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CHECHNYA’S GAY RESISTANCE

ilmmaker David France (above) first read about the horrific anti-LGBTQ purge in Chechnya in early April 2017. At the time, reports were surfacing daily about missions sanctioned by President Ramzan Kadyrov to abduct, imprison, torture, and in some cases kill innocent LGBTQ people. But in a matter of months, they seemed to vanish from

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