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• THE BEST KYIV GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS KYIV
• UKRAE HOLDS LARGT GAY PRI EVENT TO DATE KIEV
• GAY DATG UKRAE
• GAY LIFE KIEV? - KYIV FOM
• GAY LIFE UKRAE 2008
• UKRAE HOSTS BIGGT EVER GAY PRI PARA
• GAY UKRAE TRAVEL GUI
• UKRAE HOLDS UNTRY'S LARGT EVER GAY PRI PARA
• UKRAE STAG FIRST GAY PRI MARCH
• DASHED HOP GAY UKRAE
• GAY DATG KIEV
• THE BEST UKRAE GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS UKRAE
• GAY PARA KIEV
• GAY KIEV · BYGUI
• THE RSIAN PLOT TO TAKE BACK EASTERN EUROPE AT THE EXPENSE OF GAY RIGHTS
• GAY UKRAE: THE LOL LGBTQ+ COMMUNY STGGL FOR VISIBILY

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Image source, EPAThoands have marched through the Ukraian pal for s annual gay pri event, the largt and most peaceful the untry has seen. I get this horrible imprsn readg some articl, that the former USSR, 's a batn of discrimatn and ocsnal vlence outsi, and htlers (both gay and "gay-for-pay") the clubs.

I love Ukrae, but the homophobia and other prejudic that exist there are the most distrsg aspect of this culture for me. 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).

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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). 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.

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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.

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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. 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. Associatn of gays, lbians and bisexuals of Nila “Liga” was registered December 1996 but unr the prsure of thori has to stop wh activy.

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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.

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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”. 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.

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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).

Any cultural type events which are popular here would naturally attract a number of gay fellows (the Spartak opera pecially). We thk a sizable majory of gay guys get married and fool around on the si–secrets are an accepted Soviet way of life.

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Although there are plenty of old timers, there are also newer Christian fundamentalists (imported om the Wt) who are disgted by gays, and would love to eradite them and AIDS. The tabloid prs and media have even done stori on a gay uple adoptg children, known gay Ukraian celebri, tillatg stori about the Gay Gam or a gay Pri para somewhere else.

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As our web se mentns, there is a thrivg gay expat group which also clus a few wterners wh long term lol Ukraian boyiends or girliends. REUTERS/Valentyn OgirenkoKYIV, Sept 19 (Rters) - 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.

Homophobia is wispread Ukrae, acrdg to a survey by the soclogil group "Ratg" published Augt, which said 47% of rponnts had a negative view of the LGBTQ+ marchers were flanked by police as a few hundred anti-gay rights protters gathered nearby, but there was no vlence. KIEV (Rters) - Ukraian policians and foreign diplomats joed thoands marchg a gay pri para Kiev on Sunday, the biggt and most peaceful ever the former Soviet of people, many drsed bright lors, parad along streets the center of the Ukraian pal, holdg up banners sayg “Diversy is betiful”, “Human rights = happy untry”, “No vlence - y rights!

” were flanked by a thick rdon of police helmets but there was no sign of vlence spe the prence of a few hundred ’s march Kiev was part of “Pri Month” celebrated by lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) people around the world. Rlana Panhnyk, one of the anizers of the pal’s annual gay pri march, told journalists after the event that about 8, 000 people had attend far more than 5, 000 last year.

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Embassy Ukrae, wrote a tweet: “We stand wh all Ukraians strivg for equaly and non-discrimatn” ernment has creased support for LGBT rights sce a Wtern-backed learship me to power 2014, but crics say homophobic attus rema relatively 47% of Ukraians thk that rights of sexual mori should be limed while 37.

For ee real time breakg news alerts sent straight to your box sign up to our breakg news emailsSign up to our ee breakg news emailsThoands of people marched through Kiev for the annual gay pri para, markg the biggt turn out the Ukraian pal has ever Sunday the cy saw 8, 000 atten, among them policians and foreign diplomats, participate the celebratn, an crease om 5, 000 last this year’s atten was Judh Gough, the Brish ambassador to Ukrae, who shared photos of herself and other ambassadors at the march. Image ptn, Gay rights activists marched for about 30 m away om the cy centreAbout 100 activists have staged Ukrae's first gay pri march the pal Kiev, ignorg a urt ban. "This n be nsired a historic day, " Olena Semenova, one of the anisers, arrted 13 people for tryg to break up the rally - a untry where homophobia is wispread and generally neighbourg Rsia, more than 20 gay activists were taed by police at an unsanctned rally mpaigners tried to march on Rsia's parliament buildg, nouncg what they scribed as "homophobic" legislatn recently approved by bill bans "gay propaganda" an effort to protect children, but human rights mpaigners say s real aim is to curb the rights of sexual ptn, Anti-gay mpaigners nounced the march'Kiev is not Sodom'In Kiev, the gay-rights activists marched outsi the cy centre amid a heavy police prence.

Cy thori had argued that a gay march would clash wh the annual Kiev Day ftivi and uld lead to thori ced 500 plats om the public to jtify their urt petn. A gay-rights event planned for last year Kiev was lled off at the last mute after a gatherg of skheads threatened participants. " Asked at the recent Euroci Conference how he would support human rights after the Zhovten homophobic attacks, Maidan's hero and current Kiev mayor Vali Klschko said he nsired human rights a good thg, but would "not stand up for gays and lbians.

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"I believe we are between two evils: Rsian homophobic culture and Ukraian homophobic tolerance, " says Olena Semenova, an LGBT activist. The Ukraian gay and lbian muny is large and vibrant, pecially Kiev, where gay clubs and bars operate relative peace. Homosexualy was illegal the Soviet Unn and was often equated wh "unterrevolutnary" posns and even fascism — a nvenient way to al wh the regime's enemi.

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In another poll, by the Ukraian Gay Alliance and Ukraian State Soclogil Instute, 63 percent labeled homosexualy "a perversn" and "a mental disease. There have been other s of arson, too, long before the one at the Zhovten theater: In 2009, the Kiev art gallery Ya was set on fire after the prentatn of a gay lerary anthology.

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In 2012, a few members of parliament proposed a bill to "prohib promotn of homosexualy, " fashned after the notor Rsian laws agast "gay propaganda, " but unr prsure om human rights anizatns and foreign diplomats, the bill never ma past the first readg and has now been permanently shelved.

Much of Rsia's anti-Wtern propaganda foc on Europe's tolerance of "sexual perversns" and "moral nce" — Gayropa, as the pro-Kreml media love to ll Europe — and the Ukraian thori do not want to see any such rhetoric jtified, which uld help the separatists and alienate lol nservative groups. Unlike neighborg Poland, there are no openly gay policians Ukrae, though the party of current print Petro Poroshenko jt recently put together a statement support of LGBT rights. " Que possibly, the flash mob was really a provotn — such tactics are not new the handbook of the secury servic — but the paradox remas: LGBT groups took an active stand agast a display of LGBT inty bee of the unrstandg that talkg about gay rights Ukrae the current polil suatn was a huge liabily.

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Although one of the tac goals of the revolutn was to create a more jt and equal society, many Ukrae rema eply prejudiced agast gays and lbians, even pared to nservative societi plac like Turkey, where the Gezi Park protts agast the ernment of Recep Tayyip Erdogan the summer of 2013 openly embraced LGBT groups. The mayor of Kiev, Klschko, ma an appeal to ncel last year's March for Equaly, for stance, cg secury ncerns, which were certaly real (the first March for Equaly failed 2012, when thoands of natnalists threatened vlence and some gay activists were beaten; 2013, a small group managed to march jt 300 meters along a Kiev street guard by over 1, 000 secury officers), but he also lled the march "an entertament event, " fundamentally failg to unrstand s purpose promotg human rights and better mocratic standards.

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This topic was fotten, " says Svyatoslav Sheremet of the Ukraian Gay Fom, who was btally beaten by natnalist thugs durg the failed march 2012. Meanwhile, LGBT refuge have been arrivg Kiev om Crimea and eastern Ukrae, nng away om both war and risg levels of vlent homophobia.

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In Crimea, for example, the new prime mister, Sergei Aksyonov, has said that they "do not need such people, " while separatist ernments eastern Ukrae have reportedly crimalized homosexualy g Soviet legal templat. Post-Maidan Ukrae is still a place where law and orr rema eply problematic, the secury servic are effective, and aggrsn and ary machismo have bee part of daily life — not the sort of atmosphere which gay and lbian Ukraians n feel a part of their new, remoled untry.