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Amerin gay uple ridg Ukrae wre about their experience this difficult new natn. * kiev gay life *

I get this horrible imprsn readg some articl, that the former USSR, 's a batn of discrimatn and ocsnal vlence outsi, and htlers (both gay and "gay-for-pay") the clubs.

Click below to disver the bt adult entertament Kiev (Kyiv) Kiev (Kyiv) UkraeThe pal Kiev (Kyiv) is the ma centre of gay and lbian life Ukrae. Whilst discrimatn agast LGBT people the workplace was outlawed 2015 and Ukrae has moved closer to Wtern valu, is te to say homophobia remas wispread. The film won’t say , but a post-creds punchle about Ken’s handwrg, plete wh hearts and stars surroundg his name, tells what we need to heavily implied nature of Ken’s gayns Toy Story 3 harkens back to Hollywood’s tradnal gay bt iend-type characters.

In the Hays Co era, explic referenc to homosexualy weren’t allowed, so characters like Van Buren (Frankl Pangborn) 1937’s Easy Livg, Kip (David Wayne) 1949’s Adam’s Rib, or Addison (Gee Sanrs) 1950’s All About Eve stead were imbued wh effemate characteristics, offerg a glimpse outsi of heteronormativy whout explicly beg of the characters were the same—some were tty, others sweet.

KEN HAS ALWAYS BEEN BARBIE’S GAY BT FRIEND—NOT HER BOYIEND

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Des later, 2010, the gay bt iend was all the rage; Teen Vogue even went so far as to proclaim the GBF as the summer’s mt-have accsory. In movi like Mean Girls (2004), The Devil Wears Prada (2006), Easy A (2010), No Strgs Attached (2011), and Isn’t It Romantic (2019), gay iends exist entirely the orb of their female iends.

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” But Barbie do, and for Ken, that’s are plenty of reasons why the film wouldn’t outrightly state that Ken is homosexual.

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Mattel, of urse, vehemently nied any claims that Ken was gay, let alone that he had somethg as prepostero as a ck rg around his neck. As a rult, gay men bought the doll drov, and spe Mattel ultimately rellg the doll and wipg away any trace of Earrg Magic Ken, was near-impossible to see Ken as anythg but the glor homosexual he was born to be om then on. Though Mattel don’t seem to be willg to say Ken is actually gay, the Ken dolls of recent years seem to really lean to Ken’s queerns.

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While there is no way to “drs gay, ” there are several dolls that seem to suggt otherwise, such as:Fashnista Ken #193, who looks very exced to tell you about his new obssn, Troye Sivan;Travel Ken Doll, who has a satchel perfect for bathho and a purple overnight bag that lerally proclaims he’s “extra;”Ken Looks Doll, servg “I’m gonna give you a makeover”-type realns while sportg black pleather pants;This Ken, who wears the least heterosexual double nim I have a feelg the new Barbie movie will put the work to nvce that Ken is a hetero du who lov nothg life more than Barbie herself, the wrg’s already on the wall: Ken is, and always will be, Barbie’s gay bt obssg! Jacksonville Jaguars assistant strength and ndng ach Kev Maxen cid on Thursday to e out publicly as gay hop of livg his life whout fear and to spire others.

Before jog Jacksonville’s achg staff, he was a strength ach for the football teams at Baylor and Febary 2022, Maxen reached out to NFL player Carl Nassib, who me out as gay 2021, to seek advice. El rte pelo que lleva, afirma, podría ser motivo que le moltaran o le llamasen gay en Crimea, “una sociedad cerrada y vlenta”.

GAY UKRAE: THE LOL LGBTQ+ COMMUNY STGGL FOR VISIBILY

From the far reach on the stepp of Eurasia, a Amerin gay uple ridg Ukrae wre about their experience this difficult new natn: “For the gay male tourist, you are tly the land of betiful boys (no attu and no body fascism). Kiev boasts a lively gay dis, sna, a few simple bars, even a nu/gay part of our very own “beach” along the Dnipro river…” Wh slow and reful luck a “Gay Life Ukrae” n quietly be achieved.

Consensual male homosexual anal terurse was punished by imprisonment of up to three years (Article 122 of the Penal Co of the Ukraian Soviet Socialist Republic).

Although Soviet legislatn has moved the gay populatn to the edge of social life, gay men had several advantag those years (excludg the Stal perd of Soviet history of urse). Beg on the wave of general mocratic mov the Soviet society gay liberatn gave polil birth to such well-known and disputable lears as Roman Kal or Valeria Debryanskaya. However the Ukrae was the first among the former Soviet republics to repeal crimal rponsibily for non-vlent male homosexual terurse between adults.

‘I’M GAY UKRAE & MY UNTRY SPIS ME’

So this year we anticipate celebratg a full sce the Repeal of crimal prosecutn for nsensual homosexual terurse between adult men our untry. Frh tablished gay liberatn groups such as Lilia Taranenko’s “Hanymed” Kiev or Oxana Bocharnikova’s Foundatn Kharkov (aka “Pk Panther Group”) haven’t ga any thory among gay populatn bee of s fear to be exposed.

Associatn of gays, lbians and bisexuals of Nila “Liga” was registered December 1996 but unr the prsure of thori has to stop wh activy.

The typil feature of gay activism Ukrae the years (after disillnment mass gay liberatn anizatns such as Associatn”Hanymed” or Bocharnikova’s Foundatn) was the appearance of numero impostors posg as the lears of Ukraian gay movement. Realizg for sure that no gay movement will be possible Kuchma’s Ukrae, they noticed that there are many philanthropic stutns Wtern untri willg to support gay liberatn procs FSU.

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The world gay muny greets them wh cheers avoidg the obv tth: the only te tentn of the impostors is to e faster to Wtern money.

For now the Ukraian gay movement has to be unrground and if you ever hear about gay anizatns this untry or such actns like CSD-celebratns or Gay Pri paras, be sure that people who report them are tellg the tth: they ually do wh aim to obta the money tend for “Ukraian gay liberatn”. There are some wonrful s to see (Church, non-touristy post-Soviet ways of livg), a young and non-attu gay scene, and most importantly, warm and genuely iendly, non-cynil people.

As long as one don’t try to impose any PC attus about what gay life here should be or how “gay” dividuals should live (not be married, apolil, etc) you will be fe. Someone you pick up or meet at a tra statn or sleazy bar at 2 AM may not be the bt reprentative of the gay muny or untry here. Couple: Basilly, the olr, over 30 more ‘Soviet’ crowd are so different om the younger, empowered, 20-somethg guys many of whom intify as gay the Wtern mol.

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On the other hand, the kd of guys you’d like to meet probably aren’t hangg out at a gay bar the early hours (or they uld, though). Any cultural type events which are popular here would naturally attract a number of gay fellows (the Spartak opera pecially).

Although there are plenty of old timers, there are also newer Christian fundamentalists (imported om the Wt) who are disgted by gays, and would love to eradite them and AIDS. The tabloid prs and media have even done stori on a gay uple adoptg children, known gay Ukraian celebri, tillatg stori about the Gay Gam or a gay Pri para somewhere else.

As our web se mentns, there is a thrivg gay expat group which also clus a few wterners wh long term lol Ukraian boyiends or girliends. KAMPALA, Uganda — Members of Uganda’s LGBTQ muny are shock and fear beg arrted after Parliament passed a measure that would make a crime to intify as gay and impose tough sentenc that clu the ath penalty certa s, an activist said “Anti-Homosexualy Bill, 2023” was passed wh a near-unanimo majory by lawmakers  the east Ain untry, where anti-gay sentiment ns ep. Ronald Kabuubi / APThe legislatn will next be sent to Print Yoweri Meveni, who has repeatedly nounced homosexualy, to be signed to Mugisha, one of a few Ugandans who live openly as gay, told Rters he was sred the measure would trigger “mass arrts of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer persons and mob vlence toward LGBTQ muni.

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There’s gog to be a lot of trma and s of mental health that will lead to a lot of suici, ” he relatns were already illegal Uganda, but supporters of the new law say is need to punish a broar array of LGBTQ activi, which they say threaten tradnal valu the nservative and relig East Ain measure clus steep sentenc that clu ath for “aggravated homosexualy” and life prison for same-sex relatns. Aggravated homosexualy volv same-sex relatns wh people unr age 18 or when the perpetrator is HIV-posive, among other tegori, acrdg to the legislatn.

The geographic lotn of Ukrae, sandwiched between Poland and Rsia, is almost ditive of the current suatn of the LGBTQ+ Communy and how is to be gay the East European untry. After travelg as a sgle woman traveler to Vietnam, Myanmar, Cambodia, the Republic of Geia, Lebanon, Rsia, and Moldova, she is now analyzg how is to be LGBTQ+ and gay Ukrae and other LGBTQ+ topics for our blog Couple of Men.

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However, any form of same-sex relatnship is not regnized before the law, and the adoptn of children is also possible only as an dividual, but not as a gay or lbian uple. A draft law on hate crim motivated by homophobia and transphobia is currently beg discsed, as is the possibily of havg same-sex relatnships regnized as partnerships.

GAY DATG UKRAE

The Berl-based Spartac rms LGBTQ+ and queer travelers about how gay-iendly a holiday statn is acrdg to several rankg factors and creria.

Although homosexualy is not officially illegal Rsia – same-sex sexual acts have been legal sce 1993 – a law was passed 2013 that crimaliz speakg posively about homosexualy the prence of mors. Likewise, femists are currently creasgly often the target of vlence bee their mands are ntrary to the ‘tradnal’ valu of radil groups and are unrstood as homosexual propaganda. In the shadow of Rsia’s asslt on queer muni, intil stori were beg told about gay people stgglg wh risg vlence and state-led opprsn, om Belas and Ukrae, to Geia, Armenia and Moldova.

When Poli Europe published my op-ed article “I’m gay Ukrae and my untry spis me” (below) I wasn’t surprised by the hate msag and the ual ath threats.

SOLDIERS JO BIGGT GAY PRI MARCH UKRAE

After watchg the terview, most visors avoid makg eye ntact wh me — not surprisg a untry where more than 70 percent still nsir homosexualy a disease.

Dpe rampant homophobia among lol polil el, Yuriy Lutsenko, the Parliament’s majory lear and head of Print Poroshenko’s parliamentary group, tried to nvce the media that the reason there was no nsens on the anti-discrimatn clse was jt bee — well, no LGBTI discrimatn exists Ukrae. Last year the European Commissn silently backed down before the homophobic Ukraian ernment and dched a ccial LGBTI anti-discrimatn provisn for the lol labor om bilateral talks.

KEN HAS ALWAYS BEEN BARBIE’S GAY BT FRIEND—NOT HER BOYIENDBARBIE’S BELOVED BEARD?FOR YEARS, PEOPLE HAVE QUTNED WHAT ROLE KEN REALLY PLAYS BARBIE’S LIFE. BUT THE TTH IS PLA SIGHT: KEN’S NOT BOYIEND MATERIAL. AT LEAST, NOT FOR BARBIE.BARRY LEVTFREELANCE WRERPUBLISHED JUL. 21, 2023 4:35AM EDT PHOTO ILLTRATN BY THE DAILY BEAST/GETTYIT’S BARBIE WEEK AT THE DAILY BEAST’S OBSSED, CELEBRATG THE DOLL’S POP-CULTURE HISTORY, OUR FAVORE BARBIE MEMORI, AND A CERTA MAJOR MOVIE. READ ALL OF OUR VERAGE HERE!“SHE’S EVERYTHG. HE’S JT KEN.” THAT’S THE TAGLE FOR THE WILDLY ANTICIPATED BARBIE MOVIE, DIRECTED BY GRETA GERWIG AND STARRG MARGOT ROBBIE AND RYAN GOSLG. THE IMPLITN IS CLEAR: COME FOR BARBIE, AND STAY FOR BARBIE… BUT KEN HAPPENS TO BE THERE TOO.KEN HAS LONG BEEN SEEN AS NOTHG BUT BARBIE’S HUMAN ACCSORY, BUT WASN’T ALWAYS THIS WAY FOR THE POOR MISUNRSTOOD DOLL. WHEN KEN WAS FIRST TRODUCED 1961, HIS FIRST MERCIAL TRIED TO POSN HIM AS BARBIE’S EQUAL AND, UNMISTAKABLY, BOYIEND. “GET BOTH BARBIE AND KEN AND SEE WHERE THE ROMANCE WILL LEAD!” THE MERCIAL PROMISED.SCE THEN, LIKE BARBIE, KEN HAS UNRGONE UNTLS TRANSFORMATNS AND FASHNS. BUT AS TIME WENT ON, KEN FOUND HIMSELF AN AFTERTHOUGHT. TOYMAKERS MATTEL NEVER GAVE HIM THE SAME KD OF BACKSTORI AS BARBIE—WHILE SHE’S HAD OVER 200 REERS, KEN HAS HAD JT SOME 40-ODD PROFSNS. (AN CREDIBLE AMOUNT OF JOBS FOR A PERSON, SURE. BUT FOR A DOLL? EMBARRASSG.) BARBIE HAS STARRED LOTS OF VIO GAM AND MORE THAN THREE DOZEN FILMS; KEN HAS HAD A MAJOR ROLE A MERE HANDFUL OF THEM. BUT THERE’S ONE KEY REASON WHY KEN IS ALWAYS LAGGG SIGNIFINTLY BEHD BARBIE AND 'S A LOT EPER THAN THE DOLL’S SEEMG LACK OF POPULARY: KEN HAS BEEN MISST. HE’S NOT BARBIE’S BOYIEND. HE’S BARBIE’S GAY BT IEND.DPE MATTEL’S SISTENCE THAT BARBIE AND KEN ARE A HAPPY ROMANTIC RELATNSHIP, THERE’S PLENTY OF SPECULATN ABOUT KEN’S SEXUALY. EVEN IF HIS MAKERS CLAIM HIM TO BE STRAIGHT, THERE’S MOUNTG PROOF TO THE NTRARY. PERHAPS THE MOST DISPUTABLE EVINCE THAT KEN IS FACT BOTH A MEMBER OF THE QUEER MUNY AND BARBIE’S BTIE, NOT BOY TOY, OM A RATHER SURPRISG PLACE: 2010’S TOY STORY 3.IN TOY STORY 3, BARBIE AND KEN PLAY A SURPRISGLY LARGE ROLE. THEIR TRODUCTN TO THE FILM IS TGED WH ROMANTIC TENSN. WHEN THE PAIR MEET, THE FILM VOK A MON TROPE: A ROMANTIC NEEDLE DROP HS THE MOMENT THE LOVERS LOCK EY. IN THIS SE, ’S “DREAM WEAVER” BY GARY WRIGHT. AS FAR AS BARBIE AND KEN ARE NCERNED, THEY’RE THE ONLY ON THE ROOM. “I LOVE YOUR LEG WARMERS!” KEN TELLS BARBIE. “NICE AST,” SHE BANTERS, WH HEAVY EMPHASIS ON THE FIRST SYLLABLE. BEFORE THGS GET TOO HEATED, THEY LOCK ARMS AND WALK OFF TOGETHER. PHOTO ILLTRATN BY KELLY CAMERO / THE DAILY BEAST / GETTY LET’S BE HONT—SPE THE ROMANTIC OVERTON OF THE SCENE, THEIR BRIEF EXCHANGE TELLS EVERYTHG ABOUT HOW THEY SEE EACH OTHER. KEN DON’T MENTN ANYTHG ABOUT BARBIE’S BODY, STEAD HIGHLIGHTG HER LEG WARMERS. BUT BARBIE IS UNSUBTLY TRYG TO SCE KEN JT TWO WORDS. SHE’S AFTER KEN, BUT KEN IS AFTER SOMEONE WHOSE CLOTH HE N ADMIRE.SURE, LATER THE FILM, KEN AND BARBIE SAY “I LOVE YOU” TO EACH OTHER. AND THEY GO BACK AND FORTH BETWEEN SAYG EACH WORD OF “I LOVE YOU”—SO SOMEONE DIFFERENT N SAY “LOVE” EACH TIME, AS KEN EXPLAS. HE MENTNS OFFHAND THAT HE HAS EVERYTHG EXCEPT SOMEONE TO SHARE WH. BARBIE AND KEN EVEN NUZZLE THEIR NOS TOGETHER. Y, THERE’S FELY LOVE BETWEEN IENDS—BUT THROUGH ALL, THERE’S NOT A HT OF SEXUAL CHEMISTRY.LOOK, I KNOW WHAT YOU’RE THKG—SIR, THIS IS TOY STORY; WHAT EXACTLY ARE YOU EXPECTG? IF YOU LOOK AT OTHER ROMANC THE ANCHISE—WOODY AND BO PEEP, AND JSE AND BUZZ—THERE’S NO DOUBT THAT THERE’S REAL LOVE THERE BETWEEN THE SENTIENT TOYS. THEIR PASSN FOR ONE ANOTHER TRANSCENDS MORE THAN SIMPLY BEG TERTED EACH OTHER’S OUTFS. THE SAME NNOT BE SAID OF THE MATTEL DOLLS. THAT’S MA EVINT WHEN KEN FALLY GETS AN OPPORTUNY FOR TIMACY WH BARBIE. “THIS IS WHERE THE MAGIC HAPPENS,” HE TELLS BARBIE WHEN THEY FALLY GO TO HIS DREAMHOE TOGETHER, HAVG PARENTS ALL OVER THE WORLD CLUTCHG THEIR PEARLS. BUT FEAR NOT: KEN SIMPLY TAK BARBIE TO… HIS WALK- WARDROBE. ANY SEMBLANCE OF ROMANCE MAK WAY FOR IENDSHIP, WHEN THE PAIR JUBILANTLY PESE KEN’S OUTFS. AND STEAD OF DOG SOMETHG WILD LIKE KISSG BARBIE, KEN PUTS ON A FASHN SHOW FOR HER STEAD. THE FILM WON’T SAY , BUT A POST-CREDS PUNCHLE ABOUT KEN’S HANDWRG, PLETE WH HEARTS AND STARS SURROUNDG HIS NAME, TELLS WHAT WE NEED TO KNOW.THE HEAVILY IMPLIED NATURE OF KEN’S GAYNS TOY STORY 3 HARKENS BACK TO HOLLYWOOD’S TRADNAL GAY BT IEND-TYPE CHARACTERS. IN THE HAYS CO ERA, EXPLIC REFERENC TO HOMOSEXUALY WEREN’T ALLOWED, SO CHARACTERS LIKE VAN BUREN (FRANKL PANGBORN) 1937’S EASY LIVG, KIP (DAVID WAYNE) 1949’S ADAM’S RIB, OR ADDISON (GEE SANRS) 1950’S ALL ABOUT EVE STEAD WERE IMBUED WH EFFEMATE CHARACTERISTICS, OFFERG A GLIMPSE OUTSI OF HETERONORMATIVY WHOUT EXPLICLY BEG QUEER.NONE OF THE CHARACTERS WERE THE SAME—SOME WERE TTY, OTHERS SWEET. SOME HAD ULTERR MOTIV, AND OTHERS OFFERED UNNDNAL SUPPORT. BUT EACH OF THE GAY BT IENDS WAS TRSILLY FED BY THEIR RELATNSHIPS WH THEIR STRAIGHT IENDS. WE NEVER REALLY LEARNED MUCH ABOUT THEM AS DIVIDUALS. THEY LIVED ON THE MARGS, FLHG OUT THEIR STRAIGHT UNTERPARTS, HARDLY HAVG A PURPOSE WHOUT THEM; THAT PORTRAYAL REMAS TE TODAY. PHOTO ILLTRATN BY KELLY CAMERO / THE DAILY BEAST / PHOTOS BY GETTY / WARNER BROS. DES LATER, 2010, THE GAY BT IEND WAS ALL THE RAGE; TEEN VOGUE EVEN WENT SO FAR AS TO PROCLAIM THE GBF AS THE SUMMER’S MT-HAVE ACCSORY. BUT UNLIKE THE FIRST HALF OF THE 20TH CENTURY, TODAY’S CEMA, THE GBF IS ALLOWED TO BE OPENLY GAY. AT THE SAME TIME, THEY STILL BARELY REGISTER AS PEOPLE WH CHARACTER TRAS BEYOND THEIR RELATNSHIPS WH THEIR STRAIGHT UNTERPARTS. IN MOVI LIKE MEAN GIRLS (2004), THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA (2006), EASY A (2010), NO STRGS ATTACHED (2011), AND ISN’T IT ROMANTIC (2019), GAY IENDS EXIST ENTIRELY THE ORB OF THEIR FEMALE IENDS. IT’S SUCH A STRONG TROPE THAT EVEN PERSISTS QUEER ROMANTIC EDI: 2020’S HAPPIT SEASON FDS JOHN (DAN LEVY) OFFERG ADVICE AND SNARKY ONE-LERS TO HIS LBIAN BTIE LI OF MEANGFUL CHARACTER VELOPMENT.IN TOY STORY 3, THE SAME IS TE OF KEN. HIS EXISTENCE PENDS ON AND CIRCULAT AROUND BARBIE. IN BARBIE, KEN HAS FOUND SOMEONE WHO REALLY UNRSTANDS HIM. HE DON’T GET ALONG WH THE OTHER TOYS, WHO MOCK HIM FOR BEG A “GIRL'S TOY.” BUT BARBIE LOV FASHN, JT LIKE HE DO. “NO ONE APPRECIAT CLOTH HERE, BARBIE,” KEN LAMENTS TO BARBIE, ABOUT THE OTHER TOYS’ TREATMENT OF HIM. “NO ONE!” BUT BARBIE DO, AND FOR KEN, THAT’S LIFE-CHANGG.THERE ARE PLENTY OF REASONS WHY THE FILM WOULDN’T OUTRIGHTLY STATE THAT KEN IS HOMOSEXUAL. NOT ONLY DO DISNEY SELF HAVE A PLITED HISTORY WH QUEER CHARACTERS, BUT KEN AND BARBIE ARE ALSO THE PROPERTY OF MATTEL, WHICH HAS ALWAYS BEEN STEADFAST ASSERTG KEN’S HETEROSEXUALY. THAT’S NEVER BEEN CLEARER THAN 1993 WHEN THE TOY PANY TRIED TO REIGNE KEN’S POPULARY MATTEL’S SOLUTN? EARRG MAGIC KEN. EARRG MAGIC KEN WAS A FIERCER, FELY MORE QUEER KEN THAN EVER BEFORE. THIS VERSN OF THE DOLL HAD BLEACHED BLON HAIR, A PURPLE LEATHER VT (!), A PK-PURPLE MH TOP (!!), AND OF URSE, AND EARRG THE “GAY EAR”. BUT THAT’S NOT ALL: AROUND KEN’S NECK WAS SOMETHG THAT ANY ACTIVE PARTICIPANT OF THE QUEER SCENE THE ’90S REGNIZED STANTLY—A CK RG (!!!).THE EARRG MAGIC KEN TURNED BARBIE’S BOYIEND TO AN OUT-AND-PROUD HOMOSEXUAL RAVER. MATTEL, OF URSE, VEHEMENTLY NIED ANY CLAIMS THAT KEN WAS GAY, LET ALONE THAT HE HAD SOMETHG AS PREPOSTERO AS A CK RG AROUND HIS NECK. AS LISA MCKENDALL, FORMER MANAGER OF MARKETG AND MUNITNS, SAID AN TERVIEW ABOUT THE DOLL, “WE’RE NOT THE BS OF PUTTG CK RGS TO THE HANDS OF LTLE GIRLS.”REGARDLS OF MATTEL’S TENTNS, ’S HARD TO NY WHAT THE EYE N SEE. DPE THE NAME, CK RGS AT THE TIME WERE ED AS A FASHN ACCSORY AND A SIGN OF FIANT QUEERNS AND SEX POSIVY. AS A RULT, GAY MEN BOUGHT THE DOLL DROV, AND SPE MATTEL ULTIMATELY RELLG THE DOLL AND WIPG AWAY ANY TRACE OF EARRG MAGIC KEN, WAS NEAR-IMPOSSIBLE TO SEE KEN AS ANYTHG BUT THE GLOR HOMOSEXUAL HE WAS BORN TO BE OM THEN ON. MATTEL SPENT THE NEXT UPLE OF S TRYG TO RETA KEN’S MORE HETERONORMATIVE, MASCULE IMAGE, BUT THE VEIL WAS LIFTED, AND THERE WAS NO GOG BACK. PHOTO ILLTRATN BY KELLY CAMERO/THE DAILY BEAST/PHOTOS BY GETTY/WARNER BROS. THOUGH MATTEL DON’T SEEM TO BE WILLG TO SAY KEN IS ACTUALLY GAY, THE KEN DOLLS OF RECENT YEARS SEEM TO REALLY LEAN TO KEN’S QUEERNS. THE YASSIFITN OF KEN IS CLEARLY UNRWAY. WHILE THERE IS NO WAY TO “DRS GAY,” THERE ARE SEVERAL DOLLS THAT SEEM TO SUGGT OTHERWISE, SUCH AS:FASHNISTA KEN #193, WHO LOOKS VERY EXCED TO TELL YOU ABOUT HIS NEW OBSSN, TROYE SIVAN;TRAVEL KEN DOLL, WHO HAS A SATCHEL PERFECT FOR BATHHO AND A PURPLE OVERNIGHT BAG THAT LERALLY PROCLAIMS HE’S “EXTRA;”KEN LOOKS DOLL, SERVG “I’M GONNA GIVE YOU A MAKEOVER”-TYPE REALNS WHILE SPORTG BLACK PLEATHER PANTS;THIS KEN, WHO WEARS THE LEAST HETEROSEXUAL DOUBLE NIM IMAGABLE.WHILE I HAVE A FEELG THE NEW BARBIE MOVIE WILL PUT THE WORK TO NVCE THAT KEN IS A HETERO DU WHO LOV NOTHG LIFE MORE THAN BARBIE HERSELF, THE WRG’S ALREADY ON THE WALL: KEN IS, AND ALWAYS WILL BE, BARBIE’S GAY BT IEND.KEEP OBSSG! SIGN UP FOR THE DAILY BEAST’S OBSSED NEWSLETTER AND FOLLOW ON FACEBOOK, TWTER, INSTAGRAM AND TIKTOK.READ MORE OF OUR BARBIE VERAGE HERE. BARRY LEVT

But on the same day the ban on Ossa’s pri para was troduced, Pavlo Unguryan, a member of the Ukraian Parliament, n go on live TV Ossa and ll homosexualy “a treatable disease” and acce gay people of pedophilia.

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La un joven 16 años, Dima, que n un batiburrillo documentos sos y ucrans <a href=" target="_blank">ha pado la península Crimea, ocupada por Moscú s 2014, </a>y ha llegado hace unos días a Kiev, don ahora vive n su hermano. Para llegar a la pal ucrania, tuvo que viajar cuatro días a través tr país (Ria, Turquía y Moldavia). Un roo necar para salir la península que forma parte Ucrania, pero tá bajo ntrol so, y regrar a terror que parte l mismo país. De su ttimon se spren que no ja atrás una dictadura feroz, pero sí un sistema que trata anular la intidad, la historia y la cultura ucrania.</p><p class="">La gran preocupación muchos ucrans o Dima la abar obligados a ponerse un uniforme so por vivir en zona ocupada y abar disparando a s patrtas. Pe a que todavía menor edad, o lo que más atormenta a Dima (nombre fictic elegido por él mismo para te reportaje por motivos seguridad). “Huiría mpo a través si hiciera falta”, asegura. Ya tiene nocidos que, recién cumplidos los 20 años, tán enrolados en las fuerzas ocupación y operando en la veca región Jersón.</p><p class="">El mismo temor afecta a jóven y hombr que viven en otras zonas Ucrania ocupadas por Moscú, o part las regn Lugansk, Dosk, Zaporiyia y Jersón. <a href=" target="_blank">Allí también se tá imponiendo la sifición n el reparto pasaport</a> las toridas vasoras o ndición para brar pensn, pagar recibos o realizar operacn banrias. “Inclo en el leg nos daban panfletos para lavarnos el cerebro”, aña el joven.</p><p class="">El plan huida, arezado n el irrenunciable seo regrar en cuanto sea posible a la que su ciudad natal, Sebastopol, forma parte un proco cado a fuego lento a partir un sentimiento rechazo a una vida forzada bajo la banra trilor sa. <a href=" target="_blank">Dima tenía siete años cuando los sos ocuparon Crimea </a>y no recuerda “si nada” aquel asalto, pero según expli, ha hecho lo posible por mantener el vínculo n Ucrania y pletar una ción ntro su sistema. Ansejado por su faia, llevaba cuatro años tudiando a distancia bajo el sistema tivo Ucrania, al tiempo que acudía prencialmente a las clas imputas en Crimea por el Mister Edución so.</p><p class="">Durante la entrevista n te periódi en un lol Kiev, Dima saborea, uno tras otro, vars vasos Pepsi Cola, para él un lujo hasta ahora accible en med las imacn sas los res tadounins. “Con el ienzo la vasión el año pasado, empezaron a llegar a Crimea <i>las</i> fabridas en Ucrania que robaban tablecimientos Jersón”, expli mientras enseña una foto una las latas en su móvil. “Se podían prar en pequeños ercs”, señala.</p><p class="">Po a po su vida se va adaptando a la pal. En pos días hará las pebas acco a la universidad n ia tudiar Enómis o Relacn Internacnal. A las toridas tivas Kiev l sorprendió que exhibiera para matricularse un certifido nacimiento en Crimea y s notas un centro lar la región Dosk. De hecho, nque haya vivido bajo la ocupación sa la península más media vida, la guerra iciada el año pasado abó por afectar a su formación adémi. El primer centro en el que se matriculó para cursar a distancia el sistema ucran se hallaba en la lolidad Volnovaja (Dosk), stida el año pasado y hoy en pleno ente batalla. Así, te último curso <a href=" target="_blank">tuvo que seguirlo en un leg Sloviansk, en a misma región.</a> De a forma, prentándose a los exámen s Sebastopol, ha nseguido su certifido notas Ucrania.</p><sectn data-ctn-subscriptn="te" class="w w-cta " id="cta_id"><div class="w_t"></div><div class="w_b"><div class="w_tx">Úe a EL PAÍS para seguir toda la actualidad y leer s lím.</div><a class="w_bt btn btn-2 b-sb-geo" data-lk-mx=" data-lk-am=" href="" id="cta_lk_btn_id">Scríbete</a></div></sectn><p class="">Dima llega al encuentro directo s la peluquería. El rte pelo que lleva, afirma, podría ser motivo que le moltaran o le llamasen gay en Crimea, “una sociedad cerrada y vlenta”. Por tall o e, cuenta que quiso “par un régimen” don siempre l taban “apretando las tuers”. En Kiev le ha sorprendido que un pendiente dique tiempo a preguntar por s preferencias o que en la feria l libro una amiga su hermano se haya terado por él y su viaje. “Y no me nocía nada”, rel. “En Sebastopol a nadie le importa el otro, todos van a engañar y a jor al al lado”, sostiene.</p><p class="">Dima salió sa junto a su madre, 47 años, el 18 jun y llegó a Kiev el día 22. Su padre, 46 años, no tiene la oportunidad salir. <a href=" target="_blank">Para evar ser alistado en el ejérco vasor, no tá dado alta ante las toridas Moscú</a> y o le impi viajar fuera.</p><p class="">Dos horas en tobús l permieron llegar s Sebastopol hasta Simferópol. Dpués, viajaron unas 20 horas en tren hasta Sochi (Ria), jando atrás Crimea a través l puente que cza el trecho Kerch, gurado en 2018 por Put para apuntalar la ocupación y atado ta semana por segunda vez. El joven renoce que no tuvieron que pasar ntrol pecial las fuerzas seguridad, pero scribe el vagón o “un fierno s aire andicnado, antiguo y muy soviéti”. Un avión s Sochi l trasladó luego a Estambul. Y ahí empezó a fallar el plan origal la faia. La madre tuvo que dar la vuelta porque en el aeropuerto Estambul no aceptaron su pasaporte so para tomar otro vuelo a Chisáu, la pal Moldavia. Paradójimente, sí logró pasar n un pasaporte so el menor, que siguió alante solo, según relata.</p><p class="">La madre, asora legal empras, trata ahora nseguir uno ucran —lo tenía dudo— para volver a tentar salir Crimea.</p><p class="">El joven llegó solo a la pal moldava, don cuenta que una agente onteras empezó mediato a terrogarle mientras le hurgaba en la maleta. “Todo mbió cuando le dije que era un refugiado ucran saliendo Crimea y que iba a rnirme n mi faia en Kiev. Entonc jó preguntarme y me ayudó a rehacer el equipaje”, expli. Un nductor ntactado por su hermano regió a Dima y lo llevó hasta un paso onterizo Moldavia n Ucrania en la región Chernivtsi. Si n el pasaporte so pudo salir Crimea, n el certifido nacimiento le bastó para accer a Ucrania.</p><p class="">Mientras el día 22 jun alnzaba Kiev por rretera junto a su hermano y su cuñada, Dima <a href=" target="_blank">pudo probar n s props ojos los daños ados por la vasión sa. </a>El vehículo circulaba junto a rtos la batalla y sas y edifics rcidos a bros en el entorno lolidas o Bucha o Makariv. Ese “paisaje guerra”, o él mismo scribe, no lo ha experimentado en Crimea, don los bombaros y choqu entre los dos ejércos se viven en la distancia.</p><p class="">Dima ha experimentado también cómo las alarmas en Kiev advierten todavía hoy n ecuencia posibl ataqu. Apenas dos días spués llegar él, un bombaro n misil abó n la vida c civil. El tendo se cuchó en sa su hermano en med la madgada. “En Sebastopol no hay sirenas”, asegura mientras expli que los sos tratan dar a todo una páta normalidad en la península Crimea.</p><p class="">Allí pera ahora su madre una nueva oportunidad para salir. La ciudad Sebastopol la base la flota sa l mar Negro, una las prcipal herramientas ar Moscú para mantener la península ocupada a buen reudo. De manera paralela, el Kreml po en marcha en 2014 un importante movimiento población s Ria, tanto civil o ar, para mezclarla n la ucrania. Crimea tenía aquel año 2.350.000 habant. A fal 2021, el Gobierno Kiev timaba que al menos 600.000 sos habían llegado a la península en e perdo, lo que impli un mento población l 30%. Dima y su faia lo han notado en su propia unidad vecos, don n ecuencia saltan chispas entre los ucrans y los sos.</p><p class="">Crimea la joya la ocupación sa Ucrania. Kiev siste en que su volución ndición encial para unas nversacn paz. Dima aba llegar a Kiev, pero mantiene en el horizonte su seo regrar a su sa en Sebastopol. Optimista, pera que pueda ser en un año o año y med. <a href=" target="_blank">La ndición que en “Crimea one la banra Ucrania”</a>. 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