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
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
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
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
A violent struggle over national identity Kyrgyzstan’s beacon of tolerance under threat from manufactured Kremlin homophobia dispatch Andrew North
Young, Russian, Gay, and Pro-Putin Why do many Russian LGBTQ members support Putin’s presidency? dispatch Francesca Ebel
Forgotten revolutionaries Ukraine’s LGBT community depends on the West to defend their rights dispatch Ian Bateson
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
The primetime bombshell What happened when a Russian celebrity revealed his HIV positive status on live TV dispatch Anna Nemtsova
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
Politics and Repression How longtime Russian political activists are often overlooked in the West feature Leonid Ragozin
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
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
