9 objects that remind us of the importance of LGBTQ+ struggles
2. The letter of a young gay exile from Russia
In 2013 Vladimir Putin signed a law banning “gay propaganda among minors”. How to grow under such a regime? At 20, Andreï, unable to accept his sexual orientation in Moscow – where LGBTQI activists are regularly arrested during demonstrations and where the beating of homosexuals is a national sport – fled Russia to come to live in France. Before going into exile, like an act of faith, he sent himself this letter, in the Cyrillic alphabet, in which he made the promise to finally be himself.
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