Fleeg Ukrae, LGBTQ refuge face untri' anti-gay laws and discrimatn : NPR

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• A GAY UKRAIAN ARY UPLE ENGAGED ONLY DAYS AGO IS BEG PULLED APART TO FACE THE FEAR AND HEARTACHE OF BAT ALONE
• UKRAIAN GAY UPLE HOPE DANISH WEDDG WILL CHANGE MDSETS AT HOME
• GAY COUPLE STGGL TO STAY TOGETHER AS WAR UKRAE RAG ON
• GAY UKRAIAN REFUGE GET MARRIED DUBL AFTER PRETENDG TO BE IENDS FOR TEN YEARSALA AND ULIANA ARRIVED IRELAND ON ST PATRICK’S DAY 2022 AND AFTER YEARS OF DREAMG OF HOLDG A FAKE WEDDG, THEY LEGALLY TIED THE KNOT LAST NOVEMBER DUBLRSVPBOOKMARKSHARECOMMENTSLIFEBYSHNA BANNON WARD16:48, 14 FEB 2023BOOKMARKGAY UKRAIAN REFUGE GET MARRIED DUBL AFTER PRETENDG TO BE IENDS FOR TEN YEARSGET THE LATT SHOWBIZ NEWS AND GOSSIP EVERY DAY BY SIGNG UP TO OUR FREE NEWSLETTERMORE NEWSLETTERS SUBSCRIBEINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.MORE NEWSLETTERSWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!WE HAVE MORE NEWSLETTERSSHOW ME SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE&TIM;GROUP 28 GET THE LATT SHOWBIZ NEWS AND GOSSIP EVERY DAY BY SIGNG UP TO OUR FREE NEWSLETTERINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.SIGN UPNO THANKS, CLOSEWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE &TIM;GROUP 28THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!
• A GAY DATG APP IS HELPG TO HOE QUEER PEOPLE FLEEG UKRAE
• GAY DATG UKRAE
• THIS GAY DATG APP IS HELPG LGBTQ+ UKRAIAN REFUGE AND THEIR FAI FD SHELTER
• GAY LIFE UKRAE 2008
• UKRAIAN GAY UPLE PEPPER-SPRAYED WHILE HOLDG HANDS KIEV – BUT THAT'S NOT THE MA MSAGE LATT SOCIAL EXPERIMENT VIO
• GAY UPLE WS DISCRIMATN SE AGAST UKRAE AT EUROPEAN HUMAN RIGHTS COURT
• GAY UKRAIAN UPLE ON HOLIDAY WHEN RSIA VAD FEAR THEY’LL NEVER SEE THEIR LOVED ON AGA
• LGBTQ REFUGE FLEEG UKRAE FACE DISCRIMATN UNTRI WH ANTI-GAY LAWS
• GAY UKRAE: THE LOL LGBTQ+ COMMUNY STGGL FOR VISIBILY

A GAY UKRAIAN ARY UPLE ENGAGED ONLY DAYS AGO IS BEG PULLED APART TO FACE THE FEAR AND HEARTACHE OF BAT ALONE

The young gay uple began datg last year after Rsia lnched s vasn of told Insir, urty of translator Maxim Potapovych, that they met on a datg app. Though neher told anyone they were gay, Pasha relled experiencg homophobia and discrimatn om the other soldiers his first few weeks at a trag Rsia vad, Ukrae's stance on LGBTQ rights was murky.

UKRAIAN GAY UPLE HOPE DANISH WEDDG WILL CHANGE MDSETS AT HOME

Gay marriage and adoptn weren't legal, and although they still aren't, Print Volodymyr Zelensky has sce suggted same-sex civil partnerships uld be revised after the war.

There was also varyg public opn on genr and sexual orientatn, although anti-discrimatn laws offered some protectn, and homosexual relatns weren't legal Ukrae until 1991.

GAY COUPLE STGGL TO STAY TOGETHER AS WAR UKRAE RAG ON

KIEV (Rters) - Before Kiev celebrat Pri on Sunday, Roman Ivasiy and Anton Pozdnyakov want to speak publicly about their weddg the hope will help change hostile attus toward same-sex upl Ukrae and give urage to those “stck dumb wh fear” unns are not legally regnized Ukrae and Pozdnyakov, 32, and Ivasiy, 27, wed a ceremony attend by their iends Copenhagen’s cy hall Wtern-backed learship, Ukrae’s parliament passed legislatn 2015 to ban discrimatn the workplace as part of a seri of laws Ukrae need to pass to qualify for an European Unn visa-ee travel activists say homophobia remas wispread. And bee of this way of thkg, they are unable fd a soul mate, bee they are stck dumb wh fear, pure fear, and they are unhappy, ” Pozdnyakov ’s march Kiev - part of “Pri Month” celebrated by lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) people around the world - regularly attracts unter protts by right-wg and relig activists.

It was she who asked whether he was gay when he was still a lack of legal regnn for Ivasiy and Pozdnyakov’s marriage Ukrae posed another potential problem, though one which the uple hope will never occur: “We n’t get divorced, ” said Ivasiy.

GAY UKRAIAN REFUGE GET MARRIED DUBL AFTER PRETENDG TO BE IENDS FOR TEN YEARSALA AND ULIANA ARRIVED IRELAND ON ST PATRICK’S DAY 2022 AND AFTER YEARS OF DREAMG OF HOLDG A FAKE WEDDG, THEY LEGALLY TIED THE KNOT LAST NOVEMBER DUBLRSVPBOOKMARKSHARECOMMENTSLIFEBYSHNA BANNON WARD16:48, 14 FEB 2023BOOKMARKGAY UKRAIAN REFUGE GET MARRIED DUBL AFTER PRETENDG TO BE IENDS FOR TEN YEARSGET THE LATT SHOWBIZ NEWS AND GOSSIP EVERY DAY BY SIGNG UP TO OUR FREE NEWSLETTERMORE NEWSLETTERS SUBSCRIBEINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.MORE NEWSLETTERSWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!WE HAVE MORE NEWSLETTERSSHOW ME SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE&TIM;GROUP 28 GET THE LATT SHOWBIZ NEWS AND GOSSIP EVERY DAY BY SIGNG UP TO OUR FREE NEWSLETTERINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.SIGN UPNO THANKS, CLOSEWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE &TIM;GROUP 28THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!

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.

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

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 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.

’” But Stepan don’t want to tell his client that he’s gay, or HIV-posive, or get to any of the other personal tails such a nversatn would require.

GAY DATG UKRAE

They explaed that was “impossible” to be openly gay Ukrae and were stead seen as sisters and iends to everyone else.

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

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.

As Rsia ntu s asslt on Ukrae, a gay datg app is helpg LGBTQ+ refuge fleeg the nflict fd safe shelter outsi the untry.

GAY LIFE UKRAE 2008

Organizatns like KyivPri, UkraePri, Insight and All Out have also been raisg money to aid queer Ukraians need, while many LGBTQ+ people have been volunteerg for bat (the visibily of gay people the ary has been improvg sce the untry’s first soldier me out 2018, then formed an advocy group wh around 30 other LGBTQ+ soldiers 2019). In 2013, the Kreml passed s so-lled “gay propaganda law, ” which bans public discsns about homosexualy and the promotn of posive msag about LGBTQ+ issu. In the first five years after the law was enacted, hate crim agast gay people doubled, wh Rsia providg no anti-discrimatn protectns for them.

Sce the untry gaed pennce 1991, followg the fall of the Soviet Unn, Ukrae’s LGBTQ+ muny has bee creasgly vol and visible — 2019, the untry held s largt gay pri event to date. “Sce ’s a untry famo for s ‘gay propaganda law, ’ and is rponsible for arrtg and killg LGBTQ+ people Chechnya. From the far reach on the stepp of Eurasia, a Amerin gay uple ridg Ukrae wre about their experience this difficult new natn: “For the gay male tourist, you are tly the land of betiful boys (no attu and no body fascism).

Kiev boasts a lively gay dis, sna, a few simple bars, even a nu/gay part of our very own “beach” along the Dnipro river…” Wh slow and reful luck a “Gay Life Ukrae” n quietly be achieved. Consensual male homosexual anal terurse was punished by imprisonment of up to three years (Article 122 of the Penal Co of the Ukraian Soviet Socialist Republic).

UKRAIAN GAY UPLE PEPPER-SPRAYED WHILE HOLDG HANDS KIEV – BUT THAT'S NOT THE MA MSAGE LATT SOCIAL EXPERIMENT VIO

Although Soviet legislatn has moved the gay populatn to the edge of social life, gay men had several advantag those years (excludg the Stal perd of Soviet history of urse).

Bee the Soviet people didn’t know anythg about gay sex was not hard to fd one night stands wh straight partners. Beg on the wave of general mocratic mov the Soviet society gay liberatn gave polil birth to such well-known and disputable lears as Roman Kal or Valeria Debryanskaya. However the Ukrae was the first among the former Soviet republics to repeal crimal rponsibily for non-vlent male homosexual terurse between adults.

So this year we anticipate celebratg a full sce the Repeal of crimal prosecutn for nsensual homosexual terurse between adult men our untry.

GAY UPLE WS DISCRIMATN SE AGAST UKRAE AT EUROPEAN HUMAN RIGHTS COURT

Many gay and straight Ukraians were supervised listeng to the rad return about new Parliament cree that eveng.

GAY UKRAIAN UPLE ON HOLIDAY WHEN RSIA VAD FEAR THEY’LL NEVER SEE THEIR LOVED ON AGA

Frh tablished gay liberatn groups such as Lilia Taranenko’s “Hanymed” Kiev or Oxana Bocharnikova’s Foundatn Kharkov (aka “Pk Panther Group”) haven’t ga any thory among gay populatn bee of s fear to be exposed. The only ntext which Ukraian thori allowed homosexuals to be mentned was the ntext of the AIDS epimic problem. Associatn of gays, lbians and bisexuals of Nila “Liga” was registered December 1996 but unr the prsure of thori has to stop wh activy.

The typil feature of gay activism Ukrae the years (after disillnment mass gay liberatn anizatns such as Associatn”Hanymed” or Bocharnikova’s Foundatn) was the appearance of numero impostors posg as the lears of Ukraian gay movement. Realizg for sure that no gay movement will be possible Kuchma’s Ukrae, they noticed that there are many philanthropic stutns Wtern untri willg to support gay liberatn procs FSU. The world gay muny greets them wh cheers avoidg the obv tth: the only te tentn of the impostors is to e faster to Wtern money.

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

For now the Ukraian gay movement has to be unrground and if you ever hear about gay anizatns this untry or such actns like CSD-celebratns or Gay Pri paras, be sure that people who report them are tellg the tth: they ually do wh aim to obta the money tend for “Ukraian gay liberatn”.

GAY UKRAE: THE LOL LGBTQ+ COMMUNY STGGL FOR VISIBILY

There are some wonrful s to see (Church, non-touristy post-Soviet ways of livg), a young and non-attu gay scene, and most importantly, warm and genuely iendly, non-cynil people.

As long as one don’t try to impose any PC attus about what gay life here should be or how “gay” dividuals should live (not be married, apolil, etc) you will be fe. Someone you pick up or meet at a tra statn or sleazy bar at 2 AM may not be the bt reprentative of the gay muny or untry here. Couple: Basilly, the olr, over 30 more ‘Soviet’ crowd are so different om the younger, empowered, 20-somethg guys many of whom intify as gay the Wtern mol.

On the other hand, the kd of guys you’d like to meet probably aren’t hangg out at a gay bar the early hours (or they uld, though).