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LGBTQ REFUGE FLEEG UKRAE FACE DISCRIMATN UNTRI WH ANTI-GAY LAWS
An activist's silhouette is seen through a rabow flag durg a gay pri para Kyiv on May 25, 2013. Women also fight Ukrae's ary, and people are not expelled for beg gay or transgenr, although they are not necsarily weled. Many Ukraians are fleeg to Poland and Hungary, and activists say they will face particular challeng there, sce the European Unn has nmned both untri for havg anti-gay laws.
In Poland, gay upl n't marry, form civil unns or adopt children. In 2019, an opn poll found that almost a quarter of Polish people believe that homosexualy mt not be tolerated, and there are so-lled "LGBTQ-ee" zon across the untry. "We don't want them to be kept refugee mps or big buildgs or huge plac where they are not safe bee of urse homophobia is still existg Poland.
“There is no system that n stop this sh.”LGBTQ people have been at the center of the tug-of-war over Ukrae’s future om the moment Vladimir Put lnched his csa to pry om Europe.I first met Shevchenko the fall of 2013, when I me to Kyiv to wre a story headled “The Rsian Plot to Take Back Eastern Europe at the Expense of Gay Rights.” That was a big moment both Ukrae and Rsia. And global LGBTQ rights advot had been hammerg Put for months, followg Rsia’s enactment of s so-lled “gay propaganda law.”People attend the annual KyivPri gay para as rt police provi secury Kyiv, Ukrae on 19 September 2021.