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Queer in Russia: a Story of Sex, Self, and the Other by Laurie Essig cookbook Queer in Russia fills aIn Queer in Russia Laurie Essig examines the formation of gay identity and community in the former Soviet Union. As a sociological fieldworker, she began her research during the late 1980s, before any kind of a public queer identity existed in that country. After a decade of conducting interviews, as well as observing and analysing plays, books, pop music, and graffiti, Essig presents the first sustained study of how and why there was no Soviet gay