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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- LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
- ZELENSKY FLOATS CIVIL UNNS AMID GAY MARRIAGE PH UKRAE
LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
The role of gay soldiers, the lack of legal rights for their partners, and the threat of Rsia imposg anti-L.G.B.T. polici have turned the war to a talyst for change Ukrae. * gay marriage ukraine *
Ukrae legalized homosexualy after the fall of the Soviet Unn, but anti-LGBTQ attus and laws rema place the untry. Zelensky said he didn’t want to say “anythg negative” about Ukrae’s LGBTQ+ muny rponse to a homophobic heckler durg a 2019 prs nference. ” He has also e unr fire om gay rights groups Ukrae for not dismissg Oleksiy Artovych, one of his clost advisors who last month said members of the LGBTQ+ muny are “viant.
Homosexualy has been legal Ukrae sce 1991, but same-sex partnerships are not lawfully regnized. Zelensky’s own party, who have lled for a law fg “homosexual propaganda.
”But gay rights advot Ukrae hope that Mr. AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTThe role of gay soldiers, the lack of legal rights for their partners, and the threat of Rsia imposg anti-L. But a untry that do not regnize gay marriage or even civil unns, none of that appli to a same-sex partner.
ZELENSKY FLOATS CIVIL UNNS AMID GAY MARRIAGE PH UKRAE
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”Gay rights advot said Mr. In Ukrae, they do not have the tomatic right to vis a hospalized partner, to share property ownership, to re for a ceased partner’s children, to claim the body of a partner killed war or to llect ath benefs om the Dolzhenko/EPA, via ShutterstockBut the war is addg impet to a drive to legalize gay marriage, wh a petn recently reachg the sk of Print Volodymyr Zelensky llg for same-sex partners to have the same rights as heterosexual upl, cludg the right to marry.
Zelensky n cle to act on the petn, or endorse by draftg a gay rights bill and sendg for a vote Parliament, where his erng Servant of the People Party has a sizable majory.
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Rights, said Parliament remaed eply divid over gay rights, wh a majory uncid on the issue. People has taken on add urgency at a time when Mosw is seizg terrory and apparently plans to annex to Rsia, where sexual mori routely face official and unofficial discrimatn, homophobia and social Ukrae, the sight of L.
“When we fend the untry, we dismantle Rsian propaganda about all gay people beg munists, Marxists, and anti-Ukrae, ” said Viktor Pylypenko, who has been fightg Ukrae’s eastern Dombas regn and is the director of an anizatn of L. “We have stroyed the homophobic myths by fightg the Rsians and riskg our liv for Ukrae.
People Ukrae routely face discrimatn, though not as wily as Rsia, and pri events the untry have been marred by threats and vlence om anti-gay protters and far-right attus have been changg Ukrae, where homosexualy was crimalized 1991, but the extent of that change is unclear.