A Right to be Gay Russia (клуб МАЯК)

Aug 1996 Until recently it was a crime to be gay in Russia. Today, gays can revel until dawn in nightclubs teeming with lipstick drag queens and male dancers clad in silver pants. As the bass reverberates around the room, two doctors arrive from St Petersburg s most respected clinic. Igor reveals, I feel free here, I can talk to other people, and at work I can t do Despite Yeltsin s reform, homosexuals live in fear of persecution. The communist concept of a superior Socialist man still engender