The case for treating queer persecution as a crime against humanity in The New York Times:

Oleksii Polukhin’s 64 days in detention began when Russian soldiers stopped him at a checkpoint. They found that he’d been gathering information about Russian military positions to share with Ukrainian forces; they also discovered he was gay.

One of the guards called him an anti-gay slur and forcing him to strip naked on the street. 

Read the full essay here.