Guide to the Russian Lesbian, Gay, And AIDS-related Publications And Ephemera,
1992-1997

Collection Number: 7694

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library

Contact Information:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
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Compiled by:
Andrea Hektor
Date completed:
August 2003
EAD encoding:
Andrea Hektor, August 2003

© 2003 Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library

DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Russian lesbian, gay, and AIDS-related publications and ephemera, 1992-1997.
Collection Number:
7694
Quantity:
1 c.f. plus 1 oversize folder
Collector:
Kevin Lamb
Forms of Material:
Printed materials.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Abstract:
Material collected in Moscow and St. Petersburg, Russia, during the 1996-97 academic year, while Lamb worked for Aesop, a Moscow AIDS prevention organiation, running their gay and bisexual men's outreach program. Some material was purchased at bookstores and erotic boutiques, and some was picked up in bars and clubs.
Language:
Collection material in Russian, and English

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Material collected in Moscow and St. Petersburg, Russia, during the 1996-97 academic year, while Lamb worked for Aesop, a Moscow AIDS prevention organiation, running their gay and bisexual men's outreach program. Some material was purchased at bookstores and erotic boutiques, and some was picked up in bars and clubs.
Included are 14 books of poetry and fiction with gay themes either written in or translated into Russian, including the first Russian translation of James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room. These are cataloged separately.
SUBJECTS

Names:
Lamb, Kevin.
INFORMATION FOR USERS

Cite As:
Russian lesbian, gay, and AIDS-related publications and ephemera, #7694. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
Processing Information
Approximate English translations of Russian titles have been provided.
RELATED MATERIALS

Collecting Program: Human Sexuality Collection.
CONTAINER LIST

Description
Container
Homosexuality- General, 1991-1997
Box 1 Folder 1
Foreign Press- Russian Gay Life, 1990, 1992-1998
Box 1 Folder 2
Gay culture/literature/language, 1993-1995
Box 1 Folder 3
Transexuality- Queer "other", 1991-1994, 1996
Box 1 Folder 4
HIV/AIDS in Russia, 1987, 1990's
Box 1 Folder 5
Ephemera: Club brochures, invitations, promos, etc., 1990-1994
Box 1 Folder 6
Gay + Lesbian film festival
 Box 1 Folder 7
Index on censorship- "Gay's the Word in Moscow"
 Box 1 Folder 8
V. Kozlovskii- "The Argot of Russian Homosexual Sebculture"
 Box 1 Folder 9
A. Shchuplov- "Slang Scoop"
 Box 1 Folder 10
Moscow Lesbian Periodical no. 4
 Box 1 Folder 11
The Triangle Center
 Box 1 Folder 12
The Names Fund, info plus
 Box 1 Folder 13
AIDS Information Connection
 Box 1 Folder 14
Aesop
 Box 1 Folder 15
Gender Doc, The Mirror
 Box 1 Folder 16
10 to 1 (amateur journal)
Box 1 Folder 17
Awakening
 Box 1 Folder 18
Tema (complete set)
Box 1 Folder 19
Tema International
 Box 1 Folder 20
1/10 #2-14
Box 1 Folder 21
1/10 #15-22
Box 1 Folder 22
Argot (illustrated)
Box 1 Folder 23
Dimka (erotic magazine)
Box 1 Folder 24
Risk (to dissent)
 Box 1 Folder 25
Risk (literary)
 Box 1 Folder 26
You (illustrated)
Box 1 Folder 27
Uranus (erotic magazine)
Box 1 Folder 28
Little Partner, ed. by Misha Anikeev
Box 1 Folder 29
AIDS, Sex, Health- St. Petersburg AIDS organization
 Box 1 Folder 30
St. Petersburg literary/erotic periodical- Erotica in Russian Literature from Barkov to the Present
Box 1 Folder 31
Impulse, 1993
Box 1 Folder 32
Gay Glory!, Gay literary journal in St. Petersburg, 1993-1994
Box 1 Folder 33
Little Man (illustrated)
Box 1 Folder 34
My Journal for the Few 1995
Box 1 Folder 35
All Colors of the Rainbow- subscription acquaintance service
 Box 1 Folder 36
Chance (gay newspaper), 1992
Box 1 Folder 37
Gay Dialog, Dialog Plus, 1994-1996
Box 1 Folder 38
Queer Imaginings: The Unauthorized Reign of Russia's Queeniest of Queens, by K. Lamb, 1998
Box 1
Posters
"I Have AIDS, Hug Me, I'm Not Infectious"
 Mapcase **
ad for the AIDS Hotline for Kids, Tiburon, California, 1987
HIV/AIDS information poster, Moscow, n.d.
Mapcase **
Poster for a Queen concert in Moscow, [1991?]
Mapcase **