In the tradition of the Soviet samizdat (self-publication) and in defiance of Russia’s ban on “gay propaganda,” a collection of love stories by LGBT Russian writers, titled “Gay Propaganda”, was released Thursday.

The book, edited by journalist and author Masha Gessen and writer Joseph Huff-Hannon, “will be distributed within Russia via underground activist networks,” publishers OR Books said in a press release Thursday.

Read the full article at The Moscow Times.