LGBTQ soldiers on Ukrae’s ont l have put the lie to the ia that “a gay nnot be a patrt.”
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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. A 2021 study by the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn ranked Ukrae 39th out of 49 European untri terms of LGBT rights legislatn — which is not great.