LGBT Ukraians terrified of Rsia's war on gay and transgenr people - Los Angel Tim

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• KIEV GAY PRI MARCH ATTACKED, 'HOOLIGANS' ARRTED: UKRAE OFFICIALS
• IN RSIA, GAY PEOPLE ARE ROUTELY TARGETED. THAT’S WHY THIS UKRAIAN SOLDIER IS FIGHTG.
• GAY MEN TARGETED IN BTAL HOMOPHOBIC ATTACK IN KIEV SPEAK OUTVLENCEA GANG OF YOUNG MEN VICLY SET UPON A GROUP OF GAY IENDS UKRAE'S PAL, STABBG ONE WH SUCH FORCE HE REQUIRED SURGERY. THE GANG HAS YET TO BE CHARGED WH ANY CRIME.ANNA NEMTSOVAUPDATED SEP. 08, 2018 3:27AM EDT / PUBLISHED SEP. 07, 2018 7:33PM EDT ALXEYPNFEROVON THURSDAY MORNG AT ABOUT 5 AM, A GROUP OF FIVE UKRAIAN GAY IENDS ME OUT OF A NIGHTCLUB AND STOPPED BY A BENCH ON THE CENTRAL AVENUE OF KHRHCHATYK KIEV TO HAVE A SMOKE AND CHAT. THEY DID NOT KISS, THEY DID NOT HUG. THE IENDS WERE DRSED HIP AND LORFUL SUMMER CLOTH. THERE HAVE BEEN DOZENS OF HOMOPHOBIC ATTACKS UKRAE THE PAST YEAR, AND ANOTHER WAS ABOUT TO UNFOLD THE HEART OF THE UNTRY'S PAL.THREE DNK YOUNG MEN APPROACHED THE IENDS, YELLG: “FAGGOTS! LOOK AT YOUR CLOTH! YOU SHOULD JO THE ARMY, GO TO THE ONT, LIKE OUR FATHERS DO, SO THE WAR TURNS YOU TO REAL MEN!” ONE OF THE GAY MEN, 22-YEAR-OLD YEVGENY OGURTSOV, WAS WEARG A LORFUL T-SHIRT TUCKED A PAIR OF CHECKED PANTS. HIS IEND, 20-YEAR-OLD VLAD YEZDAKOV, ALSO WAS WEARG A PAIR OF HIP PANTS WH “BE THE ONE WHO YOU WANT TO BE” WRTEN ON THEM. OGURTSKOV TRIED TO LM DOWN THE ATTACKERS VA: THE STRANGERS WERE HEATED BY THEIR HATE.TO AVOID AN LATN OF THE VLENCE, THE GAY IENDS TRIED TO WALK AWAY BUT THE ATTACKERS FOLLOWED THEM. ONE OF THEM PULLED OUT A JACKKNIFE AND STABBED OGURTSOV SEVERAL TIM THE CHT. “I SAW HOW YEVGENY FELL DOWN ON THE GROUND, BUT THE THUGS NTUED TO KICK HIM THE FACE,” YEZDAKOV TOLD THE DAILY BEAST ON FRIDAY. “I WAS NOT READY TO SEE SUCH BTAL VLENCE, I WAS TOO SHOCKED TO DO ANYTHG, SO I WAS JT STANDG THERE WATCHG AND THEN WE LLED FOR POLICE AND FOR THE AMBULANCE,” YEZDAKOV REMEMBERED, STILL HAVG TROUBLE TO BELIEVE THAT HE ME SO CLOSE TO LOSG HIS IEND RIGHT THE CENTER OF HIS HOMETOWN, WHICH HE NSIRED SMOPOLAN AND LIBERAL. EVENTUALLY, POLICE ARRTED THE ATTACKERS, WHO SISTED THAT THEY HAD NOT DONE ANYTHG WRONG, THAT THE GAY MEN SERVED TO BE PUNISHED. TWO WERE 17 YEARS OLD, THE ONE WHO STABBED OGURTSOV WAS 20. NO CHARG HAVE YET BEEN BOUGHT AGAST THE ATTACKERS. ON FRIDAY, OGURTSOV WAS REVERG OM TWO SURGERI ON HIS STABBED LUNGS. “UKRAE SHOULD TREAT THE ATTACK ON ME AS A SER PRECENT OF HOMOPHOBIA. THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT FOR OUR FUTURE, FOR PUTTG THE END TO VLENCE,” OGURTSOV TOLD THE DAILY BEAST A PHONE TERVIEW. IT WILL TAKE WEEKS BEFORE OGURTSOV, A PROFSNAL MOL, WILL BE ABLE TO WORK AGA. ”THE THUGS WHO STABBED ME YELLED THAT WE, GAYS, DID NOT SERVE TO LIVE. I HAVE NO DOUBTS THAT THEY ME TO KILL ,” HE SAID.SCE THE EUROMAIDAN REVOLUTN OF 2014, UKRAIAN CIVIL SOCIETY HAS EXPERIENCED UPS AND DOWNS. ONLY A FEW YEARS AGO, 2013, UKRAIAN LGBT PEOPLE ANIZED THEIR FIRST PRI; PEOPLE WHO LIVED THE CLOSET BEFORE THE REVOLUTN OPENED UP, UNED MUNI, AND BEGAN TO SPEAK OUT ABOUT PAFUL EPISOS THEIR LIV, WHICH THEY HAD BURIED SI FOR YEARS.THIS WEEK, AN INTERNATNAL MOARY FUND MISSN ARRIVED UKRAE TO NTUE WORKG ON A $17 BILLN LOAN PROGRAM THAT THE IMF HAS APPROVED FOR KIEV ON THE NDN THAT UKRAE REFORMS S STUTNS, FIGHTS RPTN, AND VELOPS A TRANSPARENT AND SAFE ENVIRONMENT FOR FOREIGN VTORS. BUT UKRAE’S MOCRACY IS DANGER FOR AS LONG AS FAR RIGHT NATNALISTS ATTACK LGBT PEOPLE BOTH THE PAL AND AROUND THE PROVC OF UKRAE.“WE ARE VERY NCERNED ABOUT THE GROWG VLENCE; 2017 WE UNTED 226 HOMOPHOBIC ATTACKS ON LGBT PEOPLE UKRAE,” SOPHIA LAPA, A HUMAN RIGHTS FENR OM THE “OUR WORLD” LGBT ANIZATN TOLD THE DAILY BEAST. FEELG DISILLNED ABOUT THE ERNMENT’S DIFFERENCE TO CREASG HOMOPHOBIA, THE UKRAIAN LGBT MOVEMENT HAS GROWN MORE ANIZED S POLIL STRATEGI. “IT LOOKS LIKE, AS WE GROW MORE ANIZED AND MORE ACTIVE, HATE FOR IS CREASG, TOO,” SAID LAPA. “SO FAR WE HAVE NOT SEEN A SGLE SE UKRAE’S URTS AGAST VLENT HOMOPHOB, SO HOPEFULLY THIS TIME THORI WILL PAY ATTENTN TO THE ATTACK ON OUR IENDS, ON OGURTSOV,” LAPA SAID. ANNA NEMTSOVA
• UKRAE GAY PRI PARA ATTACKED WH STON, SMOKE BOMBS
• NOT EUROPEAN FOR UKRAIAN NAZIS TO ATTACK GAYS, BUT PENSNERS FAIR GAME (VIO)
• GANG OF MASKED NEO-NAZI THUGS VLENTLY ATTACK GAY BAR BONE-CHILLG VIO
• LGBTQ REFUGE FLEEG UKRAE FACE DISCRIMATN UNTRI WH ANTI-GAY LAWS
• RSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH LEAR BLAM INVASN ON UKRAE'S 'GAY PRI'
• HUNGARIAN PRINT VETO ‘SNCH ON YOUR GAY NEIGHBOR’ LAW

KIEV GAY PRI MARCH ATTACKED, 'HOOLIGANS' ARRTED: UKRAE OFFICIALS

Several dozen unknown assailants attacked a gay march Kiev, Ukrae, throwg flar and woundg two policemen, a Rters wns protters attack a policeman durg the Equaly March, anized by the LGBT muny, Kiev, UkraeSTRINGER / RtersJune 6, 2015, 11:07 AM UTC / Updated June 6, 2015, 11:10 AM UTC / Source: RtersKIEV - Several dozen unknown assailants attacked a gay pri rally Kiev on Saturday, throwg flar and woundg two policemen, a Rters wns reported. Ukraian thori have creased their support for LGBT rights sce a new pro-European ernment me to power after last year's 'Maidan' street protts; but crics say homophobic attus rema wispread.

Assailants attacked gay and transgenr rights activists and torched a rabow flag at a small rally the Ukraian cy of Kharkiv. At one pot, an assailant a cigarette lighter to torch a rabow flag -- a symbol of Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr (LGBT) rights -- and holds as burns. Organizers of the rally said they were attemptg to draw attentn to homophobia society.

Several gay-pri paras have been banned Ukrae recent years, but thori have sought to display more tolerance by permtg var LGBT events to take place and providg better protectn. He’s gay, and for him, Put’s Rsia held particular terror. Gay people are routely targeted their, arrted whout e, even tortured.

IN RSIA, GAY PEOPLE ARE ROUTELY TARGETED. THAT’S WHY THIS UKRAIAN SOLDIER IS FIGHTG.

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GAY MEN TARGETED IN BTAL HOMOPHOBIC ATTACK IN KIEV SPEAK OUTVLENCEA GANG OF YOUNG MEN VICLY SET UPON A GROUP OF GAY IENDS UKRAE'S PAL, STABBG ONE WH SUCH FORCE HE REQUIRED SURGERY. THE GANG HAS YET TO BE CHARGED WH ANY CRIME.ANNA NEMTSOVAUPDATED SEP. 08, 2018 3:27AM EDT / PUBLISHED SEP. 07, 2018 7:33PM EDT ALXEYPNFEROVON THURSDAY MORNG AT ABOUT 5 AM, A GROUP OF FIVE UKRAIAN GAY IENDS ME OUT OF A NIGHTCLUB AND STOPPED BY A BENCH ON THE CENTRAL AVENUE OF KHRHCHATYK KIEV TO HAVE A SMOKE AND CHAT. THEY DID NOT KISS, THEY DID NOT HUG. THE IENDS WERE DRSED HIP AND LORFUL SUMMER CLOTH. THERE HAVE BEEN DOZENS OF HOMOPHOBIC ATTACKS UKRAE THE PAST YEAR, AND ANOTHER WAS ABOUT TO UNFOLD THE HEART OF THE UNTRY'S PAL.THREE DNK YOUNG MEN APPROACHED THE IENDS, YELLG: “FAGGOTS! LOOK AT YOUR CLOTH! YOU SHOULD JO THE ARMY, GO TO THE ONT, LIKE OUR FATHERS DO, SO THE WAR TURNS YOU TO REAL MEN!” ONE OF THE GAY MEN, 22-YEAR-OLD YEVGENY OGURTSOV, WAS WEARG A LORFUL T-SHIRT TUCKED A PAIR OF CHECKED PANTS. HIS IEND, 20-YEAR-OLD VLAD YEZDAKOV, ALSO WAS WEARG A PAIR OF HIP PANTS WH “BE THE ONE WHO YOU WANT TO BE” WRTEN ON THEM. OGURTSKOV TRIED TO LM DOWN THE ATTACKERS VA: THE STRANGERS WERE HEATED BY THEIR HATE.TO AVOID AN LATN OF THE VLENCE, THE GAY IENDS TRIED TO WALK AWAY BUT THE ATTACKERS FOLLOWED THEM. ONE OF THEM PULLED OUT A JACKKNIFE AND STABBED OGURTSOV SEVERAL TIM THE CHT. “I SAW HOW YEVGENY FELL DOWN ON THE GROUND, BUT THE THUGS NTUED TO KICK HIM THE FACE,” YEZDAKOV TOLD THE DAILY BEAST ON FRIDAY. “I WAS NOT READY TO SEE SUCH BTAL VLENCE, I WAS TOO SHOCKED TO DO ANYTHG, SO I WAS JT STANDG THERE WATCHG AND THEN WE LLED FOR POLICE AND FOR THE AMBULANCE,” YEZDAKOV REMEMBERED, STILL HAVG TROUBLE TO BELIEVE THAT HE ME SO CLOSE TO LOSG HIS IEND RIGHT THE CENTER OF HIS HOMETOWN, WHICH HE NSIRED SMOPOLAN AND LIBERAL. EVENTUALLY, POLICE ARRTED THE ATTACKERS, WHO SISTED THAT THEY HAD NOT DONE ANYTHG WRONG, THAT THE GAY MEN SERVED TO BE PUNISHED. TWO WERE 17 YEARS OLD, THE ONE WHO STABBED OGURTSOV WAS 20. NO CHARG HAVE YET BEEN BOUGHT AGAST THE ATTACKERS. ON FRIDAY, OGURTSOV WAS REVERG OM TWO SURGERI ON HIS STABBED LUNGS. “UKRAE SHOULD TREAT THE ATTACK ON ME AS A SER PRECENT OF HOMOPHOBIA. THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT FOR OUR FUTURE, FOR PUTTG THE END TO VLENCE,” OGURTSOV TOLD THE DAILY BEAST A PHONE TERVIEW. IT WILL TAKE WEEKS BEFORE OGURTSOV, A PROFSNAL MOL, WILL BE ABLE TO WORK AGA. ”THE THUGS WHO STABBED ME YELLED THAT WE, GAYS, DID NOT SERVE TO LIVE. I HAVE NO DOUBTS THAT THEY ME TO KILL ,” HE SAID.SCE THE EUROMAIDAN REVOLUTN OF 2014, UKRAIAN CIVIL SOCIETY HAS EXPERIENCED UPS AND DOWNS. ONLY A FEW YEARS AGO, 2013, UKRAIAN LGBT PEOPLE ANIZED THEIR FIRST PRI; PEOPLE WHO LIVED THE CLOSET BEFORE THE REVOLUTN OPENED UP, UNED MUNI, AND BEGAN TO SPEAK OUT ABOUT PAFUL EPISOS THEIR LIV, WHICH THEY HAD BURIED SI FOR YEARS.THIS WEEK, AN INTERNATNAL MOARY FUND MISSN ARRIVED UKRAE TO NTUE WORKG ON A $17 BILLN LOAN PROGRAM THAT THE IMF HAS APPROVED FOR KIEV ON THE NDN THAT UKRAE REFORMS S STUTNS, FIGHTS RPTN, AND VELOPS A TRANSPARENT AND SAFE ENVIRONMENT FOR FOREIGN VTORS. BUT UKRAE’S MOCRACY IS DANGER FOR AS LONG AS FAR RIGHT NATNALISTS ATTACK LGBT PEOPLE BOTH THE PAL AND AROUND THE PROVC OF UKRAE.“WE ARE VERY NCERNED ABOUT THE GROWG VLENCE; 2017 WE UNTED 226 HOMOPHOBIC ATTACKS ON LGBT PEOPLE UKRAE,” SOPHIA LAPA, A HUMAN RIGHTS FENR OM THE “OUR WORLD” LGBT ANIZATN TOLD THE DAILY BEAST. FEELG DISILLNED ABOUT THE ERNMENT’S DIFFERENCE TO CREASG HOMOPHOBIA, THE UKRAIAN LGBT MOVEMENT HAS GROWN MORE ANIZED S POLIL STRATEGI. “IT LOOKS LIKE, AS WE GROW MORE ANIZED AND MORE ACTIVE, HATE FOR IS CREASG, TOO,” SAID LAPA. “SO FAR WE HAVE NOT SEEN A SGLE SE UKRAE’S URTS AGAST VLENT HOMOPHOB, SO HOPEFULLY THIS TIME THORI WILL PAY ATTENTN TO THE ATTACK ON OUR IENDS, ON OGURTSOV,” LAPA SAID. ANNA NEMTSOVA

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UKRAE GAY PRI PARA ATTACKED WH STON, SMOKE BOMBS

And beg gay was part of thgs that gave me that anxiety. Well, he don’t know or he don’t want to know that we are a gay uple.

OLEKSANDR ZHUHAN And today when we met our manr, and he was like gettg acquated, speakg to , givg his speech, he said, I’ve had gay guys my un before and was no problem wh them.

NOT EUROPEAN FOR UKRAIAN NAZIS TO ATTACK GAYS, BUT PENSNERS FAIR GAME (VIO)

So if I see or hear any s of homophobia, this un is not a place for homophobia. OLEKSANDR ZHUHAN He said, I know that there are guys our un who are gay. I mean, the way they talk, they are not like some narrow-md, homophobic savag.

GANG OF MASKED NEO-NAZI THUGS VLENTLY ATTACK GAY BAR BONE-CHILLG VIO

And they started shoutg homophobic thgs and they beat him. On Thursday morng at about 5 am, a group of five Ukraian gay iends me out of a nightclub and stopped by a bench on the central avenue of Khrhchatyk Kiev to have a smoke and chat.

There have been dozens of homophobic attacks Ukrae the past year, and another was about to unfold the heart of the untry's dnk young men approached the iends, yellg: “Faggots! ” One of the gay men, 22-year-old Yevgeny Ogurtsov, was wearg a lorful T-shirt tucked a pair of checked pants. Ogurtskov tried to lm down the attackers va: the strangers were heated by their avoid an latn of the vlence, the gay iends tried to walk away but the attackers followed them.

LGBTQ REFUGE FLEEG UKRAE FACE DISCRIMATN UNTRI WH ANTI-GAY LAWS

Eventually, police arrted the attackers, who sisted that they had not done anythg wrong, that the gay men served to be punished. “Ukrae should treat the attack on me as a ser precent of homophobia. ”The thugs who stabbed me yelled that we, gays, did not serve to live.

“We are very ncerned about the growg vlence; 2017 we unted 226 homophobic attacks on LGBT people Ukrae, ” Sophia Lapa, a human rights fenr om the “Our World” LGBT anizatn told The Daily Beast.

Feelg disillned about the ernment’s difference to creasg homophobia, the Ukraian LGBT movement has grown more anized s polil strategi. “So far we have not seen a sgle se Ukrae’s urts agast vlent homophob, so hopefully this time thori will pay attentn to the attack on our iends, on Ogurtsov, ” Lapa said. Ukraian Gay Pri wagon gettg attacked by homophobic Rsian boys Kharkov woods.

RSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH LEAR BLAM INVASN ON UKRAE'S 'GAY PRI'

Boris Zolotchenko (gay alliance rae). Ukrae has seen a surge of anti-LGBT sentiment 2018, wh 23, 000 people signg a petn askg for a “gay propaganda” law which lled same-sex adoptn “an act of vlence agast the children. He told Gay Ukrae Alliance: “I’m more and more nvced that the March of Equaly needs to be rried out.

nterr Mistry members ta an anti-gay protter durg the so-lled Equaly March, anized by a lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) muny, Kiev, Ukrae, June 6, 2015. A Ukraian gay pri para the pal of Kiev was attacked on Saturday, woundg five policemen. “Gay propaganda is stctive and dog harm to our Christian natn, we n’t allow that.

Ukrae’s first planned gay pri para was nceled 2012 amid threats of vlence and nmnatn. The untry's first-ever succsful gay pri para was held 2013 unr the protectn of 1, 500 police officers but lasted for only one hour.

HUNGARIAN PRINT VETO ‘SNCH ON YOUR GAY NEIGHBOR’ LAW

Although Ukrae was the first former Soviet untry to crimalize homosexualy 1991, a spate of vlence has targeted LGBT rints and activists, many of whom were attacked simply for “appearg gay, ” Gay Alliance Ukrae's Vice Print Stas Mischenko told the Global activist anizatn Our World reprentative Oleksandr Zchenko told the Kyiv Post that 40 hate crim were mted agast LGBT people 2014, and that 10 such crim had already been reported 2015.

A gay Ukraian activist and soldier says LGBTQ+ muny members Kharkiv found Rsian soldiers a basement they e and took the soldiers Pilipanko told Israel Hayom, "This is our war, the Ukraians, but we have also been fightg as LGBTQ people, and I'm sure that the ras Kharkiv unrstood that. "He add, "We are nontg a tyrannil, homophobic enemy.