Новости Новости Новости Новости Ukraine: Violent Police Raid on Kiev Gay Club

In the morning on October 22, 1999 a group 22 policemen from the Kiev Department For Organized Crime broke into Kiev night club Kletka (Kutuzov Avenue). A personal search was performed on club visitors with application of force and without a warrant. The camera shots were done without consent of the interviewees...
24 октября 2002

Новости Ukraine: Male Beauty Contest

On February 14, 1999, the new Kiev night gay-club "Heaven" hosted the contest "Mister Gay Ukraine-98" announced by the Ukrainian magazine "Odyn Z Nas" (One Of Us). According to the publication, over one hundred people from all across the country applied in response to the offer. The jury, consisting of the magazine's...
14 февраля 2002

Новости Ukraine: Gay Community Center Harassed in Lugansk

mailto:ourworld@cci.lg.ua Press-release by Our World Gay and Lesbian Center, Lugansk, Ukraine LUGANSK -- The Community Center for lesbian and gay people in Lugansk, the first of its kind in the New Independent States, had its functioning suspended on September 15th. Since its opening on August 18, 2001, the Center...
24 сентября 2001

Новости Ukraine: Gay Community Center Opens in Lugansk

Press-release by Our World Gay and Lesbian Center, Lugansk, Ukraine On August 18, 2001 the formal opening of Nash Mir (Our World) Community Center for gay men and lesbians was held. It is the first Center of its kind in the New Independent States. Andriy Maymulakhin opening the community center In his speech Andriy...
18 августа 2001

Новости Ukraine: Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Conference Takes Place in Kiev

The conference "Human Rights Concerning Gay Men and Lesbians: The Experience of Work and Establishing of Cooperation Among Lesbian & Gay Organizations in the Post-Soviet States" took place in Kiev from October 19 to October 21, 2000. Participant from the Eastern and Central Europe presented the current position of...
23 октября 2000

Новости Ukraine: Our World Obtains Official Registration

Nash Mir (Our World) Gay and Lesbian Center has been registered as non-governmental organization in Ukraine. The certificate No. 408 of November 30, 1999, was issued by the Department of Justice in Lugansk Region. In April 1999 the local Ukrainian Department of Justice refused the state registration of Our World on...
1 декабря 1999

Новости Ukraine: Anti-Aids Program

Later this year the UNO's program of population and the non-governmental organization The International Federation of Family Planning will start funding the activity in the sphere of the propaganda of safe sexual behavior among sexual workers (prostitutes) and homosexuals, as well as the project of maintaining the...
29 июля 1999

Новости Ukraine: Persecution Of "Simona" Weekly Newspaper

Kharkov is undergoing the surge of persecutions against the publications containing erotic materials. Recently the local department of work with juvenile delinquents of the town of Chuguevo (a regional center) demanded that the post office ban the selling of the weekly journal "Simona" through news-stands. The letter...
29 мая 1999

Новости Ukraine: Gay and Lesbian Center Our World Founded in Lugansk

On 27 December the gay and lesbian center Our World was founded in Lugansk, Ukraine. The main purposes of the center are: protection of human rights and freedoms of homosexuals and improvement of their legal position in the state; struggle against discrimination of people based on their sexual orientation...
27 декабря 1998

Новости Ukraine: Gay Verses Collection Published

Ukraine has seen the publishing of the first compilation of gay poetry titled "You are my bouquet of roses". Addressing the readers Andrei Ametist, the chief editor, writes: "Let us experience blissful moments of love, pain of separation and unfaithfulness, hopes of beautiful and unique feelings together with our...
29 марта 1998

Новости Ukraine: Weekly Lost Trial to Leader of Communist Party

In November the Ukrainian "Boulevard" weekly newspaper ran the refutation of its own article "Is the leader of Ukrainian communists a homosexual?" (№ 14 dated March 20, 1998) - further to the ruling of the Radiansky regional court of Kiev. Besides, the paper is to pay 75 thousand grivnas to P. Simonenko for the...
20 марта 1998

Новости Ukraine: We Are with You

January 7-10 in Kiev there was held first in Ukraine an International Seminar dedicated to the problem of HIV/AIDS. The seminar was prepared by Kiev Center of Mutual Aid of the HIV-positive citizens of Ukraine "My S Vami" ("We Are With You"). The organization "We Are With You" was founded in March, 1996. The help in...
11 января 1998