A gang of young men vicly set upon a group of gay iends Ukrae's pal, stabbg one wh such force he required surgery. The gang has yet to be charged wh any crime.
Contents:
- GAY MEN TARGETED IN BTAL HOMOPHOBIC ATTACK IN KIEV SPEAK OUT
- GANG OF MASKED NEO-NAZI THUGS VLENTLY ATTACK GAY BAR BONE-CHILLG VIO
- KIEV GAY PRI MARCH ATTACKED, 'HOOLIGANS' ARRTED: UKRAE OFFICIALS
- LGBTQ REFUGE FLEEG UKRAE FACE DISCRIMATN UNTRI WH ANTI-GAY LAWS
- GAY PRI MARCH ATTACKED IN KYIV
- UKRAE GAY PRI PARA ATTACKED WH STON, SMOKE BOMBS
- RSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH LEAR BLAM INVASN ON UKRAE'S 'GAY PRI'
GAY MEN TARGETED IN BTAL HOMOPHOBIC ATTACK IN KIEV SPEAK OUT
Life for LGBTQ people Ukrae had been improvg, while Rsian Print Vladimir Put has systematilly attacked gay and transgenr people. * ukrainian gay wagon getting attacked *
”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. 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.
GANG OF MASKED NEO-NAZI THUGS VLENTLY ATTACK GAY BAR BONE-CHILLG VIO
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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.
KIEV GAY PRI MARCH ATTACKED, 'HOOLIGANS' ARRTED: UKRAE OFFICIALS
A group of thugs believed to be neo-Nazis were ught on mera vlently attackg a gay bar overnight Kyiv, Ukrae. * ukrainian gay wagon getting attacked *
(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.
LGBTQ REFUGE FLEEG UKRAE FACE DISCRIMATN UNTRI WH ANTI-GAY LAWS
Several dozen unknown assailants attacked a gay march Kiev, Ukrae, throwg flar and woundg two policemen, a Rters wns reported. * ukrainian gay wagon getting attacked *
”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. “This is a homophobic, transphobic place, ” she said.
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. On Thursday morng at about 5 am, a group of five Ukraian gay iends me out of a nightclub and stopped by a bench on the central avenue of Khrhchatyk Kiev to have a smoke and chat.
GAY PRI MARCH ATTACKED IN KYIV
Several dozen assailants attacked a gay pri march Kyiv on June 6, throwg flar and woundg several police officers. * ukrainian gay wagon getting attacked *
There have been dozens of homophobic attacks Ukrae the past year, and another was about to unfold the heart of the untry's dnk young men approached the iends, yellg: “Faggots! ” One of the gay men, 22-year-old Yevgeny Ogurtsov, was wearg a lorful T-shirt tucked a pair of checked pants. Ogurtskov tried to lm down the attackers va: the strangers were heated by their avoid an latn of the vlence, the gay iends tried to walk away but the attackers followed them.
Eventually, police arrted the attackers, who sisted that they had not done anythg wrong, that the gay men served to be punished.
“Ukrae should treat the attack on me as a ser precent of homophobia. ”The thugs who stabbed me yelled that we, gays, did not serve to live. “We are very ncerned about the growg vlence; 2017 we unted 226 homophobic attacks on LGBT people Ukrae, ” Sophia Lapa, a human rights fenr om the “Our World” LGBT anizatn told The Daily Beast.
UKRAE GAY PRI PARA ATTACKED WH STON, SMOKE BOMBS
Feelg disillned about the ernment’s difference to creasg homophobia, the Ukraian LGBT movement has grown more anized s polil strategi. “So far we have not seen a sgle se Ukrae’s urts agast vlent homophob, so hopefully this time thori will pay attentn to the attack on our iends, on Ogurtsov, ” Lapa said. The untry’s 'gay propaganda' law bans children om beg shown ntent about our liv.
The horrors of the 'gay purge' Chechnya stand out as a ighteng event recent Rsian history.
RSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH LEAR BLAM INVASN ON UKRAE'S 'GAY PRI'
Rsia has a list of “journalists, activists and gay rights advot. MORE FROM FORBESAn Edor Told Me To 'Stop Pchg Gay Stori' - This Is What I DidBy Jamie Wareham. Camera footage shows several people dark cloth attackg HvLv, a gay bar Kiev, Ukrae.
A group of thugs believed to be neo-Nazis were ught on mera vlently attackg a gay bar Kyiv, Ukrae. HvLv bar was swarmed by an timated 20 masked men wearg dark cloth who shouted homophobic slurs and stroyed the outsi area of the bar last Friday (26 November) eveng, acrdg to RT. Police later arrted 12 men relatn to the gay bar attack, reported Ukrae publitn the Village.