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11.04.2019

July 2019 – CSD München

For many years now we have been inviting LGBT-activists* from our twin city Kyiv to Munich Pride. We organize an extensive delegation program for our guests, they visit the largest LGBT-organizations in Munich, take part in the Pride Week program, meet important representatives of the city like Lord Mayor Dieter...

22.01.2019

June 2019 – KyivPride

As every year, Munich’s LGBTI-community will send a delegation to Kyiv. We do not travel on our own, we have our back strengthened by the city council. If everything works ok, Munich’s Lord Mayor, Dieter Reiter, will support us again and send city councillor Dominik Krause as a delegate to...

06.01.2019

May 2019 – Make it move! Meet-up with young LGBTI-activists from Bavaria and Ukraine

Human Rights above everything! We plan to organise an exchange of young LGBTI-activists, preferably volunteers, with two encounters between people of Ukraine and Bavaria in both countries. The main themes of the project will be to inspire and strengthen the cooperation between our two countries’ LGBTI-organisations and activists, to learn...

06.01.2019

March 2019 – Volunteers join us!

Learning from each other – that has always been the motto of our cooperation. Ukrainians and Munichers, people from completely different cultural backgrounds, have a lot to share. Together we want to achieve more for the LGBTI- movement in both countries and therefore we regularly offer workshops. “Volunteering in the...

03.01.2019

March 2019 – Suburbia, me! Exhibition, Reading, Music

Ivan lives in the suburbs of Kyiv, left bank, far away from the picturesque streets and parks of the old town. He works as a teacher in a public school. And he hides the fact that he is gay. Ivan shares an apartment with his mother. On Sundays, to be...

19.08.2018

OdesaPride2018: Activists from Munich supported Pride March for LGBTI-families in Ukraine

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 participants...

25.06.2018

KyivPride 2018 – The KyivPride Diary

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 the...

10.05.2018

We are singing for our lives! The story of Ukraine’s 1st ever LGBTI-choir

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 led...

08.03.2018

On the rise – The Nash Mir Report about LGBTI in Ukraine 2017

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 fulfil...

08.02.2018

“Political cooperation, friendship, love”

In 2012 the Munich lesbian, gay, bi *, trans * and inter * community entered into a cooperation with the scene in Kyiw. In five years, the human rights initiative has achieved a lot – on a political and personal level. Without Munich there would probably not have been the...