ADDED ON: 06/06/2023
The Ukrainian MP Andrii Kozhemiakin is a wiry, conservative ex-spy who likes to emphasise his Christian faith and large family. He is also an unlikely new recruit in the fight for LGBT…
ADDED ON: 06/02/2023
PARIS, June 1 (Reuters) - A same-sex couple who tried unsuccessfully to get married at seven different register offices in Ukraine suffered discrimination, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled on…
ADDED ON: 04/26/2023
When Russian troops swarmed Kyiv in early 2022, Andrii Kravchuk was summoned to serve. As he approached the military office to enlist, his heart raced. He wasn’t afraid to defend his country.…
ADDED ON: 04/22/2023
When Vladimir Putin announced Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022, he framed the move in part as a means of defending traditional values from Western attitudes “that are directly…
ADDED ON: 04/17/2023
KYIV, Ukraine — On a riotous Instagram profile featuring pole-dancing, cross-dressing and fierce makeup, a picture of Ivan Honzyk in high heels and stockings next to an image of him in military…
ADDED ON: 04/04/2023
It has been one year since Russia invaded Ukraine. Despite resulting in displacement and violence, Ukraine's LGBTI community has found ways to strengthen its fight for political and civil rights. Margerita Afom…
ADDED ON: 03/29/2023
A queer Ukrainian solider has called for same-sex marriage to be legalised in the country as LGBTQ+ soldiers “could die tomorrow” and their partners would have no legal rights in an “unfair”…
ADDED ON: 03/19/2023
Members of the LGBT community in Ukraine have gathered signatures for a petition to introduce mandatory sex education in Ukrainian schools. It gathered thousands of votes. The petition demands an introduction "of…
ADDED ON: 03/13/2023
Anastasiia Yeva Domani has lived in Kyiv for her entire life and never plans to move. She is familiar face to many in the trans community in Ukraine, so she used this…
ADDED ON: 03/03/2023
In Kherson, two Russian occupiers used the same insult – "pinks" – when they burst into the hide-out of a lesbian couple. The men then violently raped the two women at gunpoint, according…
ADDED ON: 01/03/2023
In 2015, the Ukrainian parliament approved an anti-discrimination in employment law concerning sexual orientation and gender identity, and in 2016 Ukrainian authorities simplified the transgender transition process for transgender people and began…
ADDED ON: 12/07/2022
I was shocked when I learned of LGBTQ Nation reporter Sarah Ashton-Cirillo – the only openly transgender war correspondent working in Ukraine. It was May, and I was in Kharkiv, a large…
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