On 4 December this year, Putin signed a new law that effectively banned all LGBTQ+ media for Russian citizens of all ages, with libraries and bookshops reportedly already pulling queer books from their shelves.As a result, Pyotr Voskresensky, the founder of what is thought to be Russia’s only LGBTQ+ history museum, has said he has had to close his exhibit, held at his St Petersburg flat, due to the archaic law.He told Reuters: “Closing the museum is a personal tragedy, but not only [that]: this is the tragedy of my people and my homeland.”Voskresensky, 37, is a doctor and LGBTQ+ rights activist, who opened the temporary exhibit on 27 November.It aimed to explore the lives of LGBTQ+ figures in Russia, including the composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky, who historians widely agree was gay.“The fact we can look into our history now gives us some hope that if we have a past, we will have a future.”Igor Kochetkov of the Russian LGBT Network told The Guardian that it’s “hard to know how [the expanded LGBTQ+ propaganda bill] will affect the community”."