A quiet queer tour of Moscow?
NewsThe independent Moscow Times reports that individual activists are staging informal gay tours of Moscow and St Petersburg.
Renat Davletgildeev, a journalist and the author of the Telegram channel Gay and Dynamite, became the guide for a tour of Moscow. “After the repeal of the sodomy law in 1992, gay clubs opened, and queer people from all over the world came to Russia. It is important not to forget about those years, and projects like this can help. Personally, this project gave me the strength to live on, the right to continue to identify myself gay, to hold up the flag of LGBTQ+ society and carry it proudly,” he told The Moscow Times.
In Soviet times they used to boast to visiting Westerners, we don’t have such people here, forgetting Tchaikovsky and the rest…
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