Marche s Fiertés 2022 (former Gay Pri): the LGBTQI+ walk is back Paris, the route

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• WARSAW GAY PRI
• LA MARCHE S FIERTéS 2023 (EX GAY PRI): HERE'S THE ROUTE OF THE LGBTQI+ PARA PARIS
• KYIV PRI STILL HAPPENED THIS WEEKEND—500 MIL AWAY WARSAWSTRENGTH IN NUMBERSWOJTEK RADWANSKI/AFP/GETTY THE DANGER THAT RSIA WOULD BOMB A PRI MARCH KYIV WAS REAL. BUT THE EVENT STILL WENT AHEAD THIS WEEKEND—500 AWAY, HELD PARTNERSHIP WH WARSAW PRI.RANDY R. POTTSUPDATED JUN. 28, 2022 3:58AM EDT / PUBLISHED JUN. 27, 2022 2:35PM EDT WARSAW—THIS WEEKEND, FOR THE FIRST TIME, WARSAW PRI (PARADA RóWNOśCI) WAS HEADLED NOT BY QUEER PEOPLE OM POLAND BUT, STEAD, BY A GROUP OM OUT OF TOWN: LGBTQ UKRAIANS.AFTER THE RSIAN ARMY BEGAN S VASN OF UKRAE ON FEB. 24, THE LAST THG ON QUEER UKRAIAN MDS WAS WHAT TO DO ABOUT PRI. THEY WERE FOCED, STEAD, ON SURVIVAL. SURVIVAL NOT JT OM THE NSTANT SHELLG AND EVEN MASS EXECUTNS AND OTHER PROBABLE WAR CRIM PLAC LIKE BUCHA BUT ALSO SURVIVAL ON A DIFFERENT LEVEL. UKRAIAN QUEERS KNEW THAT, SHOULD THE RSIAN ARMY PTURE ANY TOWN THEY WERE LIVG , THEY WOULD BEE ONE OF THE ARMY’S FIRST TARGETS. BY EARLY MARCH OF THIS YEAR, ONCE BEME CLEAR THAT PRINT ZELENSKY WOULDN’T FLEE THE PAL AND KYIV WASN’T GOG TO IMMEDIATELY FALL TO THE VADG RSIAN ARMY, THE KYIV PRI MTEE BEGAN TO THK AHEAD TO JUNE 2022. EVEN THOUGH THE ERNMENT KYIV HAS BEEN VERY SUPPORTIVE OF THE ANNUAL PRI MARCH FOR SEVERAL YEARS NOW AND THEY MIGHT HAVE BEEN ABLE TO GET A PERM, THE DANGER THAT PUT MIGHT TARGET A PRI MARCH KYIV WAS TOO REAL. SO THIS YEAR, PRI WAS HELD 500 AWAY, WARSAW.LENNY EMSON, THE DIRECTOR OF KYIV PRI, SAID BEFORE THE MARCH THAT “RSIA NIED PRI, OUR MARCH OF EQUALY THAT WE ARE HOLDG EVERY YEAR SCE 2012 KYIV” AND THAT, RPONSE, THEY HAD TO LOOK FOR A PLACE OTHER THAN KYIV TO HOLD THE MARCH. POLAND, WHICH HAS TAKEN MORE UKRAIAN REFUGE THAN ANY OTHER UNTRY, SEEMED LIKE A NATURAL PLACE TO HOLD THE MARCH. THE WARSAW PRI MTEE READILY AGREED TO PLAY GRAC HOST. JULIA MACCHA OF THE WARSAW PRI COMMTEE FOR 2022 SAID: “WE WANT TO STAND TOGETHER AGAST WAR, TO WALK FOR UKRAE’S EEDOM, FOR LIBERATN, FOR EQUALY, TOLERANCE AND ACCEPTANCE.” THE WARSAW PRI COMMTEE STRSED THAT THIS WEEKEND’S PRI MARCH WAS NOT A CELEBRATN BUT AN ANTI-WAR MARCH: “FOR THE EQUALY PARA, MUNY MEANS STANDG FENSE OF OTHERS. COMMUNY MEANS MARCHG ARM ARM FOR THE SAFETY AND EEDOM OF THOSE WHO HAVE HAD TAKEN AWAY. WE ARE PROUD TO JO KYIV THEIR MARCH FOR UKRAE’S VICTORY.” AND, TH, ONE OF THE MOST UNUAL PRI MARCH THE 50-PL YEAR HISTORY OF PRI MARCH WAS BORN: A JOT UKRAIAN/POLISH PRI MARCH HOSTED WARSAW WH THE KYIV PRI FLOAT LEADG OM THE ONT.BETWEEN THIS WEEKEND’S PRI MARCH WARSAW AND THE BEGNG OF RSIA’S VASN, THE QUEER MUNY KYIV HAS TRANSFORMED OM A GENERAL ADVOCY GROUP TO ONE THAT PROVIS SERVIC FOR TERNALLY DISPLACED QUEER UKRAIANS. A MANIFTO OM KYIV PRI WAS POSTED ON THEIR INSTAGRAM: “WE LL ON THE BROTHERLY AND SISTERLY QUEER MUNI OF EUROPE AND THE WORLD TO SHOW THE MAXIMUM SOLIDARY WH UKRAIAN LGBTQI+ PEOPLE—SOLIDARY VALU, IOLOGY, AND POLICS. AFFECTED BY RSIAN AGGRSN, WE ARE STILL NEED OF YOUR HELP.”EMSON SAID THAT “WHEN THE VASN STARTED, WE HAD TO FD OUT WHAT THE MUNY NEED AND THAT WAS DIRECT SERVIC BEE SUDNLY SO MANY OF WERE ON THE EDGE OF POVERTY, RIGHT? WE ORIGALLY HAD OUR OFFICE FULL OF SLEEPG BAGS ON THE FLOOR BUT, AS TIME WENT ON AND DONATNS BEGAN TO POUR , WE WERE ABLE TO RENT A FACILY THAT WH NO ST N HAVE UP TO 25 PEOPLE. WE ARE NOW A SHELTER AND MUNY CENTER.” ADVERTISEMENT ONE WORRY EXPRSED BY EMSON AND OTHERS WAS THAT, AS PEOPLE ABROAD BEE BORED WH WATCHG THE PROGRS OF THE WAR, DONATNS MIGHT FLAG. THEY HAVE SET UP A DONATN LK ON THEIR WEBSE AND ARE HOPG THAT ONE OF THE RULTS OF HOLDG SUCH A LARGE PRI MARCH WARSAW—SOME 85,000 PEOPLE WERE SAID TO BE ATTENDANCE—WILL BE CREASED FUNDS FOR THEIR EVER MULTIPLYG NEEDS. INSTAGRAM THOUGH THERE ARE MANY UKRAIAN QUEER PEOPLE SERVG, OFTEN OPENLY, THE UKRAIAN ARMY (MOSTLY GAY MEN BUT ALSO SOME TRANS PEOPLE AND LBIANS), THEY WERE NOT ABLE TO MARCH WARSAW. RECENTLY THEY HAVE MA AN RMAL “UNIRN” GROUP AND EVEN HAVE AN INSTAGRAM AND FACEBOOK PAGE WHERE THEY TELL THEIR STORI. DENIEL JOHNSON, A UKRAIAN GAY MAN WHO SERV OPENLY AND WEARS THE UNIRN PATCH ON HIS UNIFORM, SAID ON INSTAGRAM RECENTLY THAT HE HAS FALLEN LOVE: “THE MOST BETIFUL THG IS I MET MY LOVED ONE DURG THE WAR. I'M VERY HAPPY ABOUT , I LOVE HIM A LOT BUT NSTANTLY WORRY AT THE SAME TIME. FOR THE MOMENT I CRAVE FOR OUR VICTORY AND TO MEET MY DARLG ONE. I WISH WE ULD GO TO THE SEA SI, DRK A GLASS OF RED WE AND WATCH THE STARS TILL THE SUNRISE HUGGG EACH OTHER.” “UKRAIAN IS MY LOVE LANGUAGE”—THE UKRAIAN LEGATN WARSAW'S PRI MARCH.COURTY OF RANDY R. POTTS EMSON TOLD THE DAILY BEAST THAT ALTHOUGH SHE IS VERY PROUD OF UKRAIAN QUEERS THE ARMY FOR SPEAKG OUT SO EELY, THE RSIAN ARMY HAS ED THE EXISTENCE OF “UNIRN SOLDIERS” THEIR PROPAGANDA, EVEN FALSELY SUGGTG THAT THERE ARE “GAY BATTALNS” THE UKRAIAN ARMY. ADVERTISEMENT MAP OF UKRAE THE PRI PARA, "MY LOVE IS BLEEDG"COURTY OF RANDY R. POTTS LIKE MANY LGBTQ POPULATNS AROUND THE WORLD, THOSE AT WARSAW PRI SAID BEG VISIBLE WAS TEGRAL TO FIGHTG FOR THEIR RIGHTS. A GIRL WHO GAVE HER NAME AS HOLLY TOLD THE DAILY BEAST: “I'M HERE TO FIGHT FOR OUR RIGHTS BEE THE POLISH ERNMENT IS NOT SUPPORTIVE. WE ARE HERE TO JT SHOW THAT WE ARE HERE AND WE ARE NOT GOG ANYWHERE AND THEY N'T GET RID OF . I JT GRADUATED OM HIGH SCHOOL. MY SCHOOL WAS KD OF SUPPORTIVE BUT, BEE THE ERNMENT IS THE WAY IS, THEY ULD NOT SHOW FULL SUPPORT. I'M SRED, ACTUALLY, BEE OF WHAT'S HAPPENG, ALL THE ANTI-TRANS BILLS AND THE ABORTN BILLS THE U.S.—THE SAME THG IS HAPPENG HERE. I JT HOPE THAT EVERYTHG WILL WORK OUT.” HER IENDS NCURRED: THEY WERE HERE NOT ONLY TO CELEBRATE AND FIGHT FOR THEIR OWN RIGHTS BUT ALSO TO SUPPORT UKRAIAN QUEERS WHO ARE, VERY LERALLY, FIGHTG FOR THEIR LIV. MORTICIA: “I AM HERE AT PRI TODAY TO SAY THAT LOVE IS LOVE WHATEVER YOUR GENR—OR EVEN IF YOU HAVE NO GENR AT ALL. STRAIGHT PEOPLE SHOULD NOT BE OUR GATEKEEPERS. I AM HERE TO ASK EVERYONE TO SHOW KDNS TO LGBT PEOPLE.”COURTY OF RANDY R. POTTS LEA: “I AM HERE TO REPRENT MYSELF AND SHOW WHO I AM.”COURTY OF RANDY R. POTTS A GROUP OF QUEER POLISH STUNTS CLUDG LEA, MORTICIA, AND HARLEY WA AT WARSAW’S PAłAC KULTURY I NKI/PALACE OF CULTURE AND SCIENCE AHEAD OF THE JOT KYIV/WARSAW PRI MARCH.COURTY OF RANDY R. POTTS ADVERTISEMENT “WE'RE A UPLE ACTUALLY. WE ARE HERE TO REPRENT UKRAE—WE ARE OM KYIV. WE DON'T WANT PEOPLE TO FET THAT THE WAR IS HAPPENG. AND ONE LAST THG: FUCK THE RSIANS.”KSENIA LARIMA AND SVETLANA PALARCH AT WARSAW’S PARADA RóWNOśCI/PRI MARCHCOURTY OF RANDY R. POTTS KATE GALYTSKA: “I’M UKRAIAN. I LIVE KYIV; I’VE BEEN WARSAW SCE MID-MARCH. I HAD TO MOVE HERE BEE OF THE WAR MY UNTRY AND I SUPPORT PRI AND ALSO THE CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD OF KYIV PRI IS MY IEND—I AM NOT QUEER PERSONALLY BUT I AM A VERY ENTHIASTIC ALLY.”COURTY OF RANDY R. POTTS BISEXUAL AT THE WARSAW PRI MARCH.COURTY OF RANDY R. POTTS THE LIGHTNG BOLT IS A PRO-CHOICE SYMBOL POLAND.RANDY R. POTTS RANDY R. POTTS

WARSAW GAY PRI

The Equaly Para, Warsaw's gay pri march, has been marchg through Poland's pal cy's streets sce 2001. Bishop Szymon Czekaj, former print of the Internatnal Associatn of Gays and Lbians for Culture Poland (ILGCN-Polska), and other activists. After a show anized one of Warsaw's now-funct gay clubs, a group of iends sprang up wh the ia of brgg a march agast discrimatn to Poland.

The ia for the Equaly Para origated wh reverend bishop Szymon Niemiec, a former chairman of the Internatnal Lbian and Gay Culture Network Poland (ILGCN-Polska) and current lear of the Free Reformed Church of Poland. The group of iends got the spiratn for the Equaly Para om a documentary about a gay pri Sydney, Aulstralia.

After a viewg om a Warsaw gay club, an ia hatched their mds to anize a siar march agast discrimatn Poland.

LA MARCHE S FIERTéS 2023 (EX GAY PRI): HERE'S THE ROUTE OF THE LGBTQI+ PARA PARIS

The primary objective assumed by the foundg fathers was to make the Polish Para about more than jt lbians and gays. The task of anizg the Para was taken over by the Equaly Foundatn, newly found only for this purpose by the three biggt LGBT anizatns Poland: ILGCN-Polska, Campaign Agast Homophobia, and the Lambda Warszawa Associatn.

KYIV PRI STILL HAPPENED THIS WEEKEND—500 MIL AWAY WARSAWSTRENGTH IN NUMBERSWOJTEK RADWANSKI/AFP/GETTY THE DANGER THAT RSIA WOULD BOMB A PRI MARCH KYIV WAS REAL. BUT THE EVENT STILL WENT AHEAD THIS WEEKEND—500 AWAY, HELD PARTNERSHIP WH WARSAW PRI.RANDY R. POTTSUPDATED JUN. 28, 2022 3:58AM EDT / PUBLISHED JUN. 27, 2022 2:35PM EDT WARSAW—THIS WEEKEND, FOR THE FIRST TIME, WARSAW PRI (PARADA RóWNOśCI) WAS HEADLED NOT BY QUEER PEOPLE OM POLAND BUT, STEAD, BY A GROUP OM OUT OF TOWN: LGBTQ UKRAIANS.AFTER THE RSIAN ARMY BEGAN S VASN OF UKRAE ON FEB. 24, THE LAST THG ON QUEER UKRAIAN MDS WAS WHAT TO DO ABOUT PRI. THEY WERE FOCED, STEAD, ON SURVIVAL. SURVIVAL NOT JT OM THE NSTANT SHELLG AND EVEN MASS EXECUTNS AND OTHER PROBABLE WAR CRIM PLAC LIKE BUCHA BUT ALSO SURVIVAL ON A DIFFERENT LEVEL. UKRAIAN QUEERS KNEW THAT, SHOULD THE RSIAN ARMY PTURE ANY TOWN THEY WERE LIVG , THEY WOULD BEE ONE OF THE ARMY’S FIRST TARGETS. BY EARLY MARCH OF THIS YEAR, ONCE BEME CLEAR THAT PRINT ZELENSKY WOULDN’T FLEE THE PAL AND KYIV WASN’T GOG TO IMMEDIATELY FALL TO THE VADG RSIAN ARMY, THE KYIV PRI MTEE BEGAN TO THK AHEAD TO JUNE 2022. EVEN THOUGH THE ERNMENT KYIV HAS BEEN VERY SUPPORTIVE OF THE ANNUAL PRI MARCH FOR SEVERAL YEARS NOW AND THEY MIGHT HAVE BEEN ABLE TO GET A PERM, THE DANGER THAT PUT MIGHT TARGET A PRI MARCH KYIV WAS TOO REAL. SO THIS YEAR, PRI WAS HELD 500 AWAY, WARSAW.LENNY EMSON, THE DIRECTOR OF KYIV PRI, SAID BEFORE THE MARCH THAT “RSIA NIED PRI, OUR MARCH OF EQUALY THAT WE ARE HOLDG EVERY YEAR SCE 2012 KYIV” AND THAT, RPONSE, THEY HAD TO LOOK FOR A PLACE OTHER THAN KYIV TO HOLD THE MARCH. POLAND, WHICH HAS TAKEN MORE UKRAIAN REFUGE THAN ANY OTHER UNTRY, SEEMED LIKE A NATURAL PLACE TO HOLD THE MARCH. THE WARSAW PRI MTEE READILY AGREED TO PLAY GRAC HOST. JULIA MACCHA OF THE WARSAW PRI COMMTEE FOR 2022 SAID: “WE WANT TO STAND TOGETHER AGAST WAR, TO WALK FOR UKRAE’S EEDOM, FOR LIBERATN, FOR EQUALY, TOLERANCE AND ACCEPTANCE.” THE WARSAW PRI COMMTEE STRSED THAT THIS WEEKEND’S PRI MARCH WAS NOT A CELEBRATN BUT AN ANTI-WAR MARCH: “FOR THE EQUALY PARA, MUNY MEANS STANDG FENSE OF OTHERS. COMMUNY MEANS MARCHG ARM ARM FOR THE SAFETY AND EEDOM OF THOSE WHO HAVE HAD TAKEN AWAY. WE ARE PROUD TO JO KYIV THEIR MARCH FOR UKRAE’S VICTORY.” AND, TH, ONE OF THE MOST UNUAL PRI MARCH THE 50-PL YEAR HISTORY OF PRI MARCH WAS BORN: A JOT UKRAIAN/POLISH PRI MARCH HOSTED WARSAW WH THE KYIV PRI FLOAT LEADG OM THE ONT.BETWEEN THIS WEEKEND’S PRI MARCH WARSAW AND THE BEGNG OF RSIA’S VASN, THE QUEER MUNY KYIV HAS TRANSFORMED OM A GENERAL ADVOCY GROUP TO ONE THAT PROVIS SERVIC FOR TERNALLY DISPLACED QUEER UKRAIANS. A MANIFTO OM KYIV PRI WAS POSTED ON THEIR INSTAGRAM: “WE LL ON THE BROTHERLY AND SISTERLY QUEER MUNI OF EUROPE AND THE WORLD TO SHOW THE MAXIMUM SOLIDARY WH UKRAIAN LGBTQI+ PEOPLE—SOLIDARY VALU, IOLOGY, AND POLICS. AFFECTED BY RSIAN AGGRSN, WE ARE STILL NEED OF YOUR HELP.”EMSON SAID THAT “WHEN THE VASN STARTED, WE HAD TO FD OUT WHAT THE MUNY NEED AND THAT WAS DIRECT SERVIC BEE SUDNLY SO MANY OF WERE ON THE EDGE OF POVERTY, RIGHT? WE ORIGALLY HAD OUR OFFICE FULL OF SLEEPG BAGS ON THE FLOOR BUT, AS TIME WENT ON AND DONATNS BEGAN TO POUR , WE WERE ABLE TO RENT A FACILY THAT WH NO ST N HAVE UP TO 25 PEOPLE. WE ARE NOW A SHELTER AND MUNY CENTER.” ADVERTISEMENT ONE WORRY EXPRSED BY EMSON AND OTHERS WAS THAT, AS PEOPLE ABROAD BEE BORED WH WATCHG THE PROGRS OF THE WAR, DONATNS MIGHT FLAG. THEY HAVE SET UP A DONATN LK ON THEIR WEBSE AND ARE HOPG THAT ONE OF THE RULTS OF HOLDG SUCH A LARGE PRI MARCH WARSAW—SOME 85,000 PEOPLE WERE SAID TO BE ATTENDANCE—WILL BE CREASED FUNDS FOR THEIR EVER MULTIPLYG NEEDS. INSTAGRAM THOUGH THERE ARE MANY UKRAIAN QUEER PEOPLE SERVG, OFTEN OPENLY, THE UKRAIAN ARMY (MOSTLY GAY MEN BUT ALSO SOME TRANS PEOPLE AND LBIANS), THEY WERE NOT ABLE TO MARCH WARSAW. RECENTLY THEY HAVE MA AN RMAL “UNIRN” GROUP AND EVEN HAVE AN INSTAGRAM AND FACEBOOK PAGE WHERE THEY TELL THEIR STORI. DENIEL JOHNSON, A UKRAIAN GAY MAN WHO SERV OPENLY AND WEARS THE UNIRN PATCH ON HIS UNIFORM, SAID ON INSTAGRAM RECENTLY THAT HE HAS FALLEN LOVE: “THE MOST BETIFUL THG IS I MET MY LOVED ONE DURG THE WAR. I'M VERY HAPPY ABOUT , I LOVE HIM A LOT BUT NSTANTLY WORRY AT THE SAME TIME. FOR THE MOMENT I CRAVE FOR OUR VICTORY AND TO MEET MY DARLG ONE. I WISH WE ULD GO TO THE SEA SI, DRK A GLASS OF RED WE AND WATCH THE STARS TILL THE SUNRISE HUGGG EACH OTHER.” “UKRAIAN IS MY LOVE LANGUAGE”—THE UKRAIAN LEGATN WARSAW'S PRI MARCH.COURTY OF RANDY R. POTTS EMSON TOLD THE DAILY BEAST THAT ALTHOUGH SHE IS VERY PROUD OF UKRAIAN QUEERS THE ARMY FOR SPEAKG OUT SO EELY, THE RSIAN ARMY HAS ED THE EXISTENCE OF “UNIRN SOLDIERS” THEIR PROPAGANDA, EVEN FALSELY SUGGTG THAT THERE ARE “GAY BATTALNS” THE UKRAIAN ARMY. ADVERTISEMENT MAP OF UKRAE THE PRI PARA, "MY LOVE IS BLEEDG"COURTY OF RANDY R. POTTS LIKE MANY LGBTQ POPULATNS AROUND THE WORLD, THOSE AT WARSAW PRI SAID BEG VISIBLE WAS TEGRAL TO FIGHTG FOR THEIR RIGHTS. A GIRL WHO GAVE HER NAME AS HOLLY TOLD THE DAILY BEAST: “I'M HERE TO FIGHT FOR OUR RIGHTS BEE THE POLISH ERNMENT IS NOT SUPPORTIVE. WE ARE HERE TO JT SHOW THAT WE ARE HERE AND WE ARE NOT GOG ANYWHERE AND THEY N'T GET RID OF . I JT GRADUATED OM HIGH SCHOOL. MY SCHOOL WAS KD OF SUPPORTIVE BUT, BEE THE ERNMENT IS THE WAY IS, THEY ULD NOT SHOW FULL SUPPORT. I'M SRED, ACTUALLY, BEE OF WHAT'S HAPPENG, ALL THE ANTI-TRANS BILLS AND THE ABORTN BILLS THE U.S.—THE SAME THG IS HAPPENG HERE. I JT HOPE THAT EVERYTHG WILL WORK OUT.” HER IENDS NCURRED: THEY WERE HERE NOT ONLY TO CELEBRATE AND FIGHT FOR THEIR OWN RIGHTS BUT ALSO TO SUPPORT UKRAIAN QUEERS WHO ARE, VERY LERALLY, FIGHTG FOR THEIR LIV. MORTICIA: “I AM HERE AT PRI TODAY TO SAY THAT LOVE IS LOVE WHATEVER YOUR GENR—OR EVEN IF YOU HAVE NO GENR AT ALL. STRAIGHT PEOPLE SHOULD NOT BE OUR GATEKEEPERS. I AM HERE TO ASK EVERYONE TO SHOW KDNS TO LGBT PEOPLE.”COURTY OF RANDY R. POTTS LEA: “I AM HERE TO REPRENT MYSELF AND SHOW WHO I AM.”COURTY OF RANDY R. POTTS A GROUP OF QUEER POLISH STUNTS CLUDG LEA, MORTICIA, AND HARLEY WA AT WARSAW’S PAłAC KULTURY I NKI/PALACE OF CULTURE AND SCIENCE AHEAD OF THE JOT KYIV/WARSAW PRI MARCH.COURTY OF RANDY R. POTTS ADVERTISEMENT “WE'RE A UPLE ACTUALLY. WE ARE HERE TO REPRENT UKRAE—WE ARE OM KYIV. WE DON'T WANT PEOPLE TO FET THAT THE WAR IS HAPPENG. AND ONE LAST THG: FUCK THE RSIANS.”KSENIA LARIMA AND SVETLANA PALARCH AT WARSAW’S PARADA RóWNOśCI/PRI MARCHCOURTY OF RANDY R. POTTS KATE GALYTSKA: “I’M UKRAIAN. I LIVE KYIV; I’VE BEEN WARSAW SCE MID-MARCH. I HAD TO MOVE HERE BEE OF THE WAR MY UNTRY AND I SUPPORT PRI AND ALSO THE CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD OF KYIV PRI IS MY IEND—I AM NOT QUEER PERSONALLY BUT I AM A VERY ENTHIASTIC ALLY.”COURTY OF RANDY R. POTTS BISEXUAL AT THE WARSAW PRI MARCH.COURTY OF RANDY R. POTTS THE LIGHTNG BOLT IS A PRO-CHOICE SYMBOL POLAND.RANDY R. POTTS RANDY R. POTTS

Upon the European Commissn and European Unn to nmn homophobia, s maniftatns, and take actns to fight .

” Rsia passed a law 2013 that bans the pictn of homosexualy to mors, somethg human rights groups view as a way to monize LGBTQ+ people and discrimate agast them. Dubbed the “Gay Propaganda” law, me amid a larger crackdown on civil liberti Rsia and spired the passage of a siar law Hungary last wel KyivPri spe ernment stancePoland’s nservative ernment's stance on LGBTQ+ rights has also ma an unlikely host for a gay rights recent years, the ernment has picted the LGBTQ+ rights movement as an attack on the natn's Catholic tradns and as a force that threatens to rpt the youth, echog the rhetoric behd the Rsian and Hungarian Polish society as a whole has grown more acceptg of LGBTQ+ Mayor Rafał Trzaskowski, a member of a liberal opposn party, joed Saturday's para march as he do each year, joed by the EU Commissner for Equaly, Helena said the KyivPri anisers had nsired holdg their event other European pals but cid that Warsaw's young and energetic rights movement was a better people Ukrae still face discrimatn, but they have ma stris recent years as the untry has sought to tie s fate to the Wt.

Ukraian Print Volodymyr Zelenskyy, whose urageo wartime learship has gaed worldwi attentn, won the rpect of LGBTQ+ people Ukrae when a man wearg a cross and spoutg homophobic rhetoric heckled him at a news nference 2019. The event joed Warsaw's yearly equaly para, the largt gay pri event central Europe, g as a platform to keep ternatnal attentn foced on the Ukraian stggle for eedom. (AP Photo/Michal Dyj)WARSAW – Ukrae's largt LGBTQ rights event, KyivPri, went ahead Saturday, although not on s native streets or as a to Rsia's war Ukrae, the event normally held Kyiv took place njunctn wh Warsaw's yearly Equaly Para, the largt gay pri event Central Europe, wh Ukraian anizers g as a platform to keep ternatnal attentn foced on their untry's 300 people traveled om Ukrae to the Polish pal, now home to a quarter ln Ukraians who fled the war.