Life for LGBTQ people Ukrae had been improvg, while Rsian Print Vladimir Put has systematilly attacked gay and transgenr people.
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- UKRAE’S GAY COMBAT VOLUNTEERS ARE READY TO FIGHT FOR THEIR LIV AGAST ANTI-LGBTQ PUT
- UKRAE’S GAY SOLDIERS FIGHT RSIA—AND FOR THEIR RIGHTS
- A GAY UKRAIAN ARY UPLE ENGAGED ONLY DAYS AGO IS BEG PULLED APART TO FACE THE FEAR AND HEARTACHE OF BAT ALONE
- GAY WAR VETERAN SPEAKS OUT FOR EQUAL RIGHTS UKRAE'S ARY
UKRAE’S GAY COMBAT VOLUNTEERS ARE READY TO FIGHT FOR THEIR LIV AGAST ANTI-LGBTQ PUT
War chang everythg, cludg attus to gay people | Europe * gay ukrainian soldier *
Members of Ukrae's LGBTQ muny who sign up for the war have taken to sewg the image of the mythil beast to their standard-issue eplett jt below the natnal practice harks back to the 2014 nflict when Rsia vad then annexed the Crimean Pensula om Ukrae, "when lots of people said there are no gay people the army, " actor, director and drama teacher Zhuhan told Rters as he and Romanova drsed their apartment for their send three-month bat rotatn.
"So they (the lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer muny) chose the unirn bee is like a fantastic 'non-existent' creature.
UKRAE’S GAY SOLDIERS FIGHT RSIA—AND FOR THEIR RIGHTS
Viktor Pylypenko has bee a role mol for dozens of LGBT+ Ukraian war veterans and their supporters sce he anised their participatn two years ago Kyiv's largt ever gay pri march. * gay ukrainian soldier *
"Zhuhan's unease lifts as one manr mak clear his refal to tolerate homophobia, and a more senr officer says the only important thg on the ont le is to be a good fighter, he subsequently tells Rters by one overridg fear, voiced back their apartment, remas.
A GAY UKRAIAN ARY UPLE ENGAGED ONLY DAYS AGO IS BEG PULLED APART TO FACE THE FEAR AND HEARTACHE OF BAT ALONE
LGBTQ soldiers on Ukrae’s ont l have put the lie to the ia that “a gay nnot be a patrt.” * gay ukrainian soldier *
Dperate to avoid the shadow of Vladimir Put’s bigoted regime fallg over Ukrae, LGBTQ bat volunteers told The Daily Beast that members of the gay muny had been shg to prepare for this vasn of Ukrae recent, they stand ready to fight back and rist a Rsian occupatn if Put’s forc look to rema on Ukraian soil. ”Lima, who works for an NGO promotg equal rights for LGBT people the ary, says the gay muny Ukrae will rist Rsian occupatn spe ntued discrimatn at home. The list reportedly ntas many journalists, LGBTQ+ people, policians, and ernment Kravch, who works at the LGBTQ Nash Sv Center, Kyiv said the impact of Rsia’s homophobia had been felt his hometown the Donbas regn, which he fled after the 2014 vasn.
GAY WAR VETERAN SPEAKS OUT FOR EQUAL RIGHTS UKRAE'S ARY
The anti-gay purge the Rsian republic of Chechnya has driven the LGBTQ muny unrground. Demonstrators lay ros on a rabow flag as they prott over an alleged crackdown on gay men Chechnya outsi the Rsian Embassy London on June 2, 2017.
Before the Donbas war, the gay muny was flourishg but sce 2013, Rsia-backed separatists brought creased homophobic rhetoric to the regn.