'We’re helping each other, we're staying together...People are not coming back to the closet.' As the Russian invasion enters its second week, queer Ukrainians are fighting back.
Shevchenko, who leads the LGBTQ organization Insight, was not just voicing the heartbreak of watching her city destroyed, feeling the bomb blasts in downtown Kyiv. Or fearing what the prospect of Russian occupation might mean for her and other queer activists. It sounded like she had lost faith, questioning whether all the tools she had used over years of fighting for LGBTQ rights, Ukrainian self-determination, and democracy had proved futile.
People attend the annual KyivPride gay parade as riot police provide security in Kyiv, Ukraine on 19 September 2021. LGBTQ people, human right activists and their supporters took part in the annual Kyiv Pride gay parade event amid a heavy police presence, while right-wing protesters tried to stop the event.
“Now the fight [is] between East and West, Russia and Europe—Ukraine is the field of the battle,” she told me at the time., “Association with the EU means same-sex marriage,” funded by the Putin-aligned oligarch Protesters picketing against closer ties with the E.U. carried signs showing stick figures engaged in anal sex and chanted slogans like “” a Russian rhyme that literally translates as “Go to Europe through the ass.
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