Queer in Russia: A Story of Sex, Self, and the Other - Laurie Essig - Google Books

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In Queer in Russia Laurie Essig examines the formation of gay identity and community in the former Soviet Union. As a sociological fieldworker, she began her research during the late 1980s, before any kind of a public queer identity existed in that…