What Does Masha Gessen Mean to Pride? with Masha Gessen

Masha Gessen is a Russian-American journalist, author, and activist, who joins Jonathan to shed light on the treatment of LGBTA in Russia. They discuss the strict anti-LGBTQA legislation that’s been passed, its impact on the day to day life of LGBTQA Russians, organizations to support that help support Russian queer community, and more. You can find more at Follow Masha on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/mashagessen Support Rusa LGBT here: https://rusalgbt.com/ For more music from Quiñ head to TheQuinCat.com. Jonathan is on Instagram @JVN. Also Twitter and Facebook. Catch Jonathan on Queer Eye streaming now on Netflix. This episode is sponsored by Book of the Month (www.bookofthemonth.com code: JVN), Okta: You Podcast, Everlane (www.everlane.com/jvn), and Robinhood (www.CURIOUS.robinhood.com).

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