Polarization Forgotten revolutionaries Ukraine’s LGBT community depends on the West to defend their rights dispatch Ian Bateson
Polarization The absent activists Silicon Valley’s extraordinarily wealthy and powerful companies, which have advocated forcefully for LGBTQ rights throughout America, are remaining silent about Putin’s anti-gay laws as they pursue the Russian market feature Alan Deutschman
Polarization The primetime bombshell What happened when a Russian celebrity revealed his HIV positive status on live TV dispatch Anna Nemtsova
Polarization Legal circuses Kafkaesque legal wranglings against activists have succeeded in shutting down a gay rights movement in Russia. These four cases paved the way feature Olga Kravets
Polarization Politics and Repression How longtime Russian political activists are often overlooked in the West feature Leonid Ragozin
Polarization Russia’s invisible children How one outreach forum for LGBT teens has been forced to adapt to growing pressure from politicians and the public dispatch Anna Yalovkina
Polarization In and out in ‘90s Russia An observer looks back on what’s changed, and what hasn’t, for gays in Russia feature David Tuller
Polarization Armenia’s ostracized minority A photographer challenges bias and hate in Yerevan feature Nazik Armeniakian
Polarization No room for humor How one journalist used satire to cover the 2013 Russian law against homosexual “propaganda” — and why he could not do it now dispatch Pavel Kanygin
Polarization Europe, Putin, and the ‘Gayropa’ Bait The Kremlin’s messaging on gay rights issues has little to do with beliefs introduction Peter Pomerantsev
