'If the Russian army and the Russian soldiers are in any of the cities and they know somebody by name and by face in the LGBTQ+ community those people will be targeted directly and I'm afraid they might be killed.'
A Bay Area family finally got approval to adopt a Ukrainian girl, but then Russia invaded the country and everything changed.
He's shown up at handfuls of fundraising events, helping to raise tens of thousands of dollars within the LGBTQ+ community. The money going to nonprofits like LIGA in Ukraine. Andrii Zarytskyi is a director of LIGA. He says,"We help the community to survive - to stay alive. We help people to relocate from places where there are heavy bombings or shellings.""A lot of people just like everywhere else had to leave their families because they're not accepted," said Zarytskyi.The nonprofit is helping provide everything from food to shelter - to those within the community - explaining that often LGBTQ+ Ukrainians are estranged from family.
"I can only imagine how hard it is for those people because the situation is terrible as it and the fact that they're not accepted and this shows again they are not accepted as who they are," said Zarytskyi.
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