MOSCOW — Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on Friday voiced support for LGBT rights, saying he believes an ‘Equality March’ planned for Saturday in Kiev should take place as planned.
“I will not participate in it but I don’t see any reason to impede this march because it’s a constitutional right of every citizen of Ukraine,” he said.
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It may sound insignificant but it’s not. No president of Ukraine — a post-Soviet state of more than 40 million mostly-conservative Orthodox Christians — has ever voiced support of the country’s LGBT community, activists told …read more
Source: Mashable
