The Antigay Movement Growing Abroad

The Leonard Lopate Show | Feb 21, 2017

Journalist Masha Gessen joins us to discuss her recent piece for Harper's called, “Family Values: Mapping the Spread of Antigay Ideology,” which looks at the spread of the antigay movement in Russia and Eastern Europe, and what it means for the United States today. Gessen traveled to Tbilisi, Georgia to attend the annual summit of the World Congress of Families, an organization that opposes gay marriage and access to abortion. 

 

 

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