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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Short version:
I feel pretty
I feel pretty and witty and gay.
Somehow I get the feeling that this is the kind of “defiance” someone like Putin would laugh at.
Did we really need to see this?
"Hate speech" is whatever the authorities do not like.
Ukraine seems to be an odd place.
“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
(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. 🙄🙄🙄
Ukraine seems to be an odd place.
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Sodom and Gomorrah?
The Sunny Bunny Film Festival.
How could I have missed hearing about that?📽️🎬🎞️🎞️🐰🐇🐰🐇
It’s now clear why Biden is all in for Ukraine.
This sounds like something Joe can get behind.....I expect to hear him praising it.
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
Not in the face!!
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.
Piss on you, I’m working for Mel Brooks.
Will Bud Light be the featured product at the Sunny Bunny Film Festival?
No, wait, I don’t want to know...
“You brute!...You brute!...You vicious brute!”
Nah. It’s not.
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