More than 600 people were imprisoned in the BSSR for so-called "muzhelozhstvo" or sodomy from 1934, when the article was introduced into the criminal code, to 1994, when homosexual intercourse between two men was decriminalized in modern Belarus. The history of persecution remains heavily understudied: we have almost no data on lesbians and trans people, and sources on men usually reflect a prison discourse and perspective. Ula talks about medical institutions, prison conditions, and daily life, as depicted by a temporary immigrant from Latvia.

Texts, that this episode is based on:

- Alexander, Rustam. Red Closet: The Hidden History of Gay Oppression in the USSR.

- Alexander, Rustam. Regulating Homosexuality in Soviet Russia, 1956–91.

- Escoto, Rafael. The Shadows of Repression: Homosexuality, Identity, and the Lasting Legacy of the Soviet GULAG.

- Healey, Dan. Homosexual Desire in Revolutionary Russia: The Regulation of Sexual and Gender Dissent. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001.

- O’Dwyer, Conor. Coming Out of Communism: The Emergence of LGBT Activism in Eastern Europe. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018.

- Valodzin, Uladzimir. Queer History of Belarus in the Second Half of the 20th Century: A Preliminary Study. 2016.

- Vazyanau, Andrei. Queer and Ethnicity in Minsk, 1952: Belarusian Reading of Kaspars Irbe’s Diary.