Queer in Russia: a Story of Sex, Self, and the Other by Laurie Essig cookbook literature

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Shaun Walker provides new insight into contemporary Russia and its search for a new identity

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Queer in Russia: a Story of Sex, Self, and the Other by Laurie Essig cookbook literatureIn 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 country. After a decade of conducting interviews, as well as observing and analysing plays, books, pop music, and graffiti, Essig presents the first sustained study of how and why there was no Soviet gay