LIBRARY LIVE: Queer Insider: How to Survive Putin’s Russia

Tompkins Square will host Lyosha Gorshkov, whose life story is featured in the new Masha Gessen’s book “The Future is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia,“ which recently has won the National Book Award.

Lyosha is going to share his personal story of surviving the Putin’ LGBT purges after the “propaganda of non-traditional values” law was passed.

Lyosha is going to share his personal story of surviving the Putin’ LGBT purges after the “propaganda of non-traditional values” law was passed.

Q&A to be followed.

Lyosha Gorshkov is Co-President at RUSA LGBT (Russian-Speaking American LGBTQ Association). He holds a PhD in Political Science (a former Political Science Professor at Perm State University in Russia). Lyosha’s field of research is Queer and Gender Studies. In July 2014, after being persecuted and physically threatened by Security Services, and Neo-Nazi groups for being an openly gay professor, and vocal advocate for LGBTIQ rights, he was forced to leave Russia. Lyosha was granted asylum in the U.S. in March 2017.

Masha Gessen, a Russian-American writer, journalist, a staff writer for New Yorker, activist and the recent winner of the National Book Award.

Free

Tompkins Square Library

New York, NY, 10009