Ukraine just held its first Pride event in years despite Russia's continued invasion - LGBTQ Nation
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The military and a secret whisper campaign helped ensure the event's success.
  • febra@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    18 days ago

    And it got attacked by a ton of fascists. The videos are horrible. Not only that, but due to security threats the parade had to be limited quite a lot.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldMEnglish
      01·
      18 days ago

      That really, really sucks.

      However, in Russia, the fascists attacking them would be police and the people marching would all be in prison now, if not dead… so as awful as it is in Ukraine, it’s even worse for the queer people in the country invading them.

      So let’s hope it continues to be legal to be queer in Ukraine, hard as it is.

      • lennybird@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        18 days ago

        Back in the day there existed Current TV and before Vice documentaries were a thing there was Vanguard — out of which came some awesome investigative journalists. One of the pieces they did was From Russia, With Hate which documented the rising neo-nazi anti-immigrant sentiment in Russia. In essence we knew Russia was a shit-hole then, and it’s of course an earlier stepping-stone to compare to in terms our own nation’s direction.