ORIGINS

Rules of conduct

Project GayRussia is Russia's leading Gay advocate group.

Our projects are funded by Russian private interests. We do not have any commercial activities. Our publications do not include neither porn material nor any material that could be considered illegal according to the law of the Russian Federation.

Origins of the project - Why this internet portal ?

Due to the lack of serious queer information in Russia, we decided in March 2005 to create a new internet portal for the LGBT community. 

Our purpose was to offer something different than what was done before. From the very beginning, we decided to ban commercial activities and to focus on gay rights and advocay. Project GayRussia was born.

From the discussions we had with European and American human rights Gay & Lesbian organizations, we understood that the knowledge of gay life in Russia from abroad, was very often biased due to an absence of accurate and efficient channel of informations.

Many English speaking sites about Russian LGBT, created at the end of the 90's were updated on an occasional basis. We decided to fill in this gap by creating specific English pages dedicated to the foreign community.

On May 17th, 2005 the site www.gayrussia.ru was launched on the internet simultaneously in Russian and English.

Since that time, visitors from all over the world have been visiting our site regularly, from Europe, America, Australia, Africa and even... Fidji Islands.

Latest : A new historical record was made with 10'538 connections registered on the site on May 27th, 2007.