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Odessa Pride: Ukranian City Holds First LGBTQ March Amid Nationalist Threat
The first LGBTQ Pride march in the Ukrainian city of Odessa was held on Saturday, after officials initially banned the event, bringing out over 50 community members who marched with rainbow flags and signs and chanted, “Everyone’s different, everyone’s equal.”
It was only the second city in all of Ukraine to hold such an event, the first being in Kiev.
“Today you are making history,” Zoryan Kis, an LGBTQ activist and one of the organizers of Kiev Pride, told the crowd. Kis...
