King Kong Magazine released The Trade a work photographed by Florian Joahn featuring the struggle for acceptance in post-Soviet Russia, styled by Edem Doussou.

The magazine explains:

Somehow, some of us don’t believe that love means the same thing to all of us. That what some call love is merely perversion masquerading as love. But it’s always the same love, no matter what gender identification or sexual orientation. Over the past few years, the conversation surrounding gender and sexuality has become more accessible thanks to digital forums and, as a result, these subjects have filtered into mainstream culture and opened up a wider conversation.

Stars by Luca Heintz from Success Models and Mr Kiki -the bodybuilder it is a juxtaposition between homophobia and love, explaining visually correct to Russia first world country that does not accept homosexuality.

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