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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...

07.05.2017

Celebrate Diversity – Flashmob and sampling action during Eurovision Song Contest in Kyiv

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 Eurovision...

01.04.2017

Video as weapon of social warrior: How to promote equal rights with video advertisement

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, Yuri...

04.06.2016

BLOG CREATIVE PROTEST ON TOUR Zaporizhia

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 developed...