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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- LGBTQ REFUGE FLEEG UKRAE FACE DISCRIMATN UNTRI WH ANTI-GAY LAWS
- UKRAE HOLDS LARGT GAY PRI EVENT TO DATE KIEV
- FILE:GAY PRI FLAG OF
- LGBTQ REFUGE FLEEG UKRAE FACE DISCRIMATN UNTRI WH ANTI-GAY LAWS
LGBTQ REFUGE FLEEG UKRAE FACE DISCRIMATN UNTRI WH ANTI-GAY LAWS
It appears to have been first posted by a Twter acunt that ed a gay slur s handle on May 22 rponse to a tweet om an anti-racism group that ed the hashtag #diversyisourstrength. As Natnal Geographic noted, was mon to e the acronym LGB the 1990s to refer to lbian, gay and bisexual people. Named the "Gay Pri Flag" by the advocy group OutRight Actn Internatnal, the origal rabow flag wh eight lors was signed by Gilbert Baker for the 1978 Gay Freedom Day Para San Francis.
PoliFact's lg: FalseHere's why: An image of an LGBTQ pri flag that rporated Ukrae’s yellow and blue lors is circulatg on social media as if were an official gay pri flag, wh ers sharg the image and mockg the addn. ""I’m startg to thk this isn’t about gay rights anymore, " a person on Twter said. "The image appears to have origated wh a Twter acunt wh a gay slur s handle as a means of mockg LGBTQ activists’ efforts to monstrate people are faiar wh the rabow flag as a symbol of gay rights and the LGBTQ muny.
June is the tradnal month when gay pri is celebrated and rabow flags abound.
UKRAE HOLDS LARGT GAY PRI EVENT TO DATE KIEV
In 2018, trans activists add a chevron and more lors to the rabow flag and lled the progrs pri flag, to specifilly clu transgenr people, people of lor and AIDS associated wh and ed by the LGBTQ muny have been a state of evolutn sce the origal rabow flag was created by Gilbert Baker for the 1978 Gay Freedom Day Para San Francis.
It’s important to note that there isn’t one official gay pri flag. An image of an LGBTQ pri flag that rporated Ukrae’s yellow and blue lors is circulatg on social media as if were an official gay pri flag, wh ers sharg the image and mockg the addn.
"I’m startg to thk this isn’t about gay rights anymore, " a person on Twter said. The image appears to have origated wh a Twter acunt wh a gay slur s handle as a means of mockg LGBTQ activists’ efforts to monstrate clivy. Many people are faiar wh the rabow flag as a symbol of gay rights and the LGBTQ muny.
FILE:GAY PRI FLAG OF
Flags associated wh and ed by the LGBTQ muny have been a state of evolutn sce the origal rabow flag was created by Gilbert Baker for the 1978 Gay Freedom Day Para San Francis. 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.
LGBTQ REFUGE FLEEG UKRAE FACE DISCRIMATN UNTRI WH ANTI-GAY LAWS
"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. The image circulated wh the ptn, "The pronoun people have now add yellow and blue strip to show support for Ukrae But gay marriage is banned Ukrae Awkward...
Acrdg to OutRight Actn Internatnal, an LGBTIQ human rights non-ernmental anizatn, the origal Pri flag, which has eight lors reprentg the rabow, was created by Amerin artist, signer, and activist, Gilbert Baker for the 1978 "Gay Freedom Day Para" San Francis.
Image source, EPAThoands have marched through the Ukraian pal for s annual gay pri event, the largt and most peaceful the untry has seen. Followg this show of pri, as Queerty not, Kyiv Pri had to face a wave of homophobic hatred and ments om ter ers accg the associatn of “vandalism”, “gradatn” or even “beg s and shame”, wh some notg that the flag was hung on Father’s Day.