The Congressional LGBT Equality Caucus urged the Ukrainian government today to take measures to safeguard the celebration of LGBT Pride in Odessa this month. “On behalf of the LGBT Equality Caucus, I commend the leadership of Ukraine for actions taken to ensure that Kiev’s Pride celebrations were able to take place in an atmosphere of…
Today, the Ukrainian Parliament passed nondiscrimination legislation that will provide needed workplace protections for LGBT citizens and others throughout the country. The bill, which introduces a new clause to Ukraine’s Labor Code, aims to protect a wide range of people seeking to work free from discrimination and abuse in the country. The legislation was part…
After two social experiment videos from Russia and the Ukraine, where a gay couple walking in the streets was insulted and attacked, two Portuguese men decided to conduct the same experiment in their capital city Lisbon. The pair, Lorenzo and Pedro, said, “The result [in Moscow and Kiev] was primitive, sad and disgusting. It was…
Stunning Eurovision winner Loreen and Ukrainian band Kazaky recently performed on Swedish TV show Melodifestivalen 2015. The artists presented Loreen’s brand new single “Paper Light (Higher)” and devoted their creative collaboration to the struggle for equality. Check out the video above!
It wasn’t supposed to begin like this. But exactly 14 months to the day after the Euromaidan protests, the Ukraine, unburdened by the heavy-handed influence of Russia, has seen a rise in homophobia and a willingness by the country’s relatively liberal gay community to squash equally revolutionary tactics for wider acceptance. In a thought-provoking piece…
Not much good news coming out of Ukraine these days. However that hasn’t stopped Ukrainian band, Kazaky’s creative talent from flowing. Their new music video “Pulse” includes all the recognizable symbols of the Ukrainian band: boys in high heels, choreography, minimalistic beat and fetish images and is released ahead of their new tour which starts…
The devastating loss of noted Dutch AIDS researcher, Joep Lange, who died in the recent downing of a Malaysia Airlines flight in the skies over Ukraine may turn out to be just one of multiple tragedies surrounding the air disaster that have special relevance to LGBT people and our allies. The horrifying downing of a…
It was supposed to be the gay pride parade they had hoped for last year when the country’s first ever celebration of Pride was overshadowed by a media focused on anti-gay rhetoric. But for most members of the burgeoning LGBT Ukrainian community, Saturday’s festival was a secretive affair marred by security concerns, the politics of…
The World Congress of Families is moving full speed ahead with plans to hold an international anti-LGBT conference at the Kremlin in Moscow this fall, despite the growing international crisis in Ukraine and the withdrawal of key conference partner Concerned Women for America over concerns that holding the conference would give the appearance of “giving…
KYIV, Ukraine, — Ukraine’s political establishment has reacted with dismay to comments made Friday by the leader of the ultra-nationalist Svoboda Party, Oleh Tyahnybok, who targeted the sexuality of German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle. Westerwelle was in Kiev for a round of meetings with President Viktor Yanukovych and Opposition parties. He also met with Batkivshchyna (Fatherland) leader Arseniy Yatsenyuk and…
