Gay rights activists in Ukraine have cancelled a planned pride parade Saturday in the port city of Odessa after a local court banned the event.”The decision of the court is illegal and violates our constitutional right of assembly,” Kyrylo Bodelan, a spokesman for the Odessa Pride group, told AFP.Bodelan said that the group would instead hold a public discussion on the history of the gay rights movement in the city.”They banned us from marching,” Bodelan said. “We will instead try nonetheless to do a small part of what we had planned.”The gay pride event was blocked Thursday by a local …read more
Source: The Jakarta Post
