Some paintings accompanying an excerpt from Masha Gessen and Joseph Huff-Hanon’s moving book “Gay Propaganda” on @evergreenreview Link in bio to read Posted @withregram • @evergreenreview “My parents told me to end it. I said, I can’t, I don’t want to, I love her, we’ve been together for a long time. They said, in that case we’re going to have to do something about her. My parents are very wealthy people. And they said, ‘We’re just going to make her disappear.’ ...The state politics have given my parents a second wind. My mother called and said, ‘They’re going to start sending your kind to jail soon. You’re going to end up in jail.’ I said, ‘Oh, goody, no one but women around.’ She screamed and hung up.” Read an excerpt from “Gay Propaganda,” the 2014 book edited by Masha Gessen (@mashagessen) & Joseph Huff-Hannon, which collects personal accounts of LGBTQ+ life in Russia in response to laws criminalizing public discussions of homosexuality & banning LGBTQ+ couples from adopting children. Art by Elizabeth Glaessner (@eglaessn). Link in bio.