This is Elena Klimova. She runs a support group for Russian LGBT teens online called Children-404, where she posts letters from young people about coming out and dealing with discrimination.
Klimova gets lots of hate mail for supporting LGBT teens. Yesterday, she posted some of it, with photos of her detractors, in an album called "Beautiful People And The Things They Say To Me" on the Russian social network VKontakte.
"You fucking animal, delete your fucking LGBT group."
Klimova juxtaposes the vicious, obscene insults with everyday photos from the writers' social media accounts. BuzzFeed News blurred their faces.
Hello, Lena. My fag brother [name redacted] (yes, so sharply) is one of your friends online, so I have a request for you, teach him not to show his faggish tendencies when he comes to family gatherings. There are adults around (elderly grandmothers) that are in shock from the first moment he speaks. He will never be accepted by anyone in our family as a fag, so he can sit and shut up if he likes to fuck in the ass.
"The most sophisticated verbiage is anonymous, so it's sad we do not see their beautiful faces," Klimova wrote.
What's this garbageWho are these fucking LGBT kids? Have they gone totally fucking crazy or what? What have you got that's 'not found'? Maybe a book on physics is 'not found' or what? Or maybe you are 'no ready' for the math test? Or, enough already, aside from how to fuck you don't fucking know how to do anything else? People what's going on? Explain it to me? Libidinous fucking perverts.
Klimova has been embroiled in legal battles under Russia's 2013 law against "propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations" to minors.
A court decision blocking the group on VKontakte is due to take effect April 25. These photos, posted to her personal page, would presumably not be affected by the order.
"As beautiful people write to me often, this album will be continually updated," Klimova wrote on her VKontakte page. "It was created for the enjoyment of contrasts and the diversity of life."
H/T Global Voices, where you can read more translations of the hate mail.
Klimova also uploaded some of the photos of her detractors to Facebook, which deleted the post. She posted additional photos to Facebook April 21. A Facebook spokesperson told BuzzFeed News the company's Community Standards "prevent anyone on Facebook from degrading or shaming another private individual.” Klimova's photo album "Beautiful People And The Things They Say to Me" still appears on VKontakte.