Gay Datg Ukrae - AllMale

Contents:

• LGBTQ REFUGE FLEEG UKRAE FACE DISCRIMATN UNTRI WH ANTI-GAY LAWS
• GAY DATG UKRAE
• GAY SURROGACY UKRAE
• SURROGACY FOR GAY PARENTS, COUNTRY BY COUNTRY

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

”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. Yura Dvizhon, a director who helps n Ukrae’s annual gay pri celebratn.

GAY DATG UKRAE

(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. (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.

GAY SURROGACY UKRAE

”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. 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.

SURROGACY FOR GAY PARENTS, COUNTRY BY COUNTRY

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.

(Corrects to say Ukrae Pri based Kyiv, not Lviv, paragraph 20)* LGBTQ+ Ukraians heed print’s ll to jo ary* Campaigners hope war uld ero lgerg homophobia* Far-right supporters also signg up to fight RsiaBy Enrique AnarteMarch 18 (Thomson Rters Foundatn) - Before Rsia vad Ukrae three weeks ago, Oleg ed to get up early every day to walk his dogs along the wi, French-spired boulevards of the pal, had been planng a cyclg trip to Ossa on the untry’s Black Sea three days after Rsian tanks rolled across the borr, Oleg, a 22-year-old bisexual man and former beer sommelier, began a very different life - signg up to serve the Ukraian armed forc along wh his father. ”Ukrae legalised gay sex 1991, but nservative elements the maly Orthodox Christian natn often speak out agast rights for LGBTQ+ people, and members of the far-right regularly target groups and events lked to the 's 2015 Pri para was dispted by vlent here now LGBTQ+ people are signg up to fight, activists hope war uld help ero lgerg prejudice. ”Homophobic groups and dividuals have also joed the Ukraian army, said Lenny Emson, director of Kyiv Pri, an LGBTQ+ rights group based the pal.

“One of the stctors, when he noticed my nails at first, told me: ‘I hope you are jt an athetic person’, ” Dmytro said, meang artistic rather than gay. ’”Six same-sex soldier upl have got engaged sce the war began - some hopg gay marriage will soon be legalised, acrdg to the Unn of the LGBT, WIN THE WARBut some doubt whether signs of growg acceptance will outlast the nflict.

“When the war is over, I thk we will have to fight for human rights aga, ” Vladislav, a 25-year-old gay soldier, told the Thomson Rters Foundatn om Kyiv. A Rsian occupatn might make thgs worse, rights mpaigners, where a law agast “gay propaganda” has been ed to ban Pri march and ta activists, ranks 46th Europe for LGBTQ+ legal protectns, acrdg to the ILGA-Europe to the Rsian asslt, foreign news anisatns quoted unnamed U. Telligence officials warned that Rsian forc might target gay Ukraians specifilly.

Homosexualy is a crimal offense Rsian-occupied Luhansk.