The Queer Cubans Seeking Refuge in Putin’s Russia
For the protagonists of a new documentary, even lonely, snowy Moscow on the eve of war is preferable to life on their native island.
This article is adapted from AQ's special report on cybersecurity For the protagonists of Luis Alejandro Yero’s Calls from Moscow, the Russian capital was a place of intense silence and isolation on the eve of the invasion of Ukraine: almost a ghost town. “Here nothing happens,” says one of the four Cubans, recently exiled queer men, who form the focus of this bold first feature film, shot just weeks before the start of the war. Undocumented, unable to speak Russian and facing the brunt of the Kremlin’s anti-LGBTQ laws, the men’s decision to abandon their homes lays bare...
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