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Ready for take off: KyivPride 2014

They start working. On 30th of September 2013 has been held the first meeting of the Organizing Committee of KyivPride 2014. The Organizing Committee is much smaller than last year and thus, more effective. The members who did not have a possibility to continue their work in the Committee stepped out;...

Munich’s Kiss-in in front of Russia’s Consulate

Munich, 8th of September 2013 – Love against hate. On Sunday, 500 men and women gathered in front of the Russian Consulate in Munich to protest. Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people, and not only them, came to celebrate love – in words, with music and actions pledged,  as the...

Put-In-Transformation on Hans-Sachs-Straßenfest – Some brain needed?

Munich, 17th of August 2013 – He didn’t get much brain, maybe a smile from time to time, very occasionally somebody dared to give him his heart. Mr. P. resisted quite well to any transformation by Munich’s LGBT-community during Hans-Sachs-Straßenfest, Munich’s big Gay Street Festival. Munich Kiev Queer, due to...

Munich Kiev Queer challenges Mr. Putin’s homophobic politics by demonstrating with a transformation machine

Munich, 9th of August 2013 – Munich Kiev Queer will protest against Vladimir Putin’s homophobic laws during the Gay Street Festival in Munich (Hans-Sachs-Straßenfest) on the 17th of August and in front of the Russian General Consulate on the 8th of September. With kind of a transformation machine, the activists...

BLOG Keep going! – Olena Semenova about Munich Pride

Munich, 25th of July 2013 – A year ago, after the first Pride in Kyiv, we were shocked, disappointed, and angry. The Pride failed; some activists were beaten up, others – manhunted. Was it the end or the beginning? We did our best to turn it to the beginning of...

PRIDE WEEK Mayor of Munich welcomes Kyiv LGBT-activists

Munich, 16th of July 2013 – Hep Monatzeder, Mayor of the City of Munich, received four LGBT-activists from Munich’s twin city Kyiv in his office. Olena Semenova, Taras Karasiichuk, Stanislav Mishchenko and Voldoymyr Naumenko, human rights activists fighting for the rights of Lesbians, Gays, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) in their...