How Rsia's vasn of Ukrae — and his longstandg csa agast LGBTQ rights — forc a gay uple to make a vastatg cisn
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GAY COUPLE STGGL TO STAY TOGETHER AS WAR UKRAE RAG ON
That’s how Maxim wound up close enough to Stepan that they uld see each other on Hor, a gay hookup app. Rsia has been stokg homophobia the regn ever sce Rsia enacted s so-lled “gay propaganda ban” ne years ago. So they lived quietly, always reful about who knew they were gay.
Many queer people fled the new regime, and the fear that queer people might be targeted seemed to e te 2015, when the one gay club the regn was raid by separatists, who beat and robbed the patrons. They were still reful about who they told they were gay — Stepan didn’t even feel fortable tellg the doctor at the clic where he got his HIV treatment. While many LGBTQ people enthiastilly enlisted, many other queer people, like Stepan and Maxim, didn’t believe the ary would be a safe place for them bee of wispread homophobia.
They were aaid they would be targeted as gays if Rsian-aligned troops ptured their town. They shared a small room wh seven other gay men — and five ts — everyone sleepg si by si on mattrs on the floor. All the rints were gay men or trans women wh male documents, and the whole buildg was on edge as they strategized wh volunteer se workers about how to get whe tickets and leave the untry.