Gay tolyatti, russia

TOLYATTI, Russia — The last two years have been brutal for Konstantin Golava, a year-old environmental activist and the only publicly out gay person in this gritty industrial city known for car factories, chemical plants, and nothing else. In early , as soon as Golava started disseminating news items related to LGBT issues through his social media accounts, rumors about his sexual.

Hardship for Gay and Lesbian Russians far from Moscow. This piece was also published by the Russian language BBC. Photographer Misha Friedman spent 10 days in Tolyatti and Samara, two cities miles south of Moscow in September , photographing the.