“This is a war for human rights”: Ukrainian LGBT community struggles to survive

Lenny Emson may have left the Ukraine a few months ago.

Despite her identity, her passport has an “F” for female. This means that the state of war does not prevent you from leaving the country.

When his wife asked him to go to Canada, he said no.

He was left on the ground when the invading army was miles away from the capital and millions of people were marching towards the border.

“My team is in Kieu,” he said. I kept everything. We have all decided to stay in our community, serve and serve our country.

His organization, Kyiv Pride, is involved in the day-to-day fight to ensure the survival of the LGBTQ+ community in Vladimirputin’s illegal war.

The metro will bring them together this month to support the work they are doing to help the most vulnerable in Ukraine. Here you can donate your case.

This year marks the tenth anniversary of the celebration of activists and supporters, celebrated in thousands of local processions.

Instead, Kyiv was restricted during the war, society is at stake, and demonstrations will be held in Warsaw, 400 miles away every year.

Many of the campaigns and promotional activities carried out by an organization must take place in the background when a new attack is launched on February 24.

Until now, only the issue of life or death is the topic.

Lenin said: The war forced us to completely reorganize our work.

“In the context of Russian aggression, the greatest need of society is to get help.

“First, we have to help them survive.”

Kyiv Pride has opened a new shelter that provides emergency accommodation for people who are homeless or homeless as a result of LGBTQ+ combat, especially those who disagree with their families.

They have provided food, money and assistance to people who do not need to be contacted by anyone. So far, about 70 people have been helped.

Before the new shelter opened, it meant an accident in his office. Currently, they have a dedicated center with a staff of 5 that can accommodate up to 20 people at a time.

Gay rights and trance have come a long way in Ukraine since the collapse of the Soviet Union, but much remains to be done.

Lenny said: “When I was a college student, I almost got arrested for kissing my girlfriend on the street.

“But ten years later, people became freer to act. Twenty years later, when they saw young girls holding hands on the street, they weren’t afraid of anything.

“I think this is a big step forward.”

Homosexuality was criminalized in Ukraine in 1991 and its first campaign group officially appeared in 1993.

Things have progressed rapidly since the Euromaidan Revolution ousted the Promoskov administration in 2014 and it has maintained close ties with Europe.

A year later, the Ukrainian government created a new human rights charter aimed at preventing discrimination. A year later, new rules came into force that allowed people in a trance to change their sexual status more freely.

The same-sex marriage bill did not pass Congress, but Lenny did not consider it a failure.

“We are talking to the Ukrainian government now, and they are talking to us,” he said.

But hopes for further legal progress were shattered by the war and consumed by existential struggles over Ukraine’s future.

An important part of the law that defines anti-LGBTQ+ hate crimes that Lenny and other activists have fought hard against is unclear.

He said this is a perfect example of why victory is essential for the benefit of his society, the war he says is not a war for Ukraine, but a war for human rights.

The national movement continues to face fierce opposition from minorities, including the far-right group, which believes that Lenin is “funded by Russia”.

They can use this opportunity to transport activists across the country and threaten to show pride everywhere.

He told Metro: “If you look at the general picture of Ukraine, there are not that many, but it is very active.

“They are very violent and attack almost all LGBTQ+ activities.

“What they are doing is far from being non-violent protests. They are attacking our people, using pepper spray and beating people up.

“We’ve been fighting them for years. Tom and Jerry play cat and mouse.”

The hate crime bill will impose harsher penalties for their actions.

It is unlikely that it will happen until the end of the war.

Putin supporters and the far-right group have proposed the “running like a mouse” story from LGBTQ+ Ukraine, but Lenny said the truth can’t be far from the truth.

He said that the Western media is focusing on the stories of those who have left their country.

In fact, most of them remain to overcome the crisis in Ukraine and are actively participating.

Lenin said:

“This is our little victory. As a movement, we have never been more united than when this war hit us.

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