Ukraine Cancels Pride After Police Fail to Protect Gay Community
Ukraine Cancels Pride After Police Fail to Protect Gay Community
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Despite last year’s first gay pride parade in Kyiv, Ukraine, this year organizers have decided to cancel the event amid fears of safety. LGBT rights advocates, in a last-minute decision, canceled the event after the city’s police refused to protect the marchers. The July 5th event’s cancelation occurred after the police chief told co-chair of pride Olena Shevchenko that it wasn’t an “appropriate time” and that they didn’t “…enough forces to protect them,” despite thousands of officers being assigned to a protest a few days earlier.
Some in the LGBT community didn’t accept this so they celebrated pride in a local park in Kyiv. [WaBl]
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