Ukrae’s gay soldiers fight Rsia—and for their rights

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PoliFact's lg: FalseHere's why: An image of an LGBTQ pri flag that rporated Ukrae’s yellow and blue lors is circulatg on social media as if were an official gay pri flag, wh ers sharg the image and mockg the addn. ""I’m startg to thk this isn’t about gay rights anymore, " a person on Twter said. "The image appears to have origated wh a Twter acunt wh a gay slur s handle as a means of mockg LGBTQ activists’ efforts to monstrate people are faiar wh the rabow flag as a symbol of gay rights and the LGBTQ muny.

June is the tradnal month when gay pri is celebrated and rabow flags abound.

In 2018, trans activists add a chevron and more lors to the rabow flag and lled the progrs pri flag, to specifilly clu transgenr people, people of lor and AIDS associated wh and ed by the LGBTQ muny have been a state of evolutn sce the origal rabow flag was created by Gilbert Baker for the 1978 Gay Freedom Day Para San Francis.

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It’s important to note that there isn’t one official gay pri flag. Members of Ukrae's LGBTQ muny who sign up for the war have taken to sewg the image of the mythil beast to their standard-issue eplett jt below the natnal practice harks back to the 2014 nflict when Rsia vad then annexed the Crimean Pensula om Ukrae, "when lots of people said there are no gay people the army, " actor, director and drama teacher Zhuhan told Rters as he and Romanova drsed their apartment for their send three-month bat rotatn.

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"So they (the lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer muny) chose the unirn bee is like a fantastic 'non-existent' creature. "Zhuhan's unease lifts as one manr mak clear his refal to tolerate homophobia, and a more senr officer says the only important thg on the ont le is to be a good fighter, he subsequently tells Rters by one overridg fear, voiced back their apartment, remas. It appears to have been first posted by a Twter acunt that ed a gay slur s handle on May 22 rponse to a tweet om an anti-racism group that ed the hashtag #diversyisourstrength.

As Natnal Geographic noted, was mon to e the acronym LGB the 1990s to refer to lbian, gay and bisexual people. Named the "Gay Pri Flag" by the advocy group OutRight Actn Internatnal, the origal rabow flag wh eight lors was signed by Gilbert Baker for the 1978 Gay Freedom Day Para San Francis. An activist's silhouette is seen through a rabow flag durg a gay pri para Kyiv on May 25, 2013.

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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.

"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.