Gessen's paternal grandmother Ester Goldberg, the daughter of a socialist mother and a Zionist father, was born in Białystok, Poland, in 1923 and emigrated to Moscow in 1940. Gessen was born into a Jewish family in Moscow to Alexander and Yelena Gessen. Since 2017, they have been a staff writer for The New Yorker. In addition to being the author of several non-fiction books, they have been a prolific contributor to such publications as The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, The New Republic, New Statesman, Granta, Slate, Vanity Fair, Harper's Magazine, The New Yorker, and U.S. Gessen writes primarily in English but also in their native Russian. They now live in New York with their wife and children. Described as "Russia's leading LGBT rights activist", Gessen has said that for many years they were "probably the only publicly out gay person in the whole country". Gessen has written extensively on LGBT rights. Gessen is nonbinary and trans and uses they/them pronouns. Masha Gessen (Russian: Мари́я "Маша" Алекса́ндровна Ге́ссен born 13 January 1967) is a Russian-American journalist, author, translator, and activist who has been an outspoken critic of Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump.
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