RUSA LGBTQ+ is a network for Russian-speaking LGBTQ individuals, friends, and supporters, funded and based in New York City. We have welcomed many LGBT asylum seekers from Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus who fled the abuse and mistreatment in their homelands. RUSA LGBT regularly organizes cultural and social events to unite Russian-speaking LGBTQ community in America and to increase acceptance and inclusion of LGBTQ people within the Russian-speaking public. We advocate social justice, human and civil rights for LGBTQ people in America and in the Former Soviet Union.