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01.08.2019

August 2019: OdesaPride and Q-Fest

Friends for life. As every year we support OdesaPride, which is organized by the NGO Gay Alliance Ukraine. A small Munich delegation has always been participating in the “March of Equality”. This year, it will be much bigger as many LGBTI* activists from Munich will attend Q-Fest, the LGBTI* choir...

17.05.2019

100 meters of Pride: The First Ever Pride Walk in Zaporizhzhia

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 regional...

20.04.2019

July 2019 – 50 years of Stonewall. Let’s start from the scratch?

The Stonewall Riots mark the beginning of the LGBTI-movement as we know it today. Much has been achieved by the community from west to east since then, but isn’t that all in danger again? By populism, a shift to the right? We talk to activists* from the very beginning, pioneers...

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...