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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- LGBTQ REFUGE FLEEG UKRAE FACE DISCRIMATN UNTRI WH ANTI-GAY LAWS
- LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
- GAY KIEV
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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.
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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. “We need to make sure that LGBT people fleeg Ukrae fd themselv a safe space, ” says Vyachlav Melnyk, the executive director of the Polish LGBTQ advocy group Campaign Agast Homophobia.
In their rankg of LGBTQ rights Europe, the advocy group the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn, or ILGA-Europe, ranks Hungary 28th and Poland 43rd out of 49 untri. Polish advocy groups like the Campaign Agast Homophobia and Lambda Warsaw have anized databas where refuge n be matched wh LGBTQ-iendly hom. Telligence officials warned that Rsian forc might target gay Ukraians specifilly.
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Homosexualy is a crimal offense Rsian-occupied Luhansk.
Samozdra refed to operate, went to hidg — and eventually fled to Kyiv, where homosexualy is legal, and where gay life has thrived, pecially recent years.