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LGBT soldiers in Ukraine hope their service is changing attitudes as they rally for legal rights (apnews.com)

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Several hundred LGBT Ukrainian servicemen and their supporters marched in central Kyiv Sunday to demand more rights and highlight their service to their country in its war with Russia...

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

If LGBTQ+ people serving to defend Ukraine don't receive better legal standing than they have right now, I would be opposed to letting Ukraine join the EU after the war.

It's kinda a requirement for them to join anyway.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Recognition of foreign unions and adoptions, yes, I don't think there's anything about offering them yourself. It's not like being gay would be illegal in Ukraine, it's that only ten years ago social attitudes were quite negative towards queer folks but those have been changing at breakneck speed. Registered partnerships are in the pipeline and have majority support, marriage at least for now is out of the question because it'd require a change to the constitution and those aren't constitutional in war times.