An event that lasted 15 minutes before it was invaded by the Nazis that we are told are not in Ukraine. At another pride event they went through the crowd checking papers for conscription eligibility
So instead of fighting for their country, they chose to dress up in costumes and make complete fools of themselves in the street, as if that would somehow distract everyone from their cowardice.
Ohmagad war is happening let’s stop everything because WAR WE MUST THINK ABOUT THE WAR ONLY
Newsflash, people keep on living their life, even during war. That’s part of trying to normalize their life when deplorable shit is going on a few hundred kilometers to the east.
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.
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.
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.
Being queer in Russia is worse, that’s true. But I don’t see the point here. Ukraine has a lot of work left to do. One can’t always look at worse places and deflect the criticism. You could’ve very well mentioned Qatar or Brunei. Doesn’t make it any better.
They are comparing them because Russia’s justification for the war was that Ukraine is full of fascists and Russia isn’t (bs). We should be able to criticise bad stuff without comparing it however.
The point is exactly that they’re trying. Despite the parade being attacked, the democratically elected government, and the police as an institution are supporting them. That is the essence of working towards freedom of expression and progress: The fact that the people in the parade are permitted by the government to express themselves, and protected by the government when they do so, even if popular opinion may be against them.
Literally had to be protected by the military. It’s weird how that lead got so heavily buried. Imagine if this story had been written about Mexico or Brazil or China.
Hey wait a minute, Russia said that Ukraine is full of nazis, and now Ukraine is hosting a pride event, does that mean they are showing “Springtime for hitler”?
Funny you should say that, because if you actually read the article, the event had to be organized in secret to avoid being targeted by far right groups and then dispersed after 30 minutes because those far-right groups showed up to attack anyway.
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