Art as Response to Attacks on LGBT Rights in Russia on the Eve of the Sochi Olympics

The upcoming 2014 Winter Olympics and Paraolympics in Sochi, Russia, have shined a light on a host of environmental, migrant, labor and civil rights concerns in Russia. International observers and Russian organizations indicate that the situation for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people in Russia has recently deteriorated. An emergent "traditional values" ideology propagated by the state and church -- that falsely posits homosexuality as being anti-Russian, a Western import, and ...