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Added on: 01/03/2023

Recognizing LGBT+ Rights in Ukraine – Lessons from Iceland

01/02/2023

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…

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Added on: 12/07/2022

Ukraine’s only transgender correspondent has become a local legend

12/6/2022

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…

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Added on: 12/01/2022

Rainbow flag-waving protester invades World Cup pitch

11/30/2022

A man ran onto the pitch during Monday’s World Cup group-stage match between Portugal and Uruguay, holding up a rainbow flag to protest Qatar’s anti-LGBT laws. The…

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Added on: 10/04/2022

Ukraine: Amid War, LGBTI People Fight for Equal Rights

10/03/2022

In late September, the LGBTI community in Ukraine’s northeastern city of Kharkiv defied ongoing shelling to hold a week of Pride events under the slogan, United as…

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Added on: 09/07/2022

Ukraine’s LGBT activists face down war and homophobic attacks to support the vulnerable

09/06/2022

“Please remember to not take any photos that could identify the location of the shelter,” says Maxim Potapovych, of Ukraine LGBT rights organisation, Kyiv Pride, as he…

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Added on: 08/01/2022

An interview with Emmie America: The defiant Russian fashion photographer and LGBTQ+ activist

07/31/2022

In 2021, fashion photographer and activist, Emmie America, was detained and fined by Russian authorities, after organising a politically charged photo shoot in Moscow, where 25 participants…

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Added on: 08/01/2022

Fleeing War and Discrimination, LGBT Russians Find Refuge in South Caucasus

07/31/2022

YEREVAN, Armenia — When tens of thousands of Russians fled the country this spring following the Kremlin’s invasion of Ukraine, many chose to resettle in Armenia and…

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Added on: 07/30/2022

This bisexual journalist returned to Ukraine to face her fears & honor her past

7/29/22

Morning turned into afternoon. A scorching sun blanketed the concrete of the local sports hall belonging to the community of Zolochiv, a frontline village just minutes from…

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Added on: 07/25/2022

Double the risk for Russian tennis star speaking out on LGBTQ rights and war in Ukraine

07/24/2022

Russia’s top female tennis player, Daria “Dasha” Kasatkina, has done something no Russian athlete of her rank has done before — she came out. While seeing a professional athlete from Canada or the…

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Added on: 07/11/2022

Zelenskyy Set To Consider Gay Marriage Petition; Likely To Legalise It In Ukraine: Report

07/10/2022

In a significant development amid the ongoing war, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is likely to consider a petition calling to legalise gay marriage in the country. Although Ukrainian…

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Added on: 06/26/2022

With war, Kyiv pride parade becomes a peace march in Warsaw

6/25/22

Ukraine’s largest LGBTQ rights event, KyivPride, went ahead Saturday, although not on its native streets or as a celebration. Due to Russia’s war in Ukraine, the event…

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Added on: 06/22/2022

War crimes against LGBTQ people in Ukraine are “worse than people can imagine”.

06/21/2022

War crimes are a barbaric byproduct of conflict and combat. In an era of near incessant news coverage, the phrase has become a catch-all for heinous acts…

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Added on: 06/15/2022

How Kyiv’s L.G.B.T.Q. Community Found Shelter from the Russian Invasion.

06/14/2022

“The scariest thing was waking up,” Jul Sirous told me about the first couple of weeks after Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, in February. “What…

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Added on: 05/30/2022

LGBTQ Ukrainians and Russians find solidarity in Berlin

05/29/2022

Berlin, Germany – Having visited the German capital twice before, Polina Punegova, from the Russian port city of St Petersburg, had often told her Ukrainian partner Yulia…

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Added on: 05/27/2022

Not even Russian bombs can silence queer Ukrainian journalist Maksym Eristavi

05/26/2022

A queer Ukrainian journalist. A writer. A public speaker. A self-proclaimed bridge builder and “Russian colonialism storyteller-in-chief.” Maksym Eristavi was born to amplify voices! For only being in…

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Added on: 05/22/2022

French comedy on Russian homophobia filmed in Ukraine

5/22/22

“The Revenge of the Shiny Shrimps” follows an all-queer water polo team that lands in homophobic Russia. But the scenes had to be shot in Ukraine, before…

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Added on: 05/14/2022

LGBTI rights in Ukraine conflict in focus at Cyprus conference

5/13/22

The IDAHOT + Forum 2022 is taking place in Limassol, Cyprus, on 12-13 May, ahead of the International Day against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia on Tuesday 17…

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Added on: 05/06/2022

Trans Ukrainians being forced back into closet as cruel despot Putin’s bloodthirsty war rages on

05/06/2022

LGBT+ Ukrainians have been living in fear and uncertainty ever since Russia launched its full scale invasion in February. Now, some are retreating into the closet in the face…

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Added on: 05/01/2022

Brave Ukrainian student flees to Edinburgh after LGBT+ safe spaces disappear due to war

4/30/22

A brave Ukrainian student has fled to Edinburgh after his country became extremely unsafe for the LGBT+ community. Nick, a 22-year-old journalism student from Kyiv says he…

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Added on: 04/25/2022

What does Europe’s right want?

04/24/2022

The last time we had met, Ronald Reagan’s deregulation tsar Chris DeMuth reminded the audience, it was “the last week of normal life in Europe to date”….

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Added on: 04/19/2022

We did not run away’: Ukraine’s LGBTQ+ community fights homophobia on the frontlines.

04/18/2022

Since Russia invaded Ukraine in February, members of the LGBTQ+ community and activists have been visibly joining and helping Ukraine’s army – with some hoping their participation…

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Added on: 04/16/2022

The library sheltering queer refugees fleeing Ukraine

4/15/22

This is not the story I planned to write. Initially, it was about Biblioteka Azyl, the queer library Filip Kijowski founded at Lublin’s Galeria Labirynt in 2020…

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Added on: 04/15/2022

Man Attacks Chair of Ukrainian LGBT Rights Group

04/14/2022

(WB) A man on Thursday attacked the chair of an LGBT rights group in Ukraine with pepper spray. Insight Chair Olena Shevchenko in a Facebook post said the…

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Added on: 04/14/2022

LGBTQ Ukrainians, fearing Russian attacks at home and discrimination in shelters, face an uncertain future

04/12/2022

When a friend called Andrii Zarytskyi at 5 a.m., his voice shaking, to say the first bombs had dropped on their city of Mykolaiv, Mr. Zarytskyi didn’t believe…

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Added on: 04/10/2022

WHO to supply HIV drugs to Ukraine

4/6/22

The World Health Organization said on Tuesday it will supply thousands of doses of life-saving antiretroviral drugs to Ukraine to cover the needs of HIV patients in…

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Added on: 03/30/2022

Ukrainian LGBTQ Artist Who Can’t Leave Kyiv Is Painting For Peace.

03/29/2020

Dark thoughts haunt LGBTQ people in Ukraine. A relentless Russian invasion continues, despite peace talks beginning. If they win, a Russian occupation terrifies LGBTQ Ukrainians. In Russia,…

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Added on: 03/29/2022

Meet the gay Ukrainian men willing to go to war for their country.

03/28/2022

In the weeks following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the devastation of war has descended upon the country. As is typical in warfare, minorities have borne the…

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Added on: 03/25/2022

CZESLAW WALEK — PRAGUE PRIDE

Alturi Project Strategist

Prague Pride’s Motivation Before the war began, Prague Pride was more focused on issues like LGBTI crisis alleviation, nondiscrimination in the workplace, and legislation for marriage equality….

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Added on: 03/20/2022

Meet the asylum seeker who chairs Carlisle City of Sanctuary group

3/20/22

MINA Banisaeid is an asylum seeker who has not only changed her own life, but is helping to improve the lives of others around her. She is…

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Added on: 03/17/2022

LGBTQ refugees fleeing Ukraine draw on European network of allies to find housing, medical care

03/16/2022

When Edward Reese, a queer activist who works with Kyiv Pride, decided to flee Ukraine on March 8, he knew it was going to be a long…