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Gay.Ru, a non-for-profit Moscow-based gay, lesbian and transgender group has existed since 1996. It started as a discussion group under the name Fido7.Ru.Sex.Gay in the amateur messaging network FIDO. This was the first ever forum where Russian-speaking gays could discuss their problems.

Our web-site features more than 15,000 articles and documents in Russian and 500 in English and updates daily. Gay.ru is visited by more than three million visitors yearly or over 30,000 hits a day, including weekends. We made Gay.Ru a place where our gay, lesbian, and questioning visitors can find such vitally important information as psychological aspects of coming out, coping with homophobia, safer-sex techniques; read life stories of fellow gays and lesbians and receive a response to their questions.

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GLBT Center "Together"

News on "About Us"

· 31/12/2008 Happy New Year, dear friends!
· 14/09/2008 Google Analytics: from the beginning of the year the unique audience Gay.Ru has close to 2 500 000 viewers
· 08/08/2007 Gay.Ru is the most quoted gay-site in Russia
· 06/02/2006 1,000,000 Banners: Russian Gay sites join together thanks to Gay.Ru

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· The history of Gay.Ru
Gay.Ru, a non-for-profit Moscow-based gay, lesbian and transgender group has existed since 1996. It started as a discussion group under the name Fido7.Ru.Sex.Gay in the amateur messaging network FIDO. This was the first ever forum where Russian-speaking gays could discuss their problems.

· More information about "Together"
Most of our initiatives are absolutely new for Russia. We are looking for NGOs all over the world with good experience in GLBT, social and AIDS-prevention projects similar to those that we are about to launch.

· Our partners
We’re in touch with various institutions around the world, which we are happy to thank here.

· KVIR, nationwide gay magazine
So we launched a brand new offline project that gives us access to the biggest part of the community...

· Project "A Healthy Gay Community"
The overwhelming majority of gay site visitors are looking in them for new acquaintances and sexual adventure, which confirms the need of establishing a popular resource on safe sex precisely in the Internet.

· Gay.Ru Team - Contact Us
We reside in Moscow and are open to contacts and cooperation

· Funding
We are a non-profit public organization trying to help Russian gays, lesbians & transsexuals overcome discrimination, become valuable and full members of society.

· All our projects
Did you know www.gay.ru is done by us? There are more to come! Read on!