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Gay War Veteran Speaks Out for Equal Rights in Ukraine’s Military

By Margaryta Chornokondratenko — 2021

Viktor Pylypenko has become a role model for dozens of LGBT+ Ukrainian war veterans and their supporters since he organised their participation in Kyiv’s largest ever gay pride march. And he makes a direct link between his sexual orientation and the cause for which he says he was fighting—a free and sovereign Ukraine in which all enjoy equal rights.

Read on www.reuters.com

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Belonging to Ourselves and Each Other

Creating spaces where the need to assimilate, conform, and belong are no longer important

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La Sarmiento
2019
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Pushing Past Tokenism

La Sarmiento has been a leader of American LGBTQ and people-of-color Buddhist communities for close to a decade. I caught up with the trans, queer Filipino teacher before a silent retreat to discuss the dynamics of race and gender in a world that is typically White, cisgender and straight.

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Miriam Zoila Pérez
2016
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