GLAAD Media Nominees Include Trio of Reports on LGBT Russia
Vice News, GQ and Epix among this year's honorees
Last year at this time, a number of magazine editors and TV producers were getting ready to share Sochi Winter Olympics-timed pieces examining the very difficult life for Russia’s LGBT residents. This week, three of those efforts have been nominated for 2014 GLAAD Media Awards.
The first, “Inside the Iron Closet: What It’s Like to Be Gay in Putin’s Russia,” appeared in the February issue of GQ. The Outstanding Magazine Article nominee, by Jeff Sharlet, chronicles a pair of weeks spent in the country in the fall of 2013:
I wanted to see what ordinary LGBT life was like in a nation whose leaders have decided that “homosexualism” is a threat to its “sexual sovereignty,” that “genderless tolerance,” in Putin’s words, is a disease of the West that Russia will cure.
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