Russia’s military assault sent shockwaves through Ukraine’s LGBTQ+ community, partly because President Vladimir Putin has curtailed the rights of LGBTQ+…
* Campaigners hope war could erode lingering homophobiaMarch 18 – Before Russia invaded Ukraine three weeks ago, Oleg used to get up early every day to walk his dogs along the wide, French-inspired boulevards of the capital, Kyiv.But three days after Russian tanks rolled across the border, Oleg, a 22-year-old bisexual man and former beer sommelier, began a very different life – signing up to serve in the Ukrainian armed forces along with his father.
LGBTQ+ people had been allowed to serve in the military in Ukraine before the war, with the first dedicated battalion founded in 2019 even joining the Kyiv Pride march that year.Article content Instead, the non-binary 23-year-old – who identifies neither as male nor female – joined Ukraine’s territorial defense force, the military reserve of the country’s armed forces.
Kyiv’s 2015 Pride parade was disrupted by violent https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-ukraine-lgbt-idUKKBN0OM0DP20150606 attacks. “We’ve received messages from far-right groups calling us undercover agents and telling us to flee the country, blaming us for not doing anything for Ukraine,” Emson said.“One of the instructors, when he noticed my nails at first, told me: ‘I hope you are just an esthetic person’,” Dmytro said, meaning artistic rather than gay.Article content
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