When I saw this topic appear in my Twitter moments tab, and realized barley any big news sites were reporting on it I was shocked, and immediately wanted to find out more. It did not take long for me to realize this was a topic that I personally believed was to big to ignore. I was not aware this place (Chechnya) even existed, so research was at the start slightly difficult. As I started to investigate more in depth, I was both shocked and disgusted that this kind of thing was even happening in the world and that it was being widely ignored. The more I read, the more witnesses and sources began to show up for me to read and discover. The brutality and horrifying events and living conditions that gay men were facing and enduring in this land I just prior knew nothing about shocked me, and made me want to try and spread this news, even in the smallest ways (like through an English school paper project)