Ukraine’s gay soldiers fight Russia—and for their rights

War changes everything, including attitudes to gay people


  • by KYIV
  • 04 5, 2023
  • in Europe

When Pasha Lagoyda joined the Ukrainian army in 2021, he didn’t tell anyone he was gay. In his first weeks his room-mates at training camp found some “spicy texts”, as he puts it, and he was bullied. “There was aggression. They called me a faggot—all that stuff.”

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