Volume 33, Number 6 · April 10, 1986
The Case of Gennady Trifonov
By Simon Karlinsky
Gennady Trifonov, the Soviet Union's only openly homosexual poet, is in trouble with the KGB again. By now, he has been harassed by that organization for almost two decades. When he was doing his military service at the age of twenty, the KGB learned that he was a homosexual. Their ceaseless efforts to force Trifonov to report on other homosexual soldiers drove him to attempt suicide. After that he was left alone for a few years.
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