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Rainbow NewsKiev Gay Pride Results: EU Seriously Concerned, Ukrainian Homophobes Fought With Their "Colleagues" From Russia
25 May 2012
A breakdown of a peaceful march that was planned in the framework of the Kiev Pride 2012 LGBT Festival and beatings of gay activists by radicals are the headlines today. Taras Karasiychuk, the Chairman, and Stanislav Mischenko, the Secretary of the Organizing Committee of Kiev Pride, have met with the EU Ambassador to Ukraine H.E. Jose Manuel Pinto Teixeira soon after the festival was closed. The Ambassador said that the EU was seriously concerned with the situation around Kiev Pride 2012 and with the high level of anti-gay feelings in Ukraine. "The European Union will treat the Ukrainian authorities in very strict way due to their failure to stop xenophobia and gay-hatred". Moreover gay activists have also met with the officials from EU embassies in Kiev and informed them in details about the events unveiled in the Ukrainian capital on May 19-21, 2012 and in general told them about situation with gay rights and gay hatred in that country in general. According to gay activists statements, the meeting was a success - Swedish, German and the Netherlands' diplomats will inform their capitals and discuss the rise of homophobia in Ukraine.
Catherine Ashton (the European Union's High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy) expressed her deep concerns with violent breakdown of a peaceful Kiev Gay Pride march, organized on May 19-21. She has called on the Ukrainian authorities to investigate and persecute delinquents and stressed that the Ukrainian government should protect and secure the freedom of every Ukrainian including gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgenders, on peaceful assembly and speech. She personally met with LGBT festival's organizers, expressed them her support and assured that the EU was still devoted to the issue of protection and security of human rights of every Ukrainian.
The EU Parliament's deputies during the talks "The situation in Ukraine. Yuliya Timoshenko's case" have also expressed their concerns with the developments in Ukraine. Johannes Cornelis van Baalen (Liberal, the Netherlands) stated about the inadmissibility of the LGBT Pride breakdown in Kiev and of an initiative of the Supreme Rada to consider the draft law on ban of homopropaganda in Ukraine. "It is a very bad thing because education on this issue should be honest and transparent", said the deputy who is pushing for the need of changes in Ukraine, including in the area of LGBT rights. He was backed by another liberal from the Netherlands - Mr. Gerben-Jan Geerbrand and by Emin Bozkurt, a representative of Prograssive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the EU Parliament.
The Kiev Police is checking the circumstances of beating by unidentified masked persons of Svyatoslav Sheremet - the leader of Gay Forum Ukraine and gay activist from Donetsk - Maxim Kasyanchuk on May 20, 2012. They were violently attacked near metrostation "Darnitsa" where LGBT activists improvised a short-press conference soon after the news about the cancellation of LGBT march. The Amnesty Int'l has accused the local police in failure to maintain security of pride's participants.
Pavel Sheremet, a journalist from Echo of Moscow radio station wrote in his article: "Even nationalists (some kind of kossacks) from Russia came to Kiev in order to defend the Ukrainians from gays. They were searching the Ukrainian capital's centre for "merzotniki" (fags- same word was used in radicals' blogs while discussing the LGBT march in Kiev). And soon they met with other defenders of high morale - Ukrainian nationalists. There were no way to draw back and cossacks needed to make use of gained sexual energy, so they began to fight with their colleagues on anti-gay issue - the Ukrainian nationalists. It is Ukrainian nationalists who for some unclear reason were in the forefront of the fight against homosexuality. Grandsons of Bandera - activists of "Freedom" party not only caught gays but have managed to derange in a respected city's university the show of LGBT movie "Milk" with Sean Penn starring there. In 2009 this film has won two Oscars. Of course, the main hero - a gay fighting for civil rights of sexual minorities. But this film is not making propaganda of homosexuality and same sex love, but a salute to those who fought for gay rights and created equal civil society in the USA. Nowadays in Ukrain many people have fear that hunks from "Freedom (Svoboda)" party will disorganize Kazemir Malevich's show on the grounds of his homosexuality and Jewish origin." (In the original words of the author. - Gay.ru) Almost in the same time but in the ither corner of the former Soviet Union - in Saint-Petersburg, Russian nationalists attacked Russian gays and made a violent fight. Russian nationalists hate Ukrainian nationalists but over the issue of gay prides are ready to join together in ideological ecstasy. Pavel Sheremet feels himself uneasy while defending LGBT people because he fears for his "impeccable straight reputation". But he can't stay silent because "the fight against gays and lesbians is gaining fierce and grotesque traits".
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