Subject: Queers in the ex-USSR
From: McKay Russo <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 92 17:17:25 MESZ

>From Information Bulletin SMOT
(december, january, feburary : 1991-1992)
n:6     ISSN: 1162-3454

                SEXUAL MINORITIES
        To answer many Western readers' questions about
the situation of sexual minorities in the Ex-USSR, I would
like to indicate that it is relatively difficult even to 
raise that question within the workers' movement, since
the majority of workers are relatively conservative on this
point (they would often agree with the actions of the
Soviet Government in the 1930-1940s, and of Germany in the
years 1933-1945).

        In Russian Law, just as before, there is an article
of the Criminal Codex which punishes voluntary homosexual
contacts (with prison sentances of up to 5 years, or 8 years
in special cases), but only for men.  Women cannot be pros- 
ecuted in Russia for having homosexual relations.

        Addresses for more information:

-the Group for Psychological Aid to Sexual Minorities
Moscow
Ul. Malomoskovskaya, 4
'Medecine and Reproduction'
N.Oleynikov

-the Organizing Committee of the Moscow Union of
Homosexuals,
Moscow 109180 J-180
Box 11
Editors of the newspaper 'Tema'

-the Organizing Committee of the Russian Organisation
for Lesbian Rights, tel. +7-095-177-2428 (Sveta), 
+7-095-153-90-35 (Genia)

-the Organizing Committee of the 'AGRO' Association 
Moscow 129224
Box 157
Editors of the magazine 'Risk'

-the Organising Committee of the 'Nevskaya Parspectiva'
Association,
Saint-Petersburg 191186 D-186
Box 108

-the Editors of the 'Sibirsky Variant' newspaper,
Barnaul 656054
Box 783

-the Organising Committee of the Association for Equal
Rights to Sexual Minorities
Latvia, Riga 226001
Box 460

        The homosexual population represents only 0.07 % in
the working class, and has no socio-political influence upon
the workers' movement.

________________________________________________________
SMOT stands for "Free interprofessional Workers union"
a Free Trade Union in the USSR, founded in 1978 in Moscow.
Their contact address is:
Alexandre Tchoukaev  
145 rue Amelot
75011 Paris France

I think their bulletin can be ordered in the U.S. from the
Workers Solidarity Alliance
339 Lafayette St., room 202
New York, NY 10012