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All our projects

Welcome to our projects catalog and thank you for your interest! Don't hesitate to contact us - your feedback is important, because all we do is done by and for people.

Our Initiative group has been working on GLBT issues for 7 years and consists of 15 employees and 30 volunteers with expertise in different areas including art, psychology, literature, sex life, project management...

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

According to Dr. Pokrovsky, the main expert on HIV in Russia, HIV prevalence in the Russian gay community has increased several times during the last year. That's why we believe it is very important to take decisive steps and to develop a successful prevention strategy.

Upcoming activities

Our most important project for the years to come includes several activities:

  • counseling for gays and lesbians 
    Starting from the everyday hotline with trained volunteers as an operators to the counseling enter 

  • GLBT Community Center
    The Center will allow gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transsexuals to use a specialized library, internet café, dropping-zone. We plan to move all our social services there by that time.

  • regional network-building
    Due to the lack of gay community life and GLBT organizations, the quality of life among the lesbigay community throughout Russia is not even close to that in Moscow. We are going to provide local representatives with proved techniques and help to raise activism, hold local events.

Running projects

  • "KVIR", national monthly gay periodical
    is intended to decrease external and internalized homophobia,
    to lower the level of high-risk sexual behavior.
    Close to Out! magazine but in a business-weekly format.
    more information...       magazine website (rus)

  • "Pink", national monthly lesbian periodical
    creates an information interspace between girls, talking about health and leisure, work and culture. In the virtual vacuum of lesbian periodicals it has an even greater value of uniting the nation.

  • telephone hotline for MSM
    this free service is the first hotline for gays and bisexuals in Russia. It is operated by volunteers at (495) 783-8333 from 14h to 22h workdays and 15h to 19h on weekends and provides psychosocial support and counseling.

  • self-help groups for gays functioning on the weekly basis (since April 2002).

  • the Gay.ru website  
    the biggest, most thorough gay online resource in Russia.
    daily updates (since 1996).

  • the Lesbi.ru website
    a large collection of lesbian resources concerning lifestyle, health, art and politics, as well as daily news.

The monthly gay publication objects to:

  • inform and develop the gay community in Russia (no gay community life at the moment)

  • raise self-acceptance level among gays (according to surveys, it is in inverse relation with the level of high-risk sexual behavior)

  • provide an opportunity to communicate about sex as equals (important for youth)

  • resolve psychological problems (mental health is an essential component of health in general)

  • encourage safe sex (gays tend to be more vulnerable to suicide and substance abuse than straights; suicidal tendencies may result in unprotected sex)

  • fight social discrimination and stigmatization

  • beat low level of social adaptation

more information...

self-help groups for gays, the only ones in Russia, are free-of-charge events open for every gay, bisexual, lesbian or unsure under the hatches. It is operated by peer-to-peeer base to provide real help when needed. The attendance is up to 15 persons per group.

The Gay.ru website is the largest and most comprehensive gay online resource in Russia and a major project of our Center. To date, the site has been visited more than 14,000,000 times and has 50,000 visitors daily.

more information...

Want to offer sponsorship?

  • we always try to find the way to implement projects on our own (or in cooperation with other organizations), but funding is always an issue

  • with your help we'll be able to do it better, faster and more effective

  • we appreciate any help from donations and sponsorship to organizational recommendations. Your suggestions are important!

Our expertise

In the past years the Center has successfully fulfilled the following projects:

  • staged a show on safe gay sex, performed in all Moscow gay clubs. Professional actors, singers, poet, choreographer and other staff were participating in it. The show was so successful that we were able to play it again 6 months later;

  • organized a lesbigay film festival.
    During 2 months, gay and lesbian films were played in Moscow’s largest gay club. At least one film per week was HIV/AIDS-related.

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Censorship in Russia: Gay.Ru has been added to Russia's centralized internet blacklist 31 Mar. 2018 Google in Russia promotes isolation of homosexuals by banning gay websites 16 Aug. 2013 Happy New Year, dear friends! 31 Dec. 2008 Google Analytics: from the beginning of the year the unique audience Gay.Ru has close to 2 500 000 viewers 14 Sep. 2008 Gay.Ru is the most quoted gay-site in Russia 8 Aug. 2007 1,000,000 Banners: Russian Gay sites join together thanks to Gay.Ru 6 Feb. 2006
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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.
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