Ukraine: is there hope in Orange?(INTERNATIONAL SPECTRUM)

From: The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide | Date: March 1, 2005| Author: Kitlinski, Tomasz | Copyright information

"WE'RE left outside Ukrainian politics," lesbian activist Natalia Nahorna told me in an interview. "People are not tolerant to minorities here. It will take years to change." Nahorna has done research on lesbian life in Ukraine and organized the country's 2003 pride parade. In the same Independence Square where the Orange opposition successfully overturned Ukraine's fraudulent election in late 2004, counter-demonstrators waved banners a year earlier with such slogans as "Deviants g...

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