East-West Divide Kiev’s equality march passes peacefully Opposition from foreign and domestic forces arrayed against LGBTQ rights failed to disrupt an annual march in Kiev, bolstering Ukraine’s halting efforts to align with the West dispatch Ian Bateson
East-West Divide Murder after the Revolution Since Ukraine’s 2014 revolution, the number of killings of gay men has exploded. How Ukraine responds will help determine the country’s political trajectory—as a part of Europe or spinning toward Russia feature David Stern
Orthodox Church Unholy alliance For a decade, the Russian Orthodox Church has countenanced thuggish anti-LGBTQ groups. When Russians mobilized to protect public parks from new church construction, this partnership went to work to label green space a nefarious gay cause dispatch Evgeniy Shapovalov
Kremlin Influence A “family” gathering commemorates an anti-gay riot An anti-LGBTQ conference provides ecumenical and political unity among American, Georgian and Russian members of the religious right dispatch Giorgi Lomsadze
Kremlin Influence A violent struggle over national identity Kyrgyzstan’s beacon of tolerance under threat from manufactured Kremlin homophobia dispatch Andrew North
Kremlin Influence Young, Russian, Gay, and Pro-Putin Why do many Russian LGBTQ members support Putin’s presidency? dispatch Francesca Ebel
Rights abuses Clubbing and surviving in Samara Life in Russia’s most homophobic city dispatch Amy Mackinnon
East-West Divide Forgotten revolutionaries Ukraine’s LGBT community depends on the West to defend their rights dispatch Ian Bateson
East-West Divide 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
Information War The primetime bombshell What happened when a Russian celebrity revealed his HIV positive status on live TV dispatch Anna Nemtsova
Kremlin Influence 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
East-West Divide Politics and Repression How longtime Russian political activists are often overlooked in the West feature Leonid Ragozin
Rights abuses 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
