Thoands of people cludg soldiers and diplomats marched peacefully through the Ukraian pal on Sunday an annual gay pri para spe some opposn to an event lled off last year bee of the ronavis panmic.
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- UKRAE HOLDS UNTRY'S LARGT EVER GAY PRI PARA
- UKRAE HOSTS BIGGT EVER GAY PRI PARA
- SOLDIERS JO BIGGT GAY PRI MARCH UKRAE
- THE PERILS OF STAGG A GAY PRI MARCH UKRAE
UKRAE HOLDS UNTRY'S LARGT EVER GAY PRI PARA
Ukraian policians and foreign diplomats joed thoands marchg a gay pri para Kiev on Sunday, the biggt and most peaceful ever the former Soviet untry. * gay pride parade kiev *
For ee real time breakg news alerts sent straight to your box sign up to our breakg news emailsSign up to our ee breakg news emailsThoands of people marched through Kiev for the annual gay pri para, markg the biggt turn out the Ukraian pal has ever Sunday the cy saw 8, 000 atten, among them policians and foreign diplomats, participate the celebratn, an crease om 5, 000 last this year’s atten was Judh Gough, the Brish ambassador to Ukrae, who shared photos of herself and other ambassadors at the march. KIEV (Rters) - Ukraian policians and foreign diplomats joed thoands marchg a gay pri para Kiev on Sunday, the biggt and most peaceful ever the former Soviet of people, many drsed bright lors, parad along streets the center of the Ukraian pal, holdg up banners sayg “Diversy is betiful”, “Human rights = happy untry”, “No vlence - y rights! ” were flanked by a thick rdon of police helmets but there was no sign of vlence spe the prence of a few hundred ’s march Kiev was part of “Pri Month” celebrated by lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) people around the world.
Rlana Panhnyk, one of the anizers of the pal’s annual gay pri march, told journalists after the event that about 8, 000 people had attend far more than 5, 000 last year. Embassy Ukrae, wrote a tweet: “We stand wh all Ukraians strivg for equaly and non-discrimatn” ernment has creased support for LGBT rights sce a Wtern-backed learship me to power 2014, but crics say homophobic attus rema relatively 47% of Ukraians thk that rights of sexual mori should be limed while 37.
Vlence epted when marchers at Ukrae's Gay Pri Para fell unr attack by far-right activists.
UKRAE HOSTS BIGGT EVER GAY PRI PARA
Masha Gsen reports on the vlent attacks on the Kiev Gay Pri Para. * gay pride parade kiev *
” Here the Right Sector seems to see eye-to-eye wh the enemy Mosw, which has long claimed that Ukrae's move wtward will expand the fluence of the homosexual of the marchers who me on Saturday had also been at the 2013-2014 protts Maidan Nezalezhnosti, Kiev's central square, that ultimately toppled the untry's old pro-Mosw ernment. The police were beatg back gay-bashers, some of them drsed the Right Sector's black T-shirts and others mouflage uniforms. As the police led back the gay-bashers they had taed, some of whom screamed “Death to the faggots!
SOLDIERS JO BIGGT GAY PRI MARCH UKRAE
Kiev (AFP) – Troops ary uniform joed more than 8,000 people marchg Kiev’s Gay Pri para amid tight secury on Sunday, the * gay pride parade kiev *
Kiev (AFP) – Troops ary uniform joed more than 8, 000 people marchg Kiev’s Gay Pri para amid tight secury on Sunday, the biggt ever annual celebratn of diversy ex-Soviet Ukrae. Some 1, 000 far-right and Orthodox activists, who were kept away om the marchers, held up anti-gay banners and shouted “Shame!
THE PERILS OF STAGG A GAY PRI MARCH UKRAE
KyivPri 2021 has been postponed due to ronavis. A new date has yet to be nfirmed. Gay Pri Ukrae. * gay pride parade kiev *
– ‘Lots of homophob’ –. Activists at the para said that thgs have been gradually improvg for gay people Ukrae.
But homophobia is still monplace, even though Kiev thori have allowed gay pri march to be held, unlike neighbourg Rsia. He said more gay soldiers wanted to jo the event but uld not leave the ontle eastern Ukrae, addg that life for gay soldiers was tough. “There are lots of homophob and bee of the homophob and their homophobic manrs the people nnot e out, ” he said televised remarks.
Rlana Panhnyk, head of KyivPri, which anis the para, said the marchers felt safe spe the prence of the anti-gay protters.
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Some of the anti-gay protters said a untry at war should not be holdg such events. “Me and many of my brothers would not want our children to be gay or lbian, ” add 21-year-old Semen Sokha. But attacks and harassment agast gays and other mori are fairly mon Ukrae and global rights groups have prevly slammed “an atmosphere of total impuny” the Wtern-backed natn.
The first gay Pri event Kyiv took place 2016 and only a uple of thoand people attend.