The role of gay soldiers, the lack of legal rights for their partners, and the threat of Rsia imposg anti-L.G.B.T. polici have turned the war to a talyst for change Ukrae.
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- ZELENSKY FLOATS CIVIL UNNS AMID GAY MARRIAGE PH UKRAE
- MANY BRONS HAVE CHANGED THEIR MDS ON GAY MARRIAGE
ZELENSKY FLOATS CIVIL UNNS AMID GAY MARRIAGE PH UKRAE
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MANY BRONS HAVE CHANGED THEIR MDS ON GAY MARRIAGE
Life for LGBTQ people Ukrae had been improvg, while Rsian Print Vladimir Put has systematilly attacked gay and transgenr people. * ukraine gay marriage bill *
Zelensky said he didn’t want to say “anythg negative” about Ukrae’s LGBTQ+ muny rponse to a homophobic heckler durg a 2019 prs nference. ” He has also e unr fire om gay rights groups Ukrae for not dismissg Oleksiy Artovych, one of his clost advisors who last month said members of the LGBTQ+ muny are “viant. Homosexualy has been legal Ukrae sce 1991, but same-sex partnerships are not lawfully regnized.
Ukrae legalized homosexualy after the fall of the Soviet Unn, but anti-LGBTQ attus and laws rema place the untry.