Author: Olga Andreevskikh, Tampere University, Finland In contemporary Russia, where state-imposed ‘traditional sexuality’ legislation co-exists with the continuously strengthening LGBTQ-rights movement, with prolific media discourses on LGBTQ themes, as well as with a rich and diverse queer cultural scene, identity-based categories belonging to the western discourses of ‘coming-out’ (e.g. gay, lesbian, bisexual, and so on) … Continue reading russian queer (counter-)revolution? the appropriation of western queer discourses by russian lgbt communities: a media case study