Posted on 05/31/2022 1:44:39 PM PDT by Jan_Sobieski
KYIV (Reuters) - As volunteer fighters Oleksandr Zhuhan and Antonina Romanova pack for a return to active duty, they contemplate the unicorn insignia that gives their uniform a rare distinction - a symbol of their status as an LGBTQ couple who are Ukrainian soldiers.
Members of Ukraine's LGBTQ community who sign up for the war have taken to sewing the image of the mythical beast into their standard-issue epaulettes just below the national flag.
The practice harks back to the 2014 conflict when Russia invaded then annexed the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine, "when lots of people said there are no gay people in the army," actor, director and drama teacher Zhuhan told Reuters as he and Romanova dressed in their apartment for their second three-month combat rotation.
"So they (the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer community) chose the unicorn because it is like a fantastic 'non-existent' creature."
Zhuhan and Romanova, who identifies as a non-binary person with she/her pronouns and moved to the capital from Crimea after being displaced in 2014, met through their theatre work.
Neither was trained in the use of weapons but, after spending a couple of days hiding in their bathroom at the start of the war, decided they had to do more…
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“I’ll scratch your eyes out!”
“Good heavens you’re not bright.”
Oh my God, I am so utterly destroyed by the audacity of your wit!
“You are a really sick individual.”
Typical Soviet insult. Only a psycho would question the Soviet State, isn’t that right Comrade Apparatchik?
Your username invokes Ronald Reagan who would be disappointed in your support of the Soviets and their KGB dictator.
“ In Hitler’s time, all Nazis were gay.”
Nah. Just a lot of the SS.
“So they (the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer community) chose the unicorn because it is like a fantastic ‘non-existent’ creature.”
Correct: They are non-existent.
Similarly, the “trans-” prefix was chosen because it entered the Zeitgeist in the 1990s and 2000s due to leftist media attention to “trans fats” (a misnomer: specific fatty acids are or become trans-, not whole fats), which in context are those fatty acids that are unnaturally altered due to human intervention (specifically, deep-fat frying).
So, “unicorns” are non-existent, and “transgenders” are unnatural.
They admit it.
You speak of things on which you know less than nothing and then mention my wit? Stand in front of a mirror for a while.
It’s Bosnia 2.0. You understand absolutely nothing. When you think you do, you’ll be wrong again.
The SA were the homos, they were pretty much wiped out in The Night of the Long Knives.
I actually know a Ukrainian brony.
Instead of cheering on your boyfriends in the LGBTUke WokeArmy from the comfort of your bathhouse, why don’t you head on over there and help out?
“The SA were the homos, they were pretty much wiped out in The Night of the Long Knives.”
True, but the SS had a reputation as well.
This is yet another tired talking point for you Putinists. No original thoughts among the bunch of you, are there? Just scripted trolls and insults.
Okay, I’ll concede that you’re witless. Feel better now?
I can’t help you. Too much time to do so, and I’m all out of that.
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