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18.09.2021

PrideBlog – Bullying at school, violence in Podil

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 written...

15.09.2021

PrideBlog – Rave meets Pride

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 with...

27.05.2021

(I am not) Sensitive Content

Body, identity – for a long time now, our societies have been struggling with these issues, and all too often the result is fear and rejection of all that is different. This online exhibition, curated by Kateryna Pidhaina from Kyiv, brings together a number of artists – including queer ones...

06.02.2021

Situation of LGBTI* in Ukraine: Community online

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 LGBT...

31.01.2021

The EMU Choral Meet-Up: Three cities, three choirs, one web

You’d like to sing, but your choir can’t meet up to rehearse? You want to meet people from other countries, but you’re not allowed to travel? Then we have the solution for you: our international Three Cities Online Choral Meet-Up with singers from Edinburgh, Munich, Kyiv and beyond. We’ll meet...

24.01.2021

The EMU Edinburgh Munich Ukraine Three City Sports Challenge

Do you want to keep moving this winter? But you need a bit of extra motivation to #BeatLockdownLethargy? We at Munich Kyiv Queer are running a “Three City Challenge” with our friends from LEAP Sports in Edinburgh, and invite you to take part. More EMU? If you like to sing,...

11.06.2020

Exhibition: Love knows no borders. Scenes of a town twinning

It all began in the summer of 2012, when three LGBTI* activists from Munich’s twin city Kyiv travelled to Munich to attend the city’s Christopher Street Day as guests of honour. That year, the motto of the largest LGBTI* community event in southern Germany, at which thousands of lesbians, gays,...

27.03.2020

Situation of LGBTI* in Ukraine: Old problems, new prospects

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 its...

07.01.2020

July 2020: MunichPride

From July 4th on we expect a big delegation from Ukraine. Activists come from various LGBTI* organizations: Among them are long-time partners and people we welcome for the first time in Munich, such as representatives of the new Trans* Community Centre in Kyiv. A supporting program will get our guests...

08.10.2019

12th LGBT Conference: Our report from Kyiv

The 12th Ukrainian LGBTI * Conference took place this year from September 11th to 13th under the motto “Path to Equality” in Kyiv. Around 150 participants from 13 partner organizations came to set goals for their work and to exchange information. The main topics of the conference were health, rights...

Demonstration mit Menschen und Plakaten — Demonstration