Friday, August 2, 2013

Prof. Brenda Cossman, director of the Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies at the University of Toronto, was featured in this U of T news story by writer Brianna Goldberg about media attention on Russia’s anti-gay laws, the growing violence against gays in that country, and the impact on the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, as the countdown to the games begins.

In her interview, Cossman says the West should ask the LGBT communities in Russia how best to protest—and that it will take a lot more than a boycott of Russian vodka.

Read Prof. Cossman's six ideas here.