by Beth Holmes | Oct 10, 2022 | Civil Rights, Human Rights, International, LGBT community, News, Politics, Power LGBT, Transgender
Kharkiv had its pride parade, stepping over bomb damage in the streets as the LGBT population of Ukraine worried about what will come next. Ukraine doesn’t recognize any kind of same-sex union, bans same-sex couples from adopting, refused to back an EU domestic...
by Beth Holmes | Mar 7, 2022 | Civil Rights, Equality, Gay and Lesbian, Homophobia, Human Rights, International, LGBT community, LGBTQIA+, News, Politics, Power LGBT, Queer Community, Religion, Sexuality, Transgender, Women's Rights
LGBT Ukrainians fight for a country that disdains them, because Russia is certainly worse. Ukraine decriminalized same-sex sexual activity in the 1990s and allows trans people over 25 to legally change their gender, allows LGBT people to serve in the military and...
by Beth Holmes | Sep 20, 2021 | Civil Rights, Homophobia, Human Rights, International
The March for Equality in Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, is an annual event, held in the fall shortly after students return to school. It is an event to support the push for LGBT rights in the generally conservative county. Ukraine decriminalized same-sex sexual...
by admin | May 10, 2016 | Equality, LGBTQIA+, News
LGBT historians in a future Ukraine may well regard April 9th, 2016 as a date of note. On that Saturday, the first visible gay wedding took place in Kyiv, Ukraine. Zoryan Kis and Tymur Levchuk decided a year ago that they weren’t content to wait for the...
by admin | Nov 25, 2013 | Articles, Equality, Gender, Women's Rights
Would you take off your shirt and bra as a protest against persecution of women? That’s what the women of feminist activist group Femen do. The group has taken part in similar protests all around the world – from Berlin to New York and Istanbul. The group,...