Source: Aleksandr Nosenko, Instagram.
As this year’s Eurovision Song Contest enters its final weekend, a half-painted rainbow arch meant to symbolize the event’s slogan, “Celebrate Diversity,” hovers ominously over the city center.
After far-right leaders complained that the colorful paint job amounted to homosexual propaganda, the city promptly halted the makeover of the giant arch, which was renamed the “Arch of Diversity” for Eurovision (it was previously known as the “Friendship of Nations Arc” and was dedicated to Russian and Ukrainian unity in the Soviet Union).
The incomplete monument serves as a conspicuous reminder of Ukraine’s unfinished battle against homophobia—a problem that has …read more
Source: Global Voices
