Russists’ hunt for LGBT people and military relatives and kidnapping of children: Life in Kherson in wait for Ukrainian ArmyBy Oleksandra ZakharovaKherson residents lived in a real hell for ten months before the Ukrainian Armed Forces arrived.
Co-owner of a doughnut shop in Kyiv on raising money for Ukraine’s Armed Forces and helping LGBTQ militaryBy Oleksandra HorchynskaSasha Zhyliaev on his work after the full-scale invasion, 50 thousand pies for the military and IDPs, crowdfunding for LGBT soldiers, and the values war.
Kharkiv. War. LGBT+By Anna SharyhinaCo-organizer of KharkivPride Anna Sharyhina introduces four queer persons who stayed in Kharkiv after Russia attacked Ukraine
Armenia’s silent agreement: Homophobia in the militaryBy Elen Mangasaryan (text) and Eliza Mkhitaryan (photo)Davit can still remember the panic he felt as he got closer to his 18th birthday — and official summons for military service.
Code 103. How prosecution under Article 120 in Uzbekistan really worksBy Sarpa MediaHow blackmail, extortion, and ill-treatment are part of “sodomy” investigations, and why consensual sex is still criminalised in Uzbekistan, a country that announced 2022 the year of “human interest”.
Coming out during war: Doubled unsafetyBy Mara VavilonskayaTwo stories of people who, among other things, have to defend their rights, and whose feeling of unsafety has doubled