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Ukraine passes bill banning LGBTQ+ hate speech in media
The bill bans hate speech and incitement based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
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Ukraine’s only transgender correspondent has become a local legend
LGBTQ Nation correspondent Sarah Ashton-Cirillo may have moved into a new role, but she has significantly impacted the warzone.
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Gay U.S. ambassador to Hungary is leading by “power of example”
David Pressman arrived in Budapest two months ago with his husband and their two children and made a point of sharing the event on social.
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Transgender war correspondent resigns to join the Ukrainian Armed Forces
With a mix of observation, interviews, and striking photographs, Sarah Ashton-Cirillo reported dozens of stories for LGBTQ Nation from Ukraine’s front line.
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Biden refuses to meet with Putin unless he’ll discuss freeing Brittney Griner
The Biden administration has proposed a prisoner swap and is waiting for Russia to either accept or negotiate.
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Propaganda video warns fleeing Russians about LGBTQ & Black people in the US
Thousands are fleeing the country following President Vladimir Putin’s draft order.
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Biden touts importance of LGBTQ rights in UN speech
President Biden imagined a future “where the LGBTQ+ community individuals live and love freely without being targeted with violence.”
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Ukrainian LGBTQ refugees share tales of support & discrimination in Poland
Homosexuality is legal in Poland, but the nation has been consistently ranked as the most homophobic country in the European Union.
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The geopolitics of being Brittney Griner
Her marginalized intersectional identities in America -race, class, gender, and sexuality- have highlighted the reason why she’s over there in the first place.
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She’s a queer person of color from Ukraine. She’s ready to go home
“The reason I am not dead now is sheer luck. Nothing else, because they want to kill every single one of us. Just because we are Ukrainians.”