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Crimean LGBT Community in Transition

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Russia's military annexation of the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine has already upended many lives...

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With Russia annexing Crimea earlier this year, life has changed in unwelcome ways for nearly everyone in the LGBT community. Some have left Crimea, while others are adjusting to the harsh new political and social realities of homophobic Russia. Photojournalist Misha Friedman has been documenting the plight of a community under siege.

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