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Amid missile strikes, being queer in Ukraine is defiance against Putin
The Counteroffensive with Tim Mak ^ | JUN 28, 2023 | CHRISTOPHER ALLBRITTON, WILLIAM GLOVER WEISS, AND ROSS PELEKH

Posted on 07/03/2023 6:50:53 PM PDT by Salman

As missiles rained down on Kramatorsk last night, killing nine people, including three children, and wounding at least 56 more (see more below), Kyiv did one of the things that Russian President Vladimir Putin hates the most: it celebrated the diversity of its LGBTQ+ community with the Sunny Bunny Film Festival, Ukraine’s first film festival dedicated to queer filmmaking.

It was a milestone for the flamboyant and attention-grabbing activist in Ukraine, which despite being more open than Russia, is still conservative when it comes to LGBTQ+ rights. “You’re the first to know!” she exclaimed about her name change, through her friend Vita, who translated.

Russia has elevated homophobia to state policy and even used the existence of people like Monro, 45, to justify its invasion. Russia has partly framed the war as a defense of “traditional values” from Western policies that “are directly leading to degradation and degeneration, because they are contrary to human nature.”

Meanwhile, Ukraine is debating a bill that would recognize civil partnerships, a step on the road to legalizing marriage between two people, regardless of their gender identity. Ukraine’s parliament also unanimously passed a bill on Dec. 15, 2022, banning hate speech against LGBTQ+ individuals in the country’s media.

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1 posted on 07/03/2023 6:50:53 PM PDT by Salman
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To: Salman

Short version:
I feel pretty
I feel pretty and witty and gay.


2 posted on 07/03/2023 6:52:04 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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Somehow I get the feeling that this is the kind of “defiance” someone like Putin would laugh at.


3 posted on 07/03/2023 6:52:50 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Salman

Did we really need to see this?


4 posted on 07/03/2023 6:54:37 PM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
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To: Salman
Banning "hate speech" is much more dangerous than "civil unions".

"Hate speech" is whatever the authorities do not like.

5 posted on 07/03/2023 6:54:40 PM PDT by marktwain
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To: Salman
I celebrate Ukranians' right to solemnly return the property they stole from the Jews they gleefully butchered. It took the Einsatzgruppen to hold the bastards back.
6 posted on 07/03/2023 6:54:42 PM PDT by golux
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To: Salman

Ukraine seems to be an odd place.


7 posted on 07/03/2023 6:55:20 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Salman

“Sunny Bunny Film Festival, Ukraine’s first film festival dedicated to queer film making.” Is that anything like Buddy Bizarre from Blazing Saddles? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMK6lzmSk2o


8 posted on 07/03/2023 6:56:56 PM PDT by EvilCapitalist (81 million votes my ass.)
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To: frank ballenger

(it celebrated the diversity of its LGBTQ+ community with the Sunny Bunny Film Festival, Ukraine’s first film festival dedicated to queer filmmaking.)

Finally; an important agenda. 🙄🙄🙄


9 posted on 07/03/2023 6:57:24 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Paladin2

Ukraine seems to be an odd place.
——-
Sodom and Gomorrah?


10 posted on 07/03/2023 7:02:30 PM PDT by delta7
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To: SaveFerris

The Sunny Bunny Film Festival.
How could I have missed hearing about that?📽️🎬🎞️🎞️🐰🐇🐰🐇


11 posted on 07/03/2023 7:05:56 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: Salman

It’s now clear why Biden is all in for Ukraine.


12 posted on 07/03/2023 7:13:25 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA (Delay Trump’s trial, delay. Elect Trump President. Trump pardons himself.)
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To: frank ballenger

This sounds like something Joe can get behind.....I expect to hear him praising it.


13 posted on 07/03/2023 7:13:49 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: frank ballenger

reminds me of

the reformer Huss

last words

I’m getting burned at the stake

for dropping Latin

singing Christian songs

the gay zealots

will ww3 us to death

to impose their beliefs

on others


14 posted on 07/03/2023 7:13:56 PM PDT by Firehath
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To: EvilCapitalist

Not in the face!!


15 posted on 07/03/2023 7:15:00 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Firehath

I remember when Hillary Clinton declared she wanted to be the first U.S. President to March in a Gay Pride Parade.

Watch Joe go for it.


16 posted on 07/03/2023 7:16:58 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: SaveFerris

Piss on you, I’m working for Mel Brooks.


17 posted on 07/03/2023 7:18:01 PM PDT by EvilCapitalist (81 million votes my ass.)
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To: frank ballenger

Will Bud Light be the featured product at the Sunny Bunny Film Festival?

No, wait, I don’t want to know...


18 posted on 07/03/2023 7:19:04 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: EvilCapitalist

“You brute!...You brute!...You vicious brute!”


19 posted on 07/03/2023 7:19:29 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Salman

Nah. It’s not.


20 posted on 07/03/2023 7:20:03 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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