Life for LGBTQ people Ukrae had been improvg, while Rsian Print Vladimir Put has systematilly attacked gay and transgenr people.
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- LGBT RIGHTS AI: WILL KENYA BE THE LATT TO PASS ANTI-GAY LAW?
- UGANDA'S LGBTQ MUNY IS ' SHOCK' OVER NEW MEASURE, GAY ACTIVIST SAYS
LGBT RIGHTS AI: WILL KENYA BE THE LATT TO PASS ANTI-GAY LAW?
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In December 2022, Rsia expand s existg “gay propaganda” law to exert ntrol over public discsns and narrativ surroundg non-heterosexual relatnships and inti.
Ukrae legalized homosexualy after the fall of the Soviet Unn, but anti-LGBTQ attus and laws rema place the untry. He started wh a script they regnised, talkg about his Soviet-era KGB trag, his relig beliefs and his “personal opn about LGBT people” then he announced his wholehearted support for the legislatn, referencg Vladimir Put’s homophobic claim that there are no gay Rsians.
UGANDA'S LGBTQ MUNY IS ' SHOCK' OVER NEW MEASURE, GAY ACTIVIST SAYS
Thoands of people cludg soldiers and diplomats marched peacefully through the Ukraian pal on Sunday an annual gay pri para spe some opposn to an event lled off last year bee of the ronavis panmic. * gay rights in ukraine *
” Inna Sovsun, the MP who drafted the law and is now tryg to shepherd through parliament, said Kozhemiak’s speech was “the most unexpected thg my polil reer” would prefer alli who embrace the moral argument for equal marriage, but fac an uphill stggle to get the law passed, and that day showed “there are people who n support the bill for different reasons” began workg on the legislatn soon after Mosw sent s troops across the borr; the war ma the fight for LGBT rights even more urgent when Ukraians were dyg for their team were fundraisg for equipment to support a gay iend who had enlisted the ary, when they realised that her posn parliament meant she uld support him other the law, they aimed to show him – and all LGBT soldiers fightg for Ukrae – that the untry he is willg to die for is one “that rpects him for his valu and who he is”, she said. Ukrae has ma huge progrs on LGBT rights, but homophobia is still rife, gay soldiers are often badly bullied even on the ontl, and the nstutn f marriage as between a man and a nnot be altered when the untry is at war, a legal bd that the ernment of Volodymyr Zelenskiy has ed to flect lls for equal rights for the soldiers fightg and dyg to protect .
“We need to pass this law durg the wartime, to make our soldiers the battlefield feel more nfint, ” said Maksym Potapovych, of the mpaign group LGBT Milary, which shar photos and stori of gay fighters. Those are not abstract gay Ukraians are not out to their fai, or have been rejected by them.