Gay propaganda
Subtitle: Russian love stories
By: edited by Masha Gessen and Joseph Huff-Hannon ; foreword by Garry Kasparov = Propaganda gomoseksualizma v Rossi : istorii lyubvi / pod redakciej Mashi Gessen i Dzhozefa Haff-Hjennona ; predislovie Garri Kasparova
Contributors: Shaevich, Bela, translator; Borodin, Andrei, translator; Karelsky, Dmitri, translator; Solodovnik, Svetlana, translator
Published: 2014
Language: rus
Number of pages: 149
ISBN-13: 9781939293350
Subjects: Gays; Homosexuality; Gays' writings; Anecdotes; Social conditions; Gay couples; Biography
Other titles: Russian love stories; Propaganda gomoseksualizma v Rossi :; Istorii lyubvi
Notes: Parallel English and Russian texts bound back-to-back and inverted.

"All translations from Russian to English by Bela Shaevich; English-to-Russian translations by Andrei Borodin, Dmitry Karelsky, Svetlana Solodovnik."

Non-Latin script record
Table of contents: title: English language contents:; title: "And then they kidnapped my son for the first time"  -- Marina & Elena; title: "We're bound by a cable"  -- Denis; title: "We'd gone about our lives idiotically"  -- Olga & Irina; title: "I think we've killed our mothers"  -- Oleg Dusaev & Dmitriy Stepanov; title: "Our parents and even the Sochi city government know who we are and how we live"  -- Andrei Tanichev & Roman Kochagov; title: "And suddenly, bam, I want a beard"  -- Masha & Ruslan; title: "We haven't stopped holding hands when we walk down the street"  -- Volodya & Dima; title: "She's our child, deal with it"  -- Ksenia Meshcheryakova; title: "I've never slept with a woman, but family is another matter entirely"  -- Sergei; title: "I saw her and thought, therapy was successful!"  -- Olga & Maria; title: "The most difficult moment of the ceremony was giving a kiss"  -- Aleksandr Bergan & Ivan Samsonov; title: "This is my family, and you can't change families"  -- Elvina Yuvakaeva & Elena Nikitina; title: "My life turned into a Pedro Almodóvar movie"  -- Wes Hurley; title: "I had gray hair, but I felt like a 15-year-old boy"  -- Olgerta & Liza; title: "We're not lying, we're just not telling them everything"  -- Anton & Georgy; title: "The nurse looked around and realized that I was the father"  -- Alyona & Olga; title: "After we broke up, I felt the fear dissipate"  -- Olga Kurachyova; title: "I always ask her how her new girlfriend is, and aren't I better?"  -- Alla Gorick; title: "I dream one day I'll have a little apartment, someone to love, and people who come over and see us"  -- Gleb Latnik; title: "Neither of us wanted to part, not then, not later, and never again"  -- Alexander & Mikhail; title: "I had a career in Russia, a nice apartment, friends, family, I sacrificed all that to be with Ana"  -- Tatiana Ermakova; title: "I regret nothing"  -- Alexander Smirnov; title: "I've become embarrassed to tell people that I'm gay"  -- Ruslan Savolaynen; title: "My parents said, 'We're just going to make her disappear'"  -- Lena & Nastya; title: "In general, the way someone reacts to your coming out is a good filter"  -- Vitaly Matveev; title: "If I start worrying about the government, I'll end up having a third heart attack"  -- Natalia Ushakova; title: "Discussing my private life with a journalist seems insane"  -- Max & Sasha; title: "We want to be Mama Katya, Mama Nina, Papa, and lots of kids"  -- Nina & Katya; title: "Once we'd settled into our relationship, we decided to take up partner dancing" -- Anya & Nata.