Russia’s violent history toward the LGBTQ+ community has many worried that anti-queer violence will be meted out in Ukraine. | byadamrhodes
As explosions rock cities across Ukraine and air raid alarms pierce the air in Kyiv, a city Alex Burlakov once called home, he thinks of his sister, his niece and nephew, and his mother there. He says he also fears for the queer Ukrainians who could be tortured and killed under Putin’s regime.
Burlakov was born in Makiyivka, a city in the Donetsk region of Ukraine, and moved to the U.S. in 2016. Now living in Chicago, he’s a member of the activist group LGBTQ Ukrainians in America and is among those raising the alarm for what Russia’s invasion means for LGBTQ+ people there, in light of Russian president Vladimir Putin’s long-standing repression of the community.agreed not to identify because she has not come out.
Bogdan Globa, co-founder of QUA, said in a press release that previous Russian conquests have had disastrous effects on queer rights in Eastern Europe. When Russia annexed Crimea—then a semi-autonomous region in southern Ukraine—in 2014, Globa says queer rights were quickly under siege.
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