RUSA lgbtq+ is a US-based network of Russian-speaking lgbtq+Q immigrants, their friends, allies, and loved ones. Formed in 2008, RUSA lgbtq+ has welcomed many lgbtq+Q immigrants, asylums and asylum seekers from Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Turkmenistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan and other countries of the former Soviet Union. RUSA lgbtq+ group welcomes everyone who has ties to the Russian-speaking lgbtq+ community to join the group and to get involved.