MASHA GESSEN is an award-winning journalist and author of many books, most recently Words Will Break Cement: The Passion of Pussy Riot (Riverhead, January 2014). She is a lesbian mother who has left Russia because of the anti-gay laws.
JOSEPH HUFF-HANNON is a celebrated campaigner and writer who has been published in The New York Times, The Guardian, Salon, and elsewhere. He works with the international advocacy group Avaaz.org. He is one of the founding campaigners of global LGBT rights group, All Out.