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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.

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"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. Many have also ced Rsia’s ntroversial anti-gay “propaganda” laws, as well as s mov to ban same-sex marriage and trans adoptn last year, as signs that thgs uld change drastilly for queer and trans people if the vasn is succsful. The Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual Trans and Intersex Associatn (ILGA) is promotg LGBTQ+ anizatns the Ukrae and neighbourg untri on s webse, which clus tails on how to donate.

The untry is also famo for s “gay propaganda” law, which was signed by Rsian Print Vladimir Put June 2013 and prohibs the distributn/marketg of any LGBTQ ntent emed “harmful” to mors.

Homosexualy punishable by ath some Ain natnsAttu ntrasts wh progrsive stanc on women, refugeA member of the South Ain Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr and Intersex muny  Durban, South Ai. In Poland, “gay upl n’t marry, form civil unns or adopt children.

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” Sadly, a 2019 poll of Polish cizens found that almost a quarter believed that “homosexualy mt not be tolerated. In 2013, Rsia passed the “gay propaganda” law, makg all LGBTQ+ advocy illegal. Leave to a gay datg app to help people fe unexpected nnectns.

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

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.

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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. Gay and trans people are allowed to jo the ary Ukrae and have been takg part the fence of the untry, he said. Haton Hall has offered a FREE TWIN / DOUBLE ROOM for 6 months or more to the ernment partment lookg to hoe refug om mt be tons of gay men pg; - if they are not suppose to stay behd and fight;- and a uple or two sgl will be offered a home here as a safe place to ri while they eher wa out the war and return home, or stay the UK and bee a cizen.

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

Whatever the se, this is the time to touch ep down wh your soul and ask yourself what would be like to live a untry that was at war wh a homophobic bully ( Put and Rsia) and you are 'on the n' leavg everythg you know behd you.

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