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Lesbian ("Naughty Girls") - a section about lesbians for lesbians. I don't like the word "lesbian". It has some medical and communist flavor, even stench. In Russia nothing will make it decent, neither latinisms, nor picturesque foamy waves of the Aegean Sea. Lesbian means deviation, period. Let us be just the best naughty girls.

I don't want to be an expert. We are all very different, and you are welcome to join me here on this page. I look forward to receiving your letters, stories, pictures, etc.

Good luck to all of us!

Eugenia Debryanskaya,
Russian lesbian activist. Photo by Ed Mishin, 1998

News on "Lesbian"

· 03/08/2010 The 30th Edition of the Russian Lesbian Newspaper “Pinx” – 5 Years of Publication
· 03/08/2010 Lesbian prose 2010 collection has united creativity of 12 writers
· 02/07/2010 "Labris" turns into "Labyrinth" on Moscow streets
· 16/06/2010 Rainfall and Mosquitoes Did Not Stop Participants Of 7th Women's Gathering In Island Of Love
· 14/06/2010 Ukrainian women's camp "Feminist Lesbian Point-2010" is taking place in July-August
· 09/06/2010 Theatre, Poems, Songs, Torches are Program of 7th Women's Island Gathering
· 07/01/2010 Petersburg beats Moscow in lesbian entertainment
· 03/10/2009 Saint-Petersburg's Int'l Queer Culture Festival was a Success!
· 23/09/2009 Russian Dykes on Bikes Hold Street Racing in Saint Petersburg
· 13/07/2009 "3dance" lesbi dance school celebrates its first anniversary

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· It is natural to dance
More and more people go to pair dance studios to learn skills of tango, salsa, hustle dances. Very often this move totally changes their lives. But where to go to learn dancing for two ladies? Well, Moscow has a place to go – it is “3dance studio” - the first dance school for special girls, as we are. Its organizers – Las and Dem tell to the “Pinx” paper how they have managed it.

· "My Happy Family". Documentary
"My Happy Family" is a documentary examining challenges of lesbian motherhood in Russia. The film focuses on the first stage of parenthood - family planning - along with the decision making process of giving birth to a child in a same-sex family, and a consideration of the options available to lesbian couples in Russia.

· Life Line
I've never wanted her to be better or worse. I feel that she also accepts me as I am. She never tried to change me or render different in this or that. I was free of the necessity to pretend. I discovered that I could just be…

· To Be a Lesbian in Ukraine
My ideal of a dyke is as follows: smart, pretty, moderately feminine (boyish in a cute way which just adds to her charm), stylish (in a broad sense – having found her own style on life's catwalk), independent and free-spirited, romantic and mild, generous and exalted, understanding and hip to diverse phenomena of modern life.

· Low Awareness Shelters Russia's Lesbian Moms
Overall, society's ignorance has been a blessing for Irina, a 41-year-old lesbian mother of two. Several years ago, the English-language teacher left her second husband and set up house in Moscow with her female lover and her two teenage daughters.

· Gays Gather Quietly, Out of Political Spotlight
The founder and keeper of the Gay and Lesbian Archives is a middle-aged teacher who asked that she be referred to in this article by her English-language initials, H.G., as she fears being fired.