Yegor Gkov and Bogdan Zchenko, who owned a gay bar Sevastopol, feared for their bs — and their fay
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CRIMEA'S GAY COMMUNY MOV OUT AS RSIAN HOMOPHOBIA SETS IN
A Gay-Oriented Collectn of Art Works, Lerary Quot, Songs, Films, and Male Imag. Please be aware thet there is mature ntent on this blog. Informatn and lks to sourc will be provid unls unknown. Enjoy your vis. * gay bogdan *
In 2013, Bogdan beme the first openly gay person to addrs the Ukraian Parliament. In March 2019, the Geetown Public Policy Review amic journal published his opn piece, “How Rsia exports homophobia to Ukrae. At the age of 15, Bogdan me out as gay to his parents, who reacted wh rejectn and hostily.
On November 7, 2013, Bogdan beme the first openly gay person to addrs the Verkhovna Rada, the Ukraian natnal parliament, on the proposed plans for European tegratn and anti-discrimatn law.
On January 14, 2014, prott of a fake “gay para” signed to unrme the Euromaidan movement, Bogdan anized a peaceful actn near the office of Ukraian Choice, the anizatn that had helped to ordate the provotn. The symbolic gture was signed to ll attentn to a recent law prohibg “Homosexual Propaganda, ” which the Ukraian Parliament adopted upon s first readg and which formed part of several dictatorial laws passed unr oted Print Viktor Yanovych. I am gay artist, who received trag at the Rho Island School of Dign, and now, a retired high-end fe art amer livg Maryland, USA.
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Although he is not ready to adm , he is gay. For the gay muny Crimea, the most worryg piece of legislatn was the Rsian ban on “homosexual propaganda, ” which Put signed 2012. Although the law is billed as an effort to protect Rsian children om learng about “non-tradnal sexual relatnships, ” s crics say the law enurag homophobia, signalg to Rsians that gays are somehow ferr and should not be allowed to sist on their equaly public.
The head of the regnal ernment, Sergei Aksyonov, said that the Wt’s liberal attu toward gay rights would be “tolerable and unacceptable” on his pensula durg a meetg wh his misters last month. “In Crimea we don’t wele such people, we don’t need them, ” he said, referrg to homosexuals. Through their patrons om Cy Hall, the bar’s owners learned that “someone had whispered to the new learship that they have a gay bar stg right unrneath them, ” says Gkov.