Table of Contents:
  • Russia's gay literature and history / Simon Karlinsky
  • Imitation of the Arabic / Alexander Pushkin
  • A Pushkin puzzle : essay / by Michael Green
  • Ode to the John ; To Tiesenhausen / Mikhail Lermontov
  • Nights at the villa / Nikolai Gogol
  • The Ivins (selections from Childhood) ; Pages from Tolstoy's Diaries / Leo Tolstoy
  • Khamid and Manoli / Konstantin Leontiev
  • Aunt Sonya's sofa ; Virginal Victor : a Byzantine tale ; A summer affair ; A story interrupted ; Three poems from Alexandrian songs / Mikhail Kuzmin
  • Mikhail Kuzmin : past and present ; Mikhail Kuzmin's diaries : a foretaste / by Michael Green
  • The petty demon (selections from the novel) / Fyodor Sologub
  • Two poems / Vyacheslav Ivanov
  • People of the moonlight (selections) / Vasily Rozanov
  • Two poems / Nikkolai Klyuev
  • Four poems / Sergei Esenin
  • Selections from Ivnev's Diaries ; Who will comprehend these feelings / Ryurik Ivnev
  • Ten poems / Anatoly Steiger
  • The third Rome (selections from the novel) / Georgy Ivanov
  • Three poems ; Three sonnets from Ariel ; Twelve sonnets from Ariel / Valery Pereleshin
  • The oven ; One boy's story : How I got like that ; Alyosha-Seryozha ; The leaflet / Yevgeny Kharitonov
  • Letter from prison ; Three poems from Tbilisi by candlelight ; Open letter to Literaturnaya gazeta / Gennady Trifonov
  • Letters to the editor of Tema and 1/10
  • Letters about prison life / V.K. and Nikolai Serov
  • The prisoner of the Caucasus / Vladimir Makanin
  • Around Dupont / Vassily Aksyonov
  • No offense in love / Yury Past
  • Slingshot / Nikolai Kolyada
  • Lays of the gay Slavs / Sergei Rybikov
  • Three poems / Dmitry Gubin
  • Two poems / Dmitry Kuz'min
  • Two ballets by George Balanchine (selections from the novella) / Gennady Trifonov
  • The bench / Efim Yeliseev
  • A sunny day at the seaside / Vitaly Yasinsky
  • The phone call / K.E.
  • The death of Misha Beautiful ; The army elegy / Yaroslav Mogutin
  • The night will burst with hail, and the rain ; Echoes of Harlequin (selections from the novel) / Dimitri Bushuev.