For Putin, transgender people like Jan Dworkin are an invention of the corrupt West, pure satanism. But he can use them for one thing: as an enemy image.
Back then, activists could still take to the streets for their rights, May 2013 in St. Petersburg.
Photo: AP
Jan Dworkin came to the café earlier than agreed and sat in the corner. You can see him immediately, with his cobalt blue dreadlocks and tattooed arms. He closes the laptop with the rainbow sticker. “Human” is written on it, human. But being human in Russia is rather difficult right now.