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• 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 DATG APP ROMEO IS HELPG UKRAIANS FD LGBTQ-IENDLY SHELTER EUROPE
• GAY DATG APP BE LIFELE FOR UKRAIANS AS ERS OFFER SHELTER TO REFUGE
• LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
• A GAY UKRAIAN ARY UPLE ENGAGED ONLY DAYS AGO IS BEG PULLED APART TO FACE THE FEAR AND HEARTACHE OF BAT ALONE
• MANY BRONS HAVE CHANGED THEIR MDS ON GAY MARRIAGE
• GAY KIEV
• 29 YEAR-OLD GAY MAN UKRAE: ‘FOR NOW I JT WANT TO BE ALIVE’ SAVAS ABADSIDIS MARCH 1, 2022SHARE I MET 29 YEAR-OLD DENIS THE TELEGRAM CHAT ROOM Гей Украина  | Знакомств (GAY UKRAE | DATG) ON SUNDAY EVENG. [EDORIAL NOTE: I LEFT MUCH OF THE NVERSATN AS IS OM INSTANT MSAGG]HE RPOND TO MY POST LOOKG TO SPEAK TO GAY MEN THE UKRAE TO GET A SENSE OF WHAT THE MOOD WAS LIKE. DENIS LIV  ZAPORIZHZHIA. IT’S A CY THE NORTHEAST RNER OF UKRAE.ABOVE: ZAPORIZHZHIA  AT NIGHT PRR TO THE RSIAN INVASN.IT’S BASILLY WHERE YOU DON’T WANT TO BE RIGHT NOW. SUATED ON THE BANKS OF THE DNIEPER WHICH NNECTS TO THE BLACK SEA, IT IS THE ADMISTRATIVE CENTRE OF THE ZAPORIZHZHIA OBLAST (OR REGN). ZAPORIZHZHIA HAS OR HAD A POPULATN OF 722,713 AS OF 2021.IT  IS KNOWN FOR S ISLAND OF KHORTYTSIA AND DNIEPER HYDROELECTRIC STATN (BELOW). IT IS ALSO AN IMPORTANT DTRIAL CENTER PRODUCG STEEL, ALUMIUM, AIRCRAFT ENG, TOMOBIL, TRANSFORMERS FOR SUBSTATNS, AND OTHER HEAVY DTRY GOODS.ON SUNDAY WAS HOT SPOT AND A VECTOR FOR LARGE NVOYS OF RSIAN TROOPS ENTERG THE UNTRY. IF YOU LOOK UP NOW, EVEN ON S WIKIPEDIA PAGE, ’S KNOWN AS  FOR THE “BATTLE OF  ZAPORIZHZHIA” THE CURRENT CREASGLY GLOBAL UKRAE WAR. SECURG THE STATN WAS A GOAL OF THE RSIANS AND ALREADY TURKISH NEWS SERVIC WERE CLAIMG HAD BEEN SEIZED. I ASKED DENIS AND HE SAID HE DIDN’T KNOW FOR CERTA, BUT HE DIDN’T BELIEVE SO.I DON’T NOW. I HOPE NOT.ARE YOU FIGHTG?WE TRY TO CREATE OBSTACL TO RSIAN MY CY SO WILL BE VERY DIFFICULT TO ME HEREHAD YOU SERVED THE ARY PRR TO THAT?NO, I’M AT HOME. I JT HELP WH ME, MY MOM AND NEIGHBORS.  SOMETIM I E GOOGLE TRANSLATE BUT I UNRSTAND MOSTLYYEAH I JT WAS TRYG TO GET A SENSE OF THE WEEK LOOKS HORRIBLE OM HERE BUT I DON’T KNOW WHAT ’S LIKE OVER THEREARE YOU WORKG FOR LGBTQ AMERI?Y. BASED NEW YORK.Y WHOLE WORLD NOW GOG CRAZY IF YOU REALLY NEED I N FD REPRENTATIVE OF LGBTQ MY CY WHO ALSO SPEAK ENGLISH.THAT WOULD ROCK. I’M JT LOOKG TO TALK AS MANY PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE.OK. I WOULD LIKE TO TALK WH YOU AND STAY TOUCH.I’VE NOTICED A LOT OF MIXED OPNS ABOUT GAY LIFE UKRAE.ABOUT GAY RIGHTS UKRAE?I’VE READ ABOUT THE LAW BUT HOW DO YOU FEEL?  IS BETTER THAN RSIA BUT IS STILL HOMOPHOBIC UNTRY. BUT WHO KNOWS, IF WE W… MAYBE WILL CHANGE.IS ZELENSKYY GOOD ON GAY ISSU? HE SEEMS TO BE VERY LIBERTARIAN.I LIVE MIDDLE SIZE CY MY GUS IS AROUND 700,000 PEOPLE. HE IS BETTER THAN PREV PRINTS Y. BUT WE DON’T HAVE ANY GAY CLUBS.HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT HIM?WHERE DO YOU GUYS HANG OUT? GRDR LIKE EVERYWHERE ELSE? I SUPPORT HIM, PECIALLY NOW, BUT HE STAYS PAL BUT HE IS TARGET NUMBER ONE.NO. GRDR IS NOT SO POPULAR UKRAE, UKRAE IS MORE POPULAR HOR APP.IS YOUR FAY RELIG? AND FEEL EE TO TELL ME TO GO FUCK MYSELF IF YOU THK I’M ASKG ANYTHG TOO PERSONAL.NOT SO REALLY, BUT MY MOM STILL KDA HOMOPHOBIC.SO IS ME.I WANT TO BE IENDS AND TALK WH YOU TIME TO TIME. WTERN UKRAE IS MORE PRO WT BUT ALSO MORE ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN AND GENERAL MORE HOMOPHOBIC.I’M NOT SURPRISED. LIKE I SAID I THK ’S EVERYWHERE YOU GOG TO FD SOME. SO MUCH OF THE US IS NOT SAFE. IN TERMS OF I WOULDN’T LIKE KISS SOMEONE MOST PART OF THE US. AND I’M NOT SURPRISED. THE WT IS CLOSE TO POLAND AND POLAND IS THE MOST RELIGNS UNTRI WTERN WORLD.I THK NEW YORK IS SAFE, AND BIG MOCRATIC CI.I’M UKRAIAN BUT HAVE A LTLE B POLAND ROOTS.WHAT’S DAILY  LIFE LIKE UNR MARTIAL LAW?PUBLIC TRANSPORT WORKS DIFFICULT. WE CURRENTLY N NOT GO OUTSI AFTER 7PM UNTIL 6AM. IN OUR STOR SHELFS ALMOST EMPTY. WE TRY TO GO TO SHELTER EVERY TIME WE HEAR ALARM. WE TRY TO HELP OUR ARY. I REMEMBER READ THERE SOME DIFFICULTI WH AIDS MEDICE FOR HIV+ PEOPLE. ABOVE: UKRAE FENS ZAPORIZHZHIA.: ABOVE: KHORTSA, ZAPORIZHZHIA, ZAPORIZHIA OBLAST, UKRAE UNSPLASH LICENSE ???? CHECK OUT MY INSTAGRAM @MAKSYM.TYMCHYKTHE NEXT TIME WE IMD DENIS TOLD ME THAT THE REPRENATIVE OF THE LOL LGBT  ANIZATN TOLD HIM THAT THEY DO NOT HAVE TIME TALK TO PRS RIGHT NOW, THAT THEIR PRRY WAS LGBT PEOPLE DANGER UKRAE.I TOLD HIM HOW I’D NEVER SEEN THE WTERN POWERS GALVANIZE AROUND THEY WAY HAVE AROUND UKRAE.THE WHOLE WORLD SEEMED.“THANK YOU,” HE SAID. HE THEN ASKED ME:MY UNRSTANDG IS YOUR SE AND ABOUT NEWS AND LGBTQ LIFE GENERAL?Y. AND NERDY STUFF. SO ICS, ART, AND NEWS ETCTECHNOLOGY?Y. THAT TOOCOOL. I LIKE TECH. ALT NEWS WH A NERDY EDGE. NICE. THERE IS A LOT OF NERDS NOWTHEN HE SENT ME THE FOLLOWG PICTURE.IS THIS FOR REAL?I TELL HIM ’S THE REPLI FRANCE.STILL OLI WAS LEARNG ENGLISH VERY OFTEN BY WATCHG AMERIN TELEVISN AND NEWS (I KNOW YOUNG PEOPLE DO NOT WATCH ) AND HAVE “BLE” OM LOL CHANNELS NYC LIKE WABC. @POLILAMERIX IN #BERDYANSK, #ZAPORIZHZHIA REGN, SOUTH #UKRAE, THE #RSIA ♬ ORIGAL SOUND – POLIL AMERIXXXI THANK YOU AND EVERYONE ON THE WT THAT DO NOT FET ABOUT MY UNTRYAND IS QUIET AWOME THAT RSIA STILL DO NOT HAVE WE HAVE SOME POWER @LUCKY_KRAY BERDYANSK, ZAPORIZHZHIA – MOTHER EXPLAED THAT WE DON’T NEED THEIR PEACE! #MORHER #WAR #RAE #NFT ♬ оригинальный звук – LUCKY_KRAY I EXPLA THAT UKRAE IS A BIG PART OF EUROPE AND  I DON’T UNRSTAND WHY SOME PEOPLE DON’T KNOW THAT. I ALSO MY FAY IS OM POLAND AND GREECE SO OF URSE I KNOW. EVEN IF STOP NOW,  ’S BEEN HORRIBLE WHAT RSIA HAS DONE.I HOPE UKRAE ULD JO EUROPE FAY.I HOPE RSIA GET RID OF PUT.DEMOCRATS OR REPUBLINS?THEY’RE GOG TO GET HIM THERE GONNA GET ALL THE OLIGARCHS. THEY’LL START SOME KD OF MOCRATIC REPUBLIC UKRAE WILL BE AT THE CENTER OF . EVERYONE IS VERY ANGRY. IT’S A SLAP THE FACE EVERYONE.I HOPE I REALLY HOPEHE’S A CRIMAL. THEY SHOULD’VE GOTTEN RID OF THEM ALL TIME AGO THEY LET FTER. THAT GOT TO THIS POT.Y, NOW THEY SUFFER OM PUT RSIA TOOOL. AND YOU KNOW, I JT HAVE TO ASK IF THERE ANY POSSIBILY TO HELP TO GO TO AMERI (PROBABLY AFTER WAR, BEE NOW CURRENTLY UKRAIAN ERNMENT DO NOT ALLOW TO MAN OM 18 TO 60 TO LIVE THE UNTRY) I WOULD LIKE TO GO TO AMERIHOPEFULLY ’S OVER SOON.BUT IF YOU ONE DAY YOU KNOW SOME WAY OR SOMEONE TO N HELP ME WH I WOULD REALLY APPRECIATE. YOU KNOW UKRAE IS TILL EXTREMELY POOR UNTRY AND QUIET HOMOPHOBIC ONE.WHAT DO AMERI MEAN TO YOU? WHY DO SPIRE YOU SO MUCH?AMERI IS LIKE ROAD MOVIE.  BIG TECH AND RPORATNS GENERAL. OPEN POSSIBILI. IT IS LIKE YOU ARE 16 YEARS OLD AGA AND EVERYTHG IS POSSIBLE. BIG ROAD, RS, HOM, PEOPLE, EVERYTHG. SUBURBIA!!!! (ALL THOSE NICE HOM) ( RSIA AND UKRAE THERE IS EVEN MEME ABOUT ). AND BIG BUILDGS. CHRISTMAS. TIME SQUARE AS REAL CROSS ROAD OF THE WORLD ????. BUT ALSO EQUALY, YOUR ZIP PENDS ON YOUR FUTURE ( IS A LTLE B DIFFERENT UKRAE AND EUROPE) DIVID SOCIETY BEE ONLY TWO PARTI WHO TEARG UNTRY APART. OPRAH ONCE SAID ‘YOU ARE ALREADY BLSED IF YOU WERE BORN AMERI’ I WOULD GIVE ANYTHG TO LIVE THERE.I LGHED AT HIS MENTN OF OPRAH.HMM FREEDOM OF CHOICE.WHAT CHOICE?TO GO AND FEEL EE EXPRS FEELG.THE RT IS A SORT OF EE ASSOCIATNS HE HAS ABOUT AMERI, SOME NEGATIVE, BUT ULTIMATELY HOPEFUL. IT’S HUMBLG AND ENARG TO HEAR.COMMERCIAL EVERYWHERE, AND ON TV (AND YOU HAVE TO PAY FOR , ISN’T EE) THERE IS MERCIAL EVERY ALMOST 5 MUT (AGA UKRAE, RSIA, EUROPE OR UK NOT SO).NO MATERNY LEAVE!! (EVEN AI THEY HAVE ) HEALTHY RE. EXTREMELY EXPENSIVE TN.SO IS A LOT MORE FOR BS NOT FOR PEOPLE BUT IS ALSO GIV MANY POSSIBILI (YOU N BE ANYTHG) AND IS REALLY POSSIBLE IN EUROPE IS NOT SO… FROM VERY BEGNG AMERI FIGHT FOR EEDOM AND POSSIBILI TO BE EE OM ROYAL AND BLUE BLOOD (EVERYBODY IS EQUAL) YOU N DO ON YOUR OWN BUT EUROPE THOSE TIM YOU HAD TO BE BLUE BLOOD. I HOPE YOU UNRSTAND ME.I DO. HEY N I ASK YOU ANOTHER QUTN? ONE THG I FD STRANGE IS HOW WILLG YOU AND YOUR UNTRYMEN SEEM TO BE TO DIE FOR YOUR UNTRY. I UNRSTAND THE SUATN, BUT SEEMS A B NIHILISTIC TO ME. HOW DO YOU FEEL THAT ASSSMENT?CREEPY. I DON’T KNOW IS UP TO YOU TO CI. ACTUALLY I’M HERE THE EAST OF UKRAE NOW SUATN ALMOST READY TO ASK YOU FOR MONEY TO HELP ME GO TO WT OF UKRAE(ON THE BORR WH POLAND AND TO BE THERE) BEE HERE UPLE DAYS PROBABLY WILL START TO BE HOT.SO YOU DON’T FEEL THAT SIRE?I DO NOT WANT TO DIERELATED: GAY UKRAIANS VOLUNTEER TO BATTLE PUT’S ANTI-LGBT RSIAN OPPRSN THE NEXT TIME WE CHATTED WAS TUDAY NIGHT. MARCH 1ST.I RECEIVED THE FOLLOWG MSAGE AROUND 9PM.HE’D TOLD ME WHEN WE STARTED CHATTG THAT BEE OF THE VASN AND MARTIAL LAW HE AND MANY OTHER PEOPLE ULDN’T GO TO WORK AND MONEY WAS NNG OUT. I ASKED HIM HOW MUCH ST TO GO TO POLAND AND HE SAID TOTAL TRAVEL ST WOULD BE ABOUT $400. I PLANNED ON GETTG THE MONEY TO HIM AND HE WAS GOG TO SEND ME A LK. HE NEVER DID.I LOOKG AT DARK STREETS OUTSI OF MY CY NOW AND I KNOW THAT RSIAN TROOPS MY REGN ALREADY, AND MANY PEOPLE ALREADY LEFT. I THOUGHT THAT I ULD S HERE, BUT AFTER I SAW THE FOOTAGE OF THE RSIAN ARY ENTERG THE CY THE CY TO THE SOUTH OF ME, GRABBG CIVILIANS AND G THEM AS HUMAN PROTECTN, I NO LONGER WANT TO STAY HERE. NOW I’M GOG TO SLEEP AND THEN PACK MY THGS. FROM WHAT I LEARNED, THE ONLY WORKG OPTN TO TRANSFER MONEY FAST NOW AND GET UKRAE CURRENTLY IS WTERN UNN.GOODNIGHT.I HAVEN’T HEARD OM HIM YET. I HOPE HE’S OKAY. I KNOW THE SUATN HAS GOTTEN WORSE. THE LAST THG I THOUGHT I’D SHARE IS THAT HE WANTED ME TO PUBLISH HIS PHOTO AND REAL NAME SPE POSSIBLE RETALIATN AFTER THE WAR. I AM DENIS, 29 YEARS OLD OM UKRAE WHO IS LEARNG ENGLISH AND TERTG UNRSTANDG AMERI. ?UPDATE: GAYNRD WAS ABLE TO RE-TABLISH NTACT WH DENIS. YOU N DONATE TO OUTRIGHT TERNATNAL HERE.

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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. Homosexualy is not illegal Ukrae, but same-sex marriag and civil partnerships are not has ed particular problems for LGBT people signg up for the ary followg Rsia's example, unr Ukraian law if someone a same-sex relatnship di, their partner nnot llect their body or bury onle petn says: "At this time, every day n be the last.

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However this do not guarantee any chang to the current law, and is not clear whether Mr Zelensky will move to legalise same-sex some efforts have been ma to protect LGBT people Ukrae - such as an anti-discrimatn law that was troduced 2015 - s LGBT muny has suffered homophobia, tolerance and 2013, the untry's first official Pri march was held Kyiv spe protts - was meant to happen the prev year, but was ncelled after a gatherg of skheads threatened source, EPAImage ptn, Activists are treated by paramedics after far-right protters threw smoke bombs to the crowd 2018But spe the risks, the Pri para has grown populary, and last year more than 7, 000 people took part a march the pal, anisers timated. Addnal reportg by Tiffany may be terted watchg:Media ptn, Viktor Pylypenko is the first Ukraian soldier to e out as gayMore on this story.

”Over the last two s, Rsian Print Vladimir Put has waged an all-out asslt on the LGBTQ muny, amg as part of a larger mpaign to protect Rsia’s “tradnal culture” om what he scrib as an onslght of morn valu promoted by the has lled genr fluidy “a crime agast humany, ” and equated homosexualy wh pedophilia. A “gay propaganda” law passed Rsia 2013 ma illegal to promote gay rights and has been ed to jail activists and shut down LGBTQ support groups. And durg a seri of anti-gay purg Rsia’s Mlim-majory Chechen Republic, which officials kidnapped, tortured and some s killed men spected of havg sex wh other men, the Kreml turned a bld the same time, life for LGBTQ people Ukrae has slowly been, wh tens of thoands of Rsian troops encirclg major Ukraian ci, gay, lbian and transgenr people are worried about what a Rsian takeover might mean for them.

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As Put has ma gay people the boogeymen for all of Rsia’s ills, Reid said, he has also fueled “a monstrable crease discrimatn and vlence. Yura Dvizhon, a director who helps n Ukrae’s annual gay pri celebratn. (Courty Yura Dvizhon) “If we were unr Rsian le, we’d have to shut our mouths, we wouldn’t be able to drs how we want, we would never have gay pri, ” said Yura Dvizhon, 29, a well-known Ukraian director.

(Daniel Leal / AFP via Getty Imag) Ukrae was never a utopia for gays and transgenr people, Dvizhon marriage is illegal Ukrae, LGBTQ people are not protected by anti-discrimatn laws, and the fluential Christian Orthodox Church views homosexualy as a s. Last year’s annual gay pri para Kyiv drew 7, 000 people — a victory, even if police were lled to fend off anti-gay protters. Opn polls show Ukraians have bee more acceptg of gay rights over the last .

In 2019, Print Volodymyr Zelensky snapped back at a homophobic heckler who had terpted his speech. ”While there are still ncrete laws — an anti-discrimatn bill foremost among them — that the natn’s LGBTQ muny is wag for, everybody knows that the suatn for gay people Rsia is “much, much, much worse, ” said Natsya Kosach, a lbian DJ Kyiv. “I know gay guys who are the Terrorial Defense [Ukrae’s ary rerve force] and nobody is sayg anythg to them.

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“This is a homophobic, transphobic place, ” she said.

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The regn has bee more homophobic sce then, she said. She believ anti-gay and trans discrimatn has s roots the Orthodox Church but also the Soviet Unn, which broke up Soviet society, nformy was prized. As Rsia ntu s asslt on Ukrae, a gay datg app is helpg LGBTQ+ refuge fleeg the nflict fd safe shelter outsi the untry.

Among several pani offerg assistance to Ukraians is a gay datg app based Germany and the Netherlands lled Romeo.

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The Rsian vasn has been particularly sry for Ukrae’s LGBTQ+ muny bee of Rsia’s abysmal rerd on gay rights, cludg s 2013 law agast “gay propaganda” that has been ed to jail gay rights groups.

But many fleeg Ukrae have ma their way to Poland, named one of the least gay-iendly untri on the ntent by ILGA-Europe, where hundreds of provc and towns clared themselv “LGBT-ee” until the EU threatened to cut off their fundg last ’s group, which offers shelter for Ukraians, has so far amassed over 10, 000 members. AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTThe role of gay soldiers, the lack of legal rights for their partners, and the threat of Rsia imposg anti-L.

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But a untry that do not regnize gay marriage or even civil unns, none of that appli to a same-sex partner.

MANY BRONS HAVE CHANGED THEIR MDS ON GAY MARRIAGE

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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. ” Amendg the Constutn requir a two-thirds vote by Dolzhenko/EPA, via ShutterstockGay rights advot say they hope that Mr.

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.

29 YEAR-OLD GAY MAN UKRAE: ‘FOR NOW I JT WANT TO BE ALIVE’ SAVAS ABADSIDIS MARCH 1, 2022SHARE I MET 29 YEAR-OLD DENIS THE TELEGRAM CHAT ROOM Гей Украина  | Знакомств (GAY UKRAE | DATG) ON SUNDAY EVENG. [EDORIAL NOTE: I LEFT MUCH OF THE NVERSATN AS IS OM INSTANT MSAGG]HE RPOND TO MY POST LOOKG TO SPEAK TO GAY MEN THE UKRAE TO GET A SENSE OF WHAT THE MOOD WAS LIKE. DENIS LIV  ZAPORIZHZHIA. IT’S A CY THE NORTHEAST RNER OF UKRAE.ABOVE: ZAPORIZHZHIA  AT NIGHT PRR TO THE RSIAN INVASN.IT’S BASILLY WHERE YOU DON’T WANT TO BE RIGHT NOW. SUATED ON THE BANKS OF THE DNIEPER WHICH NNECTS TO THE BLACK SEA, IT IS THE ADMISTRATIVE CENTRE OF THE ZAPORIZHZHIA OBLAST (OR REGN). ZAPORIZHZHIA HAS OR HAD A POPULATN OF 722,713 AS OF 2021.IT  IS KNOWN FOR S ISLAND OF KHORTYTSIA AND DNIEPER HYDROELECTRIC STATN (BELOW). IT IS ALSO AN IMPORTANT DTRIAL CENTER PRODUCG STEEL, ALUMIUM, AIRCRAFT ENG, TOMOBIL, TRANSFORMERS FOR SUBSTATNS, AND OTHER HEAVY DTRY GOODS.ON SUNDAY WAS HOT SPOT AND A VECTOR FOR LARGE NVOYS OF RSIAN TROOPS ENTERG THE UNTRY. IF YOU LOOK UP NOW, EVEN ON S WIKIPEDIA PAGE, ’S KNOWN AS  FOR THE “BATTLE OF  ZAPORIZHZHIA” THE CURRENT CREASGLY GLOBAL UKRAE WAR. SECURG THE STATN WAS A GOAL OF THE RSIANS AND ALREADY TURKISH NEWS SERVIC WERE CLAIMG HAD BEEN SEIZED. I ASKED DENIS AND HE SAID HE DIDN’T KNOW FOR CERTA, BUT HE DIDN’T BELIEVE SO.I DON’T NOW. I HOPE NOT.ARE YOU FIGHTG?WE TRY TO CREATE OBSTACL TO RSIAN MY CY SO WILL BE VERY DIFFICULT TO ME HEREHAD YOU SERVED THE ARY PRR TO THAT?NO, I’M AT HOME. I JT HELP WH ME, MY MOM AND NEIGHBORS.  SOMETIM I E GOOGLE TRANSLATE BUT I UNRSTAND MOSTLYYEAH I JT WAS TRYG TO GET A SENSE OF THE WEEK LOOKS HORRIBLE OM HERE BUT I DON’T KNOW WHAT ’S LIKE OVER THEREARE YOU WORKG FOR LGBTQ AMERI?Y. BASED NEW YORK.Y WHOLE WORLD NOW GOG CRAZY IF YOU REALLY NEED I N FD REPRENTATIVE OF LGBTQ MY CY WHO ALSO SPEAK ENGLISH.THAT WOULD ROCK. I’M JT LOOKG TO TALK AS MANY PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE.OK. I WOULD LIKE TO TALK WH YOU AND STAY TOUCH.I’VE NOTICED A LOT OF MIXED OPNS ABOUT GAY LIFE UKRAE.ABOUT GAY RIGHTS UKRAE?I’VE READ ABOUT THE LAW BUT HOW DO YOU FEEL?  IS BETTER THAN RSIA BUT IS STILL HOMOPHOBIC UNTRY. BUT WHO KNOWS, IF WE W… MAYBE WILL CHANGE.IS ZELENSKYY GOOD ON GAY ISSU? HE SEEMS TO BE VERY LIBERTARIAN.I LIVE MIDDLE SIZE CY MY GUS IS AROUND 700,000 PEOPLE. HE IS BETTER THAN PREV PRINTS Y. BUT WE DON’T HAVE ANY GAY CLUBS.HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT HIM?WHERE DO YOU GUYS HANG OUT? GRDR LIKE EVERYWHERE ELSE? I SUPPORT HIM, PECIALLY NOW, BUT HE STAYS PAL BUT HE IS TARGET NUMBER ONE.NO. GRDR IS NOT SO POPULAR UKRAE, UKRAE IS MORE POPULAR HOR APP.IS YOUR FAY RELIG? AND FEEL EE TO TELL ME TO GO FUCK MYSELF IF YOU THK I’M ASKG ANYTHG TOO PERSONAL.NOT SO REALLY, BUT MY MOM STILL KDA HOMOPHOBIC.SO IS ME.I WANT TO BE IENDS AND TALK WH YOU TIME TO TIME. WTERN UKRAE IS MORE PRO WT BUT ALSO MORE ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN AND GENERAL MORE HOMOPHOBIC.I’M NOT SURPRISED. LIKE I SAID I THK ’S EVERYWHERE YOU GOG TO FD SOME. SO MUCH OF THE US IS NOT SAFE. IN TERMS OF I WOULDN’T LIKE KISS SOMEONE MOST PART OF THE US. AND I’M NOT SURPRISED. THE WT IS CLOSE TO POLAND AND POLAND IS THE MOST RELIGNS UNTRI WTERN WORLD.I THK NEW YORK IS SAFE, AND BIG MOCRATIC CI.I’M UKRAIAN BUT HAVE A LTLE B POLAND ROOTS.WHAT’S DAILY  LIFE LIKE UNR MARTIAL LAW?PUBLIC TRANSPORT WORKS DIFFICULT. WE CURRENTLY N NOT GO OUTSI AFTER 7PM UNTIL 6AM. IN OUR STOR SHELFS ALMOST EMPTY. WE TRY TO GO TO SHELTER EVERY TIME WE HEAR ALARM. WE TRY TO HELP OUR ARY. I REMEMBER READ THERE SOME DIFFICULTI WH AIDS MEDICE FOR HIV+ PEOPLE. ABOVE: UKRAE FENS ZAPORIZHZHIA.: ABOVE: KHORTSA, ZAPORIZHZHIA, ZAPORIZHIA OBLAST, UKRAE UNSPLASH LICENSE ???? CHECK OUT MY INSTAGRAM @MAKSYM.TYMCHYKTHE NEXT TIME WE IMD DENIS TOLD ME THAT THE REPRENATIVE OF THE LOL LGBT  ANIZATN TOLD HIM THAT THEY DO NOT HAVE TIME TALK TO PRS RIGHT NOW, THAT THEIR PRRY WAS LGBT PEOPLE DANGER UKRAE.I TOLD HIM HOW I’D NEVER SEEN THE WTERN POWERS GALVANIZE AROUND THEY WAY HAVE AROUND UKRAE.THE WHOLE WORLD SEEMED.“THANK YOU,” HE SAID. HE THEN ASKED ME:MY UNRSTANDG IS YOUR SE AND ABOUT NEWS AND LGBTQ LIFE GENERAL?Y. AND NERDY STUFF. SO ICS, ART, AND NEWS ETCTECHNOLOGY?Y. THAT TOOCOOL. I LIKE TECH. ALT NEWS WH A NERDY EDGE. NICE. THERE IS A LOT OF NERDS NOWTHEN HE SENT ME THE FOLLOWG PICTURE.IS THIS FOR REAL?I TELL HIM ’S THE REPLI FRANCE.STILL OLI WAS LEARNG ENGLISH VERY OFTEN BY WATCHG AMERIN TELEVISN AND NEWS (I KNOW YOUNG PEOPLE DO NOT WATCH ) AND HAVE “BLE” OM LOL CHANNELS NYC LIKE WABC. @POLILAMERIX IN #BERDYANSK, #ZAPORIZHZHIA REGN, SOUTH #UKRAE, THE #RSIA ♬ ORIGAL SOUND – POLIL AMERIXXXI THANK YOU AND EVERYONE ON THE WT THAT DO NOT FET ABOUT MY UNTRYAND IS QUIET AWOME THAT RSIA STILL DO NOT HAVE WE HAVE SOME POWER @LUCKY_KRAY BERDYANSK, ZAPORIZHZHIA – MOTHER EXPLAED THAT WE DON’T NEED THEIR PEACE! #MORHER #WAR #RAE #NFT ♬ оригинальный звук – LUCKY_KRAY I EXPLA THAT UKRAE IS A BIG PART OF EUROPE AND  I DON’T UNRSTAND WHY SOME PEOPLE DON’T KNOW THAT. I ALSO MY FAY IS OM POLAND AND GREECE SO OF URSE I KNOW. EVEN IF STOP NOW,  ’S BEEN HORRIBLE WHAT RSIA HAS DONE.I HOPE UKRAE ULD JO EUROPE FAY.I HOPE RSIA GET RID OF PUT.DEMOCRATS OR REPUBLINS?THEY’RE GOG TO GET HIM THERE GONNA GET ALL THE OLIGARCHS. THEY’LL START SOME KD OF MOCRATIC REPUBLIC UKRAE WILL BE AT THE CENTER OF . EVERYONE IS VERY ANGRY. IT’S A SLAP THE FACE EVERYONE.I HOPE I REALLY HOPEHE’S A CRIMAL. THEY SHOULD’VE GOTTEN RID OF THEM ALL TIME AGO THEY LET FTER. THAT GOT TO THIS POT.Y, NOW THEY SUFFER OM PUT RSIA TOOOL. AND YOU KNOW, I JT HAVE TO ASK IF THERE ANY POSSIBILY TO HELP TO GO TO AMERI (PROBABLY AFTER WAR, BEE NOW CURRENTLY UKRAIAN ERNMENT DO NOT ALLOW TO MAN OM 18 TO 60 TO LIVE THE UNTRY) I WOULD LIKE TO GO TO AMERIHOPEFULLY ’S OVER SOON.BUT IF YOU ONE DAY YOU KNOW SOME WAY OR SOMEONE TO N HELP ME WH I WOULD REALLY APPRECIATE. YOU KNOW UKRAE IS TILL EXTREMELY POOR UNTRY AND QUIET HOMOPHOBIC ONE.WHAT DO AMERI MEAN TO YOU? WHY DO SPIRE YOU SO MUCH?AMERI IS LIKE ROAD MOVIE.  BIG TECH AND RPORATNS GENERAL. OPEN POSSIBILI. IT IS LIKE YOU ARE 16 YEARS OLD AGA AND EVERYTHG IS POSSIBLE. BIG ROAD, RS, HOM, PEOPLE, EVERYTHG. SUBURBIA!!!! (ALL THOSE NICE HOM) ( RSIA AND UKRAE THERE IS EVEN MEME ABOUT ). AND BIG BUILDGS. CHRISTMAS. TIME SQUARE AS REAL CROSS ROAD OF THE WORLD ????. BUT ALSO EQUALY, YOUR ZIP PENDS ON YOUR FUTURE ( IS A LTLE B DIFFERENT UKRAE AND EUROPE) DIVID SOCIETY BEE ONLY TWO PARTI WHO TEARG UNTRY APART. OPRAH ONCE SAID ‘YOU ARE ALREADY BLSED IF YOU WERE BORN AMERI’ I WOULD GIVE ANYTHG TO LIVE THERE.I LGHED AT HIS MENTN OF OPRAH.HMM FREEDOM OF CHOICE.WHAT CHOICE?TO GO AND FEEL EE EXPRS FEELG.THE RT IS A SORT OF EE ASSOCIATNS HE HAS ABOUT AMERI, SOME NEGATIVE, BUT ULTIMATELY HOPEFUL. IT’S HUMBLG AND ENARG TO HEAR.COMMERCIAL EVERYWHERE, AND ON TV (AND YOU HAVE TO PAY FOR , ISN’T EE) THERE IS MERCIAL EVERY ALMOST 5 MUT (AGA UKRAE, RSIA, EUROPE OR UK NOT SO).NO MATERNY LEAVE!! (EVEN AI THEY HAVE ) HEALTHY RE. EXTREMELY EXPENSIVE TN.SO IS A LOT MORE FOR BS NOT FOR PEOPLE BUT IS ALSO GIV MANY POSSIBILI (YOU N BE ANYTHG) AND IS REALLY POSSIBLE IN EUROPE IS NOT SO… FROM VERY BEGNG AMERI FIGHT FOR EEDOM AND POSSIBILI TO BE EE OM ROYAL AND BLUE BLOOD (EVERYBODY IS EQUAL) YOU N DO ON YOUR OWN BUT EUROPE THOSE TIM YOU HAD TO BE BLUE BLOOD. I HOPE YOU UNRSTAND ME.I DO. HEY N I ASK YOU ANOTHER QUTN? ONE THG I FD STRANGE IS HOW WILLG YOU AND YOUR UNTRYMEN SEEM TO BE TO DIE FOR YOUR UNTRY. I UNRSTAND THE SUATN, BUT SEEMS A B NIHILISTIC TO ME. HOW DO YOU FEEL THAT ASSSMENT?CREEPY. I DON’T KNOW IS UP TO YOU TO CI. ACTUALLY I’M HERE THE EAST OF UKRAE NOW SUATN ALMOST READY TO ASK YOU FOR MONEY TO HELP ME GO TO WT OF UKRAE(ON THE BORR WH POLAND AND TO BE THERE) BEE HERE UPLE DAYS PROBABLY WILL START TO BE HOT.SO YOU DON’T FEEL THAT SIRE?I DO NOT WANT TO DIERELATED: GAY UKRAIANS VOLUNTEER TO BATTLE PUT’S ANTI-LGBT RSIAN OPPRSN THE NEXT TIME WE CHATTED WAS TUDAY NIGHT. MARCH 1ST.I RECEIVED THE FOLLOWG MSAGE AROUND 9PM.HE’D TOLD ME WHEN WE STARTED CHATTG THAT BEE OF THE VASN AND MARTIAL LAW HE AND MANY OTHER PEOPLE ULDN’T GO TO WORK AND MONEY WAS NNG OUT. I ASKED HIM HOW MUCH ST TO GO TO POLAND AND HE SAID TOTAL TRAVEL ST WOULD BE ABOUT $400. I PLANNED ON GETTG THE MONEY TO HIM AND HE WAS GOG TO SEND ME A LK. HE NEVER DID.I LOOKG AT DARK STREETS OUTSI OF MY CY NOW AND I KNOW THAT RSIAN TROOPS MY REGN ALREADY, AND MANY PEOPLE ALREADY LEFT. I THOUGHT THAT I ULD S HERE, BUT AFTER I SAW THE FOOTAGE OF THE RSIAN ARY ENTERG THE CY THE CY TO THE SOUTH OF ME, GRABBG CIVILIANS AND G THEM AS HUMAN PROTECTN, I NO LONGER WANT TO STAY HERE. NOW I’M GOG TO SLEEP AND THEN PACK MY THGS. FROM WHAT I LEARNED, THE ONLY WORKG OPTN TO TRANSFER MONEY FAST NOW AND GET UKRAE CURRENTLY IS WTERN UNN.GOODNIGHT.I HAVEN’T HEARD OM HIM YET. I HOPE HE’S OKAY. I KNOW THE SUATN HAS GOTTEN WORSE. THE LAST THG I THOUGHT I’D SHARE IS THAT HE WANTED ME TO PUBLISH HIS PHOTO AND REAL NAME SPE POSSIBLE RETALIATN AFTER THE WAR. I AM DENIS, 29 YEARS OLD OM UKRAE WHO IS LEARNG ENGLISH AND TERTG UNRSTANDG AMERI. ?UPDATE: GAYNRD WAS ABLE TO RE-TABLISH NTACT WH DENIS. YOU N DONATE TO OUTRIGHT TERNATNAL HERE.

“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. Zelensky’s own party, who have lled for a law fg “homosexual propaganda. 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.