Munich-Ukrainian Picnic Talk

We enter the 6th year of war and luckily activists from Ukraine will join MunichPride once again. They are all fighting: for their country, their lives, for freedom, as well as for visibility and acceptance of LGBTIQ*, of course. Let’s have a snack: Thursday, 25 June, 6.30 p.m., at LeZ.

We want to talk and learn from each other, from our struggles and our history. How are queer people in Ukraine right now? What’s our business in Munich?

Foto vom Picknick Talk im LeZ 2023
Our first Picnic Talk at LeZ 2023. Photo: MKQ
Picknick Talk im LeZ 2023
Our first Picnic Talk at LeZ 2023. Photo: MKQ

Meet people from Kyiv, Odesa, Kharkiv, Zhytomyr and Munich. Bring your food to the picnic talk of Munich Kyiv Queer. We have invited (in alphabetical order):

  • N.N., KyivPride, Kyiv
  • Olena Hanich, Gay Alliance Ukraine, Kyiv/Odesa
  • Serhii Kharchuk, Norma Vita, Kherson/Odesa
  • Yakiv Lavrynets, Sphere, Kharkiv
  • Mariia Maruzhenko, Tochka Opori, Kyiv
  • Oleksandra Semenova, You are not alone, Zhytomyr

When: Thursday, 25 June 2026, 6.30 p.m.
Where: LeZ, Müllerstraße 26
Organized by: Munich Kyiv Queer, LeZ, CSD München, Cultural Department of the City of Munich

This is how you can help

INDIVIDUAL HELP Munich Kyiv Queer has its own fundraising campaign via https://www.paypal.me/ConradBreyer to support queer people in Ukraine who are in need or on the run. Why? Because not all LGBTIQ* are organised in the local LGBTIQ*-groups. This help is direct, fast and free of charge if you choose the option “For friends and family” on PayPal. If you don’t have PayPal, you can alternatively send money to the private account of Conrad Breyer, speaker of Munich Kyiv Queer, IBAN: DE427015000021121454.

All requests from the community are meticulously checked in cooperation with our partner organisations in Ukraine. If they can help themselves, they take over. If the demands for help exceed their (financial and/or material) possibilities, we will step in.

HELP FOR LGBTIQ* ORGANISATIONS To support LGBTIQ* in Ukraine we have helped set up the Alliance Queer Emergency Aid Ukraine, in which around 40 German LGBTIQ* Human Rights organisations are involved. All these groups have access to very different Human Rights organisations in Ukraine and use funds for urgently needed care or evacuation of queer people. Every donation helps and is used 100 percent to benefit queer people in Ukraine. Donate here

VULNERABLE GROUP And here you can find out why queer people in war need our support.

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