The Blue issue.

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Not everything blue is sad, and not everything that is blue is sad. Hardly every sad person considers himself gay, and vice versa. Moreover, not everything blue is gay and not everything sad causes sadness. Not everything permanent is truly permanent and everyone isn't really so different from everyone else. And this issue ended up being not as blue as is written on the cover.

About the Meaning of Life and All
Alla Gugel
Vlad Mamishev-Monroe, the human-art-object who reenacted all the most noted figures of history and mythology from Jesus, Buddha, and Dracula, to Shtirlitz and Marilyn Monroe, tells of his consequential sexual orientation with tiredness, frowning at any definition or sexual distinction. Most important however, is the sincerity of the painter - real emotions exist regardless of the colour of love.

The last escape route
Sophie Engstrom
One day, more then 10 years ago, Ingvor Blom came home and found her dead boyfriend. He had committed suicide. They were both a couple in the middle of their life, with promising careers and economical situation. They had just bought a new house close to the sea. But as a flash from a clear blue sky her boyfriend committed suicide.

Bluescapes

Power over homosexuality
Andre Andreev
In Russia before the 17th century, homosexual relationships were not punished - they existed as a socially unchallenged phenomenon. However, the building of the centralized government forced rulers to create laws against 'otherness'. Only thus can the vertical line of power exist: by forbidding, it controls everybody. This is its inhuman way to receive higher ratings.

8=o
Trilla
Thematic collection of urban notes by the artist Trilla picked up in London, Paris, Düsseldorf, Venice, Florence, Milan, Moscow and Tokyo. In the planes, trains, bicycles and on the streets.

True blue
Barry Jenkins
Is homosexuality embodied more in a physical act or in one's opinion of their sexual self? Judging by Van Sant's decisions - it would seem unwise for a homosexual director to posit a film with so vicious a crime on the dogged notion of latent homosexuality manifesting itself through violence.

The Gay-Guide, Moscow
Mari Sirosh
If you are gay, you will possibly learn something new about your favorite establishments, and if you are straight, you may start suspiciously looking around some of your best-known places. And so, let us begin.