Stepanov
Jan 11, 2014
The Heartbreaking Story of Two Gay Men Who Were Forced to Flee Russia
USA Today
Pussy Riot band members released after being detained in Sochi
Jan 17, 2014
Windy City Times
IKEA adds pro-LGBT wording to online magazine in Russia. From a RUSA LGBT press release
Jul 16, 2014
Human Rights First
Russia’s LGBT Community One Year Later: Q&A with Vladislav Slavskiy
Dec 31, 2013
Al Jazeera
Fleeing anti-gay law, Russians head to New York for New Year's Eve
Jul 28, 2013
The Moscow Times
Vodka Brand Stands With Lesbians and Gays Against the Government
Aug 3, 2013
Gay rights activists' misguided Stoli boycott
Jul 31, 2013
Owner, Bartenders from Boxers Bars Dump Stoli in the Gutter
Queer Nation NY
Queer Nation / RUSA LGBT Protest at the Russian Consulate in NYC
Sep 4, 2013
"Love Always Wins": Hundreds Of New Yorkers Gather To Support Russia's LGBT Community
Protesters Dump Vodka In Front Of Russian Consulate To Protest Anti-LGBT Laws
Jul 3, 2013
Russian Speakers Celebrate LGBT Pride – in New York
Jul 4, 2013
International Business Times
Sochi 2014 Olympics Unsafe For LGBT Community Under Russia’s Anti-Gay Law, Activists Warn
Jul 11, 2013
Skift
New York LGBT group calls for boycott of Russia’s 2014 Winter Olympics
At Russian Consulate, LGBT Activists Protest Anti-Gay Laws
Jul 30, 2013
The Atlantic
Russian Vodka Boycott in Gay Bars Faces Predictable Backlash
Oct 11, 2013
The Guardian
Kudos to the Nobel peace prize winner, but it's another snub for LGBT activists
Radio Free Europe/ Radio Freedom
From The U.S. To Russia, 2013 Was The Year LGBT Rights Went Global
Jun 25, 2012
Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty
Russian-Speaking New Yorkers March For Gay Rights
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
May 15, 2023
‘This is not a small issue’: the devastating plight of LGBTQ asylum seekers
Dec 15, 2023
TheBody
These Are the Effects of Russia’s Crackdown on LGBTQ Existence
Aug 2, 2023
Documented
Russia Drove LGBTQ+ People Underground. This DJ Fled and Found Community in NYC.
Jun 12, 2023
Newsweek
Republicans Accused of Echoing 'Putin's Playbook' With Anti-LGBTQ+ Campaign
RUSA LGBTQ+ blasts Russian Supreme Court ruling outlawing ‘LGBTQ movement’
Jun 10, 2023
Белый Дом пытается принять закон о защите ЛГБТК+
The White House tries to pass a law to protect LGBTQ+
Brighton Beach Pride spotlights LGBTQ rights, war, immigration, and democracy
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?
Jun 17, 2023
RIA Novosti (Russia's state-owned agency)
Russian Gays in US Call for Boycott of Sochi Games
Mar 11, 2022
Russian flags come down in New York’s Little Odessa: ‘Putin has turned it into a fascist symbol’
Brooklyn Magazine
‘Putin! Asshole!’ Scenes From a Pro-Ukraine March from Coney Island to Brighton Beach
Brighton Beach rallies for Ukraine as Russian invasion pushes on
May 22, 2022
Brighton Beach Pride March honors Ukrainian resistance
May 23, 2022
Scenes From Sunday’s Brighton Beach Pride Parade
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
Feb 10, 2021
LGBTQ+ Activists Want Biden, Pelosi to Denounce Arrest of Gay Chechen Men in Russia
May 28, 2020
RUSA LGBT Plans Virtual Brighton Beach “Pride Without Borders”
Jun 2, 2020
RUSA LGBT Leads Virtual Brighton Beach Pride on YouTube Live
Jan 8, 2019
Brooklyn Councilmember’s Quiet Anti-LGBTQ Crusade
Feb 13, 2019
Advocate
Ten Exiled LGBTQ Activists Speak
Jan 14, 2019
NPR
Activists Say 40 Detained And 2 Dead In Gay Purge In Chechnya
Jul 18, 2018
Trump's Friendship With Putin Is Terrifying for LGBTQ+ Americans
Dec 26, 2018
New York’s post-Soviet gay community discusses imported homophobia
Jun 8, 2018
Vox
This World Cup, let’s talk about Russia’s LGBTIQ rights record
Jun 7, 2018
LGBTQ Russians Are Fleeing To NYC, But They Still Face Hostility
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
Nov 28, 2018
Guac Magazine
Brighton Beach, Brooklyn: “невидимый: A Home for Whom?”
Aug 9, 2018
The Pink News
Gay singer Zelim Bakaev went missing a year ago in Chechnya—what happened to him remains a mystery
Dazed
Intimate photos of a queer New York kiss-in
Feb 14, 2018
Voices4 & RUSA LGBT Braved the Rain For a Big, Queer 'Kiss-In' Protest
NYT: Gay Russians Face Discrimination in Brooklyn
Jun 19, 2017
Lilith
On the Muslim-Jewish Solidarity Trail
Feb 13, 2017
Voices4 stage New York City queer kiss-in to stop anti-LGBTQ purges
May 24, 2017
Activist Lyosha Gorshkov On Brighton Beach Pride Parade & RUSA LGBT
Jun 27, 2017
Awl
The politics of Pride in Brighton Beach
Tablet
‘Make Birobidzhan Gay Again’ Dispatch from the inaugural Brighton Beach Pride Parade in south Brooklyn
Jul 12, 2017
Ukrainian LGBT Leader, Taras Karasiichuk, Seeks U.S. Asylum
Nov 9, 2017
NBC News
Chechen Pop Singer Feared Kidnapped, Victim of 'Anti-Gay Purge'
May 17, 2017
Only Greater Political Will Can Save Gay Chechens
May 11, 2017
Vice
What It's Like Being a Gay Russian Asylum Seeker in America
May 21, 2017
After Fleeing Bias at Home, Gay Russians Say It Persists in Brooklyn
Oct 17, 2017
A March for Chechnya This Weekend Rallied All of Gay Instagram
Feb 3, 2016
The Nation
Transgender Russians Struggle to Take Their Movement Out of the Shadows
May 23, 2015
Marketing the rainbow
Case study: IKEA
Jul 31, 2015
Kyiv Post
Ukrainian gay couple marry in New York, plans to fight for equal rights at home
Feb 19, 2014
Gay Russian Artist Says He Won't Let Being Exiled Stop Him From Fighting Putin
Feb 6, 2014
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
Jun 29, 2014
Gay pride parade hits happy, bittersweet notes in New York
Jan 14, 2014
The Mercury
LGBT activists give 45,000 signatures to IKEA U.S. Headquarters in Conshohocken
Feb 14, 2014
Rodnina's Daughter Nominated For LGBT Award
Sochi 2014: Where Pussy Riot Gets Whipped by Cossacks
Aug 1, 2013
United Press International
Gay-rights activists pour out vodka in front of Russian consulate
ACT UP Disrupts Stoli Splash Bash; July 31 Demo Planned at Russian Consulate
Nov 25, 2013
Ikea Store In Brooklyn, N.Y. Hit With Gay Protest After Company Nixes Lesbian Magazine Article
Aug 16, 2013
The Georgia Voice
Russia’s iron closet
Dec 3, 2013
Johnny Weir Calls LGBT Protesters Picketing His Speaking Event "Idiots," Apologizes
Sep 23, 2013
New York's Metropolitan Opera Season Opens With Gay Protest
Aug 29, 2013
The Georgia Straight
LGBT activists dump Coca-Cola to protest Russia's antigay laws
Sep 2, 2013
Forward
Yelena Goltsman Pushes for Gay Rights Boycott of Russia’s Olympics
LGBT Activists Stage Kiss-In At Brooklyn Ikea To Protest Store's Lesbian Scandal In Russia
Jun 30, 2013
Banned From Marching, Russians Celebrate Gay Pride Online
Jul 24, 2013
xTra
Gay athlete plans to wear rainbow pin to Sochi Olympics in Russia
Gay Rights Activists Dump Vodka Outside Russian Consulate in NY
Jul 29, 2013
NYC News
Gay activists call for boycott of 2014 Olympics – and Russian vodka
Jun 24, 2013
Former Soviet Union Expats to Debut Russian Float at NYC Gay-Pride Parade
Jun 25, 2013
To Russia With #VirtualPride
Gay Rights Activists In New York March For Equality In Russia