Tag: Kiev

Anti-gay protesters tried to stop the event and set fire to a rainbow flag Over 2,000 people marched in Kiev Pride this year, while 5,000 police officers kept anti-gay protesters at bay. Participants walked through the city centre, flanked on either side with a heavy police presence. The police were clad in helmets and bullet-proof vests. Nationalist protesters tried to stop the parade by forming a human barricade around the parade route, then burnt a rainbow flag in protest. Anti-LGBT protesters burn rainbow...

" proud that slowly the country is changing." Next month, the Eurovision Song Contest comes to Kiev, Ukraine, a region not exactly known for being a gay paradise. Maybe that’s why Eurovision producers are redecorating the People’s Friendship Arch in Cross Park with rainbow colors and renaming it “the Arch of Diversity.” “ proud that slowly the country is changing,’ said Gennady Kurochka, who runs a publicity company working with European Song Contest in Kiev. “ filled with new meaning, a...