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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...

02.06.2016

BLOG CREATIVE PROTEST ON TOUR Odessa

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...

11.04.2016

VOLUNTEERS BLOG: Season three

Spring is here, and, as the tradition goes, our friends from Ukraine are back in Munich!  On Saturday, April 2nd,  a group of LGBT activists from all over Ukraine flew to the capital of Bavaria to participate in a volunteers’ education project. The participants will enjoy a week full of...

18.03.2016

LGBT-conference: Ukrainian government and EU reaffirmed common views on human rights for LGBT people

Progress in the rapprochement between Ukraine and the EU is inextricably linked with compliance and expansion of human rights in our country, particularly regarding LGBT people, and this, in turn, is possible under two main conditions – the further improvement of legislation and addressing homophobia in Ukrainian society, – in...

11.10.2015

Festival of Lesbian Art and Culture Munich: German Premiere of Ukrainian theater piece

Lesbians from Ukraine talk about their lives. The stories are true. However, professional actors are interpreting them. We proudly present the theater group Zhiva Ja. The name goes back to the ancient Slavic goddess of vitality, love and wisdom, Zhiva, while the Russian word “Ja” means “Me”. Svitlana Hryhoriants und Anastasiia Kyrychenko take...