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How The Father Of Soviet Pornography Became A Crusader Against “Gay Propaganda”
In 1990, a new Latvian publication called MORE, which billed itself as “an independent erotic newspaper,” published its first issue with a strong endorsement of LGBT rights on its front page. Latvia was in the process of breaking free from the Soviet Union, and the article made the case for repealing the Baltic republic’s Soviet-era law criminalizing homosexuality, known as Article 124, as part of “Latvia’s path to Europe.”
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