Go to mobile site. Earlier this year, the now-Brooklyn resident described clashing with Moscow military police during a gay pride rally in the Russian capital to the New York Daily News. They are not nude but naked, for they had courage to shed the many layers of fear and come out to the world uncovered, vulnerable, yet proud. That's how curator Ivan Savvine describes "Asylum," the poignant new exhibition featuring the work of gay photographer and filmmaker Alexander Kargaltsev , which opens Oct.