# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/m-gessen
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:16:16.208Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/m-gessen"
name: "M. Gessen"
slug: "m-gessen"
description: "M. Gessen is a Russian American journalist, author, and translator who has written extensively on LGBT rights."
tagline: "Russian-American journalist and activist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Gessen%2C_Masha1.jpeg?width=1200"
gender: "non-binary"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1967-01-13"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  sourceConfidence:     80
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  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump