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This week on Outstanding Docs: I Am Brezhnev’s Queen

Film tells tale of gay persecution under the Soviets

By OUTtv • September 11, 2008 8:00 pm EDT

Check out this week’s documentary on OutTV.

Sun, Sep 14, 6pm EST:

I am Brezhnev’s Queen

Homosexuality was fiercely suppressed during the Soviet regime, this film tells that hidden tale. Read more at the film’s website.

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