Exhibit runs September 3 – October 18, 2019. Exhibit hours are Monday–Friday, 9:30AM – 5:00PM excluding university holidays. Please join us for an opening reception on Wednesday, September 4 at 6:00pm. The Harriman Institute is pleased to present the exhibit Moscow: Gay Cruising Sites of the Soviet Capital, 1920-1980s featuring a series of works photographed in 2008 by artist Yevgeniy Fiks. "What is the attitude of bourgeois society to homosexuals? Even if we take into account the differences existing on this score in the legislation of various countries, can we speak of a specifically bourgeois attitude to this question? Yes, we can. Independently of these laws, capitalism is against homosexuality by virtue of its entire class-based tendency. This tendency can be observed throughout the course of history, but it is manifested with especial force now, during the period of capitalism’s general crisis." — from a 1934 letter to Stalin from Harry Whyte, a British communist living in Moscow Moscow documents gay cruising sites in Soviet Moscow, [...]

Exhibit runs September 3 – October 18, 2019. Exhibit hours are Monday–Friday, 9:30AM – 5:00PM excluding university holidays. Please join us for an opening reception on Wednesday, September 4 at 6:00pm. The Harriman Institute is pleased to present the exhibit Moscow: Gay Cruising Sites of the Soviet Capital, 1920-1980s featuring a series of works photographed in 2008 by artist Yevgeniy Fiks. "What is the attitude of bourgeois society to homosexuals? Even if we take into account the differences existing on this score in the legislation of various countries, can we speak of a specifically bourgeois attitude to this question? Yes, we can. Independently of these laws, capitalism is against homosexuality by virtue of its entire class-based tendency. This tendency can be observed throughout the course of history, but it is manifested with especial force now, during the period of capitalism’s general crisis." — from a 1934 letter to Stalin from Harry Whyte, a British communist living in Moscow Moscow documents gay cruising sites in Soviet Moscow, [...]

Exhibit runs September 3 – October 18, 2019. Exhibit hours are Monday–Friday, 9:30AM – 5:00PM excluding university holidays. Please join us for an opening reception on Wednesday, September 4 at 6:00pm. The Harriman Institute is pleased to present the exhibit Moscow: Gay Cruising Sites of the Soviet Capital, 1920-1980s featuring a series of works photographed in 2008 by artist Yevgeniy Fiks. "What is the attitude of bourgeois society to homosexuals? Even if we take into account the differences existing on this score in the legislation of various countries, can we speak of a specifically bourgeois attitude to this question? Yes, we can. Independently of these laws, capitalism is against homosexuality by virtue of its entire class-based tendency. This tendency can be observed throughout the course of history, but it is manifested with especial force now, during the period of capitalism’s general crisis." — from a 1934 letter to Stalin from Harry Whyte, a British communist living in Moscow Moscow documents gay cruising sites in Soviet Moscow, [...]

Exhibit runs September 3 – October 18, 2019. Exhibit hours are Monday–Friday, 9:30AM – 5:00PM excluding university holidays. Please join us for an opening reception on Wednesday, September 4 at 6:00pm. The Harriman Institute is pleased to present the exhibit Moscow: Gay Cruising Sites of the Soviet Capital, 1920-1980s featuring a series of works photographed in 2008 by artist Yevgeniy Fiks. "What is the attitude of bourgeois society to homosexuals? Even if we take into account the differences existing on this score in the legislation of various countries, can we speak of a specifically bourgeois attitude to this question? Yes, we can. Independently of these laws, capitalism is against homosexuality by virtue of its entire class-based tendency. This tendency can be observed throughout the course of history, but it is manifested with especial force now, during the period of capitalism’s general crisis." — from a 1934 letter to Stalin from Harry Whyte, a British communist living in Moscow Moscow documents gay cruising sites in Soviet Moscow, [...]