The LGBTI*-Communities of the sister cities Munich and Kyiv have been working closely together for a number of years now. Citizens of Munich were there when Kyiv held its first ever Pride, and many members of our communities have since taken part in the various exchanges and volunteer training...
On the eve of the International Day Against Homo-, Bi-, Inter*- and Trans*-Phobia IDAHoBIT, the NGO Gender Z from the city of Zaporizhzhia held its annual street rally, Rainbow Flash Mob, under the motto “One Hundred Meters of Pride”. Around 80 brave Zaporizhians gathered at the square near the...
Over 150 LGBTI-people and allies held a Pride March in Odesa, the biggest city in the South of Ukraine. Munich made its point. Read the report from Olena Semenova, member of Munich Kyiv Queer, press spokesperson for OdesaPride. The motto of OdesaPride 2018 is, “We Value Our Families”. The...
25 people from Munich travelled to KyivPride 2018. The delegation of the lesbian, gay, bi*, trans* and inter* community from Munich has never been so large and colourful. In our KyivPride Diary we report about our adventures. Text: Sezgin Inceel I must admit, I had not known much about...
Despite her initial reluctance, Olga Rubtsova has been director of Ukraine’s first lesbigay choir, Qwerty Queer, since it was founded four years ago. These days, it is seen as a role model for other LGBTI* choirs in the country and is also famous beyond the community. The idea that...
In 2017 the position of the Ukrainian LGBT community and the attitude of Ukrainian society and the state towards LGBT issues do not demonstrate any fundamental changes in comparison to the previous year. The central government continues declaring equal rights for LGBT people, while being in no hurry to...
Let’s watch the semifinals (9th of May, 11th of May) as well as the big final show of Eurovision Song Contest in Kyiv on Saturday, 13th of May, each at 7.30 p.m., in Munich’s gay community centre Sub, Müllerstraße 14. We screen it live, in colour and big. As...
Nothing touches, nothing moves a human being more intensely than movies. To find out what’s a matter to you, define messages, to tell the own story and put it emotionally in a video – that is what we learn from this theory-workshop about social video advertisment. For many years,...
Our partner, the LGBT-Organisation Gay Alliance Ukraine, has invited the Munich based Artist Naomi Lawrence to hold workshops about Creative Protest in Ukraine. Creative Protest is a simple method how to do politics with creative resources, in an inexpensive way to express yourself and have fun. Naomi Lawrence has...
Our partner, the LGBT-Organisation Gay Alliance Ukraine, has invited the Munich based Artist Naomi Lawrence to hold workshops about Creative Protest in Ukraine. Creative Protest is a simple method how to do politics with creative resources, in an inexpensive way to express yourself and have fun. Naomi Lawrence has...
Spring is here, and, as the tradition goes, our friends from Ukraine are back in Munich! On Saturday, April 2nd, a group of LGBT activists from all over Ukraine flew to the capital of Bavaria to participate in a volunteers’ education project. The participants will enjoy a week full...
Progress in the rapprochement between Ukraine and the EU is inextricably linked with compliance and expansion of human rights in our country, particularly regarding LGBT people, and this, in turn, is possible under two main conditions – the further improvement of legislation and addressing homophobia in Ukrainian society, –...
Lesbians from Ukraine talk about their lives. The stories are true. However, professional actors are interpreting them. We proudly present the theater group Zhiva Ja. The name goes back to the ancient Slavic goddess of vitality, love and wisdom, Zhiva, while the Russian word “Ja” means “Me”. Svitlana Hryhoriants und Anastasiia...
The 7th Equality and Pride Days, a Human Rights’ Event, was held from September 1st to 6th in the Ukrainian city of Mykolaiv. The event, organised by the non-governmental public organization LGBT-association LIGA, supports the dialogue among different communities on regional level by holding culture, sports and educational events that...
Ivan Kisil lives beyond the Dnepr river, far away from the cosy streets and green parks of the Ukrainian capital. Kiev has two faces; Ivan knows the ugly side better than the bright one. In the suburbs of Kiev, Iwan works. He’s teacher. Every Sunday, he takes his camera...
