A Gay Datg App is Helpg to Hoe Queer People Fleeg Ukrae | Them

Contents:

• LGBTQ REFUGE FLEEG UKRAE FACE DISCRIMATN UNTRI WH ANTI-GAY LAWS
• A GAY DATG APP IS HELPG TO HOE QUEER PEOPLE FLEEG UKRAE
• THIS GAY DATG APP IS HELPG LGBTQ+ UKRAIAN REFUGE AND THEIR FAI FD SHELTER
• HELP FOR GAY REFUGE OM UKRAE
• LGBTQ REFUGE FLEEG UKRAE FACE DISCRIMATN COUNTRI WH ANTI-GAY LAWS

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

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.

A GAY DATG APP IS HELPG TO HOE QUEER PEOPLE FLEEG UKRAE

"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. GENEVA (22 March 2022) - As the Rsian Feratn’s aggrsn agast Ukrae tensifi, is sential for Stat and all stakeholrs engaged protectg forcibly displaced persons to regnise and rpond to the uniquely genred exposure to risk and protectn needs of lbian, gay, bisexual, trans, tersex (LGBTI) and genr-diverse refuge, asylum seekers, ternally displaced and undocumented people, a UN expert said today. “We need to make sure that LGBT people fleeg Ukrae fd themselv a safe space, ” says Vyachlav Melnyk, the executive director of the Polish LGBTQ advocy group Campaign Agast Homophobia.

In their rankg of LGBTQ rights Europe, the advocy group the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn, or ILGA-Europe, ranks Hungary 28th and Poland 43rd out of 49 untri. Polish advocy groups like the Campaign Agast Homophobia and Lambda Warsaw have anized databas where refuge n be matched wh LGBTQ-iendly hom. A 2019 survey of around 40, 000 people 34 untri nducted by the Pew Rearch Center found that only 14 per cent of rponnts Ukrae thought homosexualy should be accepted is no data on how many of Ukrae's 41 ln cizens are LGBTQ, but one Ipsos survey suggts that, globally, anywhere between three and 10 per cent of people intify as LGBTQ, pendg on the untry.

THIS GAY DATG APP IS HELPG LGBTQ+ UKRAIAN REFUGE AND THEIR FAI FD SHELTER

Gay and trans people are allowed to jo the ary Ukrae and have been takg part the fence of the untry, he said. Leave to a gay datg app to help people fe unexpected nnectns.

HELP FOR GAY REFUGE OM UKRAE

Although some ers poted out that Ukrae is nscriptg men between the ag of 18 to 60, and so the group might not be as helpful as one would thk, a Romeo spokperson told Queerty that the group was not tend strictly for the app’s erbase, which is largely gay men. Ined, LGBTQ+ refuge fleeg Ukrae are hopg to pe poundg threats: the Rsian vadg forc themselv, as well as the tense homophobia of the Rsian ernment. Then there’s the fact that Ukrae’s neighborg natn, Poland, to which over a ln Ukraians have fled, is notorly homophobic as well, wh the nonprof advocy group ILGA-Europe rankg the untry ad last s rankg of the most gay-iendly untri the EU.

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

As Rsia ntu s asslt on Ukrae, a gay datg app is helpg LGBTQ+ refuge fleeg the nflict fd safe shelter outsi the untry. Ilia, a gay man origally om Rsia, has been able to rtart his life safety the U.

Though homosexualy is legal Ukrae, same-sex marriage is not regnized and nversn therapy is not banned. The Pew Rearch Center’s 2019 Global Attus Survey found that 69 percent of Ukraians say homosexualy should not be accepted.