Maksim, Dmitrii, Max and Ivan are part of a growing Russian-speaking LGBTQ+ community fleeing Russia for refuge in L.A.
hail from the former countries of the Soviet Union. She has seen an increase in the number of calls from Russian-speaking immigrants seeking legal and other assistance available to the LGBTQ+ population.
“I was constantly afraid for my life,” he said. “You are in the shower with other guys and you’re terrified that you would look at someone the wrong way. They would just kill and bury me in the woods.” “I met a soldier who, for the first time in his life, experienced a panic attack — and he shares with me that his friend was blown up by a mine,” Maksim said. “He went to the funeral and couldn’t sleep for days.”
At the Casa de Luz shelter in Tijuana, Maksim and Dimitrii made friends with two other immigrants fleeing Russia, Max, 23, a trans man born in St. Petersburg who left Russia after his parents threatened to sue his therapist who backed him in receiving hormone therapy; and Ivan, 18, who is gay, half Russian and half Ukraine, and “didn’t want to kill people.”
“I look forward to my green card, and Maksim is looking forward to his engagement ring,” Dmitrii said, laughing. Max, who shared a room with Dmitrii and Maksim at Auntie Mele’s House before they moved out, has been on hormone therapy for three months. After Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Max’s life in Russia turned into a nightmare.
Ivan shares a room with Max on the second floor at Auntie Mele’s House. The two beds recently vacated by Maksim and Dmitrii are soon going to be occupied by two more Russian immigrants who are expected from Tijuana in the coming days.
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