Munich Kyiv Queer invited queer choirs from Edinburgh, Munich and Odesa to a digital meet-up, just like at the last lockdown. Only this time, everything was much more colourful. by Stephanie Hügler “Thank you for organising this rehearsal. Due to quarantine and other obstacles, we haven’t met to sing...
To comfort fans who missed the Advent concert of 27th of November, which was cancelled due to Corona, the seven queer choirs and music ensembles of Munich’s Monaccord network have put together a virtual concert instead. It consists of some rehearsals and existing stock material. They all raised money...
by Conrad Breyer As we walk to the German Embassy, we can already hear the loudspeaker announcements. The slogans echo throughout the city, accompanied by music. “Is it starting already?”, I ask Stas. “Have our friends from Tradition and Order arrived yet?” But then we realize: that’s Britney singing....
by Conrad Breyer German Embassy, Heinrich Böll Foundation, Tochka Opori, then our film – the program for Friday promises to be as exhausting as that of the previous days. Sleepily, we start our visit as a “Munich delegation” at the embassy – two of us this year only, no...
by Conrad Breyer We’re already sitting on the bus to the next appointment when Olena Globa sends me another message on my cell phone. “LGBTIQ*,” it says, “will win thanks to people like you in Munich and Kyiv, and not because Biden and Zelensky make some agreement that’s only...
by Conrad Breyer Two years we have not been to Ukraine, two years we have sorely missed our friends in Kyiv. Sure, we did some really good online projects, webinars, sports challenges, a virtual exhibition, even choir rehearsals, but being here, heading to the streets for Human Rights together...
The COVID pandemic has become a major factor influencing the daily life of Ukrainian society in 2020, including the LGBT community. Due to the relevant quarantine measures, the vast majority of LGBT events planned for this year were conducted online, via the Internet. However, even in such circumstances, Ukrainian...
In 2019, the activity of Ukraine’s LGBT community increasingly carried on, says the NGO Nash Mir in its Annual Report for 2020. The number of Kyiv Equality March participants reached 6-8 thousand, and those of the first Kharkiv Equality March – 2-3 thousand, which even exceeded the expectations of...
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,...
