Masha Gessen

Masha Gessen

Рождение : 1967-01-13, Moscow, Russia

История

Masha Gessen is a Russian-American journalist, author, translator and activist who has been an outspoken critic of the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, and the President of the United States, Donald Trump. Gessen is nonbinary and trans and uses they/them pronouns. Gessen has written extensively on LGBT rights.

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Masha Gessen

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