The picture book fighting back against Russia’s LGBT+ propaganda law

A story for children about families with same-sex parents has been published in Russia as part of a campaign to have the country's gay propaganda' law repealed

A month after a Hungarian bookshop chain was fined for selling a children's story about a day in the life of a child with same-sex parents, the same picture book has been published in Russia - but with an 18+" label on it in deference to the country's so-called gay propaganda" law.

American author Lawrence Schimel and illustrator Elna Braslia's picture book tells about a morning and an evening in the lives of two children with same-sex parents. It is published as two titles in English - Early One Morning, about a young boy's morning with his two mothers; and Bedtime, Not Playtime!, which follows a girl with two fathers at bedtime. The Russian translation, by Dmitriy Kuzmin, combines both books under the title Mothers, Fathers and Kids from Dusk till Dawn.