Shows Ukrainian women 35 –year-old Yulia (R) and 28-year-old Natalia (L), embracing on the balcony of a refuge home in Kiev, after they fled the separatist east out of fear for their lives for being gay. The stigma of being gay in Ukraine has long forced many to keep their personal lives to themselves. And it makes efforts by relief agencies to count and find those in need of relocation an increasingly hopeless mission.(AFP)Oleksandr had already lost his job for being gay in the rebel Ukrainian bastion of Donetsk when he was approached by two Russian speakers with rifles dangling …read more
Source: The Jakarta Post
