Writing For Diversity
“Пишемо заради Різноманіття” та “Висвітлюємо ЛГБТ-питання у транснаціональній журналістиці” – це два онлайн-обміни, що проходили у червні 2021 року між журналістською і активістською спільнотою України, Молдови та Німеччини, та в листопаді і грудні 2020 року між журналістською спільнотою Німеччини та України. Обміни проходили в рамках “Програми Східного партнерства” Федерального міністерство закордонних справ Німеччини. У цьому розділі ми раді представити дослідницькі матеріали, підготовлені німецькими, молдовськими та українськими журналіст(к)ами та активіст(к)ами, які брали участь у програмі. Деякі статті представлені двома мовами.
“Writing For Diversity” and “Covering LGBT issues in transnational journalism” are both online exchanges that took place in June 2021 between the journalistic and activists communities of Ukraine, Moldova and Germany, and in November and December 2020 between the journalistic community of Ukraine and Germany respectively. These digital exchanges were held within the Eastern Partnership Programme of the German Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In this section, we are pleased to present research materials prepared by German and Ukrainian journalists who participated in the exchange. Some articles are written in two languages.
Повсякденність кольору веселки
Взяти за руку кохану людину у кафе, поцілувати її на вулиці просто тому, що переповнюють почуття, або ж застрибнути у машину швидкої аби бути поруч коли твоїй половинці дуже зле. Чи просто разом ходити по магазину, взявшись за руки, обираючи овочі для недільного обіду...
Психотерапия – многократный каминг-аут
В апреле 2021 я проснулся с четкой мыслью о том, что пора найти психотерапевта. Я больше не мог терпеть нарастающее давление – молниеносно определился со специалистом и через два дня попал к Маше. Спустя четыре месяца терапии я осознал наличие личностного кризиса, что...
Квір у гетеросексуальному світі
Стаття про усвідомлення власної ідентичності як лесбійки У нашому суспільстві гетеросексуальність – це варіант за замовчуванням, а для деяких людей – єдиний варіант: навіть у 2021 році 71 країна світу криміналізує гомосексуальність. Ми живемо у світі, в якому...
The importance of positive queer media
Media has always played an important role in society life. It also remains a powerful instrument to influence current discourses about specific topics. In its own specific way media became a part of culture ideology, therefore the representation is very important....
“I’m Proud to Be a Friend”: How the Berlin Police Is Fighting Homophobia
There have been a number of crimes against LGBT people in Ukraine over the past year: they have been tortured, beaten, robbed and intimidated. However, the police did not effectively investigate any of the incidents. In addition, for the most part, law enforcement...
LGBT Military: “There is something changing in people’s minds”
Viktor Pylypenko was one of the first soldiers who publicly came out in the Ukrainian army in 2018. He started the initiative “LGBT Military”, led a group at Kyiv Pride and is active in NGO Fulcrum Ukraine to promote and advocate LGBT rights. In the interview he talks...
Queer Cinema in Ukraine: From the Margins to the Center
Cinema against homophobia “LGBT and other subcultures, don’t take out your trash on the outside. Your home is your fortress,” blasts from a projected wall in an open-space commune-style living room, watched by an artsy crowd. The member of the “Camaraderie Sect”...
Love Not for Everyone: Prospects for Same-Sex Partnerships in Ukraine
Ukrainian LGBT+ couples can't legalize their relationships, visit each other in the intensive care unit or register rights to the partner's child who they are raising together. The law "On Civil Partnership", the draft of which was supposed to be developed by the...
To Become Visible, You Need to Act: How the LGBTQI Community Fights for the Right to Be
“Are you ready to express your social position? After all, the visibility of the community is a social act. And to be visible, you need the courage to speak.” This comment belongs to German journalist Stephanie Kuhnen, the author of a book on the visibility of...
Любов не для всіх: перспективи одностатевого партнерства в Україні
Українські ЛГБТ+ пари не можуть узаконити свої стосунки, навідати одне одного у реанімації, зареєструвати права на дитину партнера або партнерки. Законодавчо закріпити їхні відносини має ЗУ «Про цивільне партнерство», проєкт якого ще три роки тому мав розробити...
And you are? Unique.
They fall, they stand up, they survive and rise: as a minority group that identifies with a gender different than the one assigned to them at birth, transgender people often feel mistreated, misunderstood and detached from the rest of the world. And the world, in...
Don’t Look Back in Anger
The new generation of LGBT activists in Ukraine, and how the migrated generation of former activists sees the chances for the political fight in the country today When I had the honor to visit Ukraine for the first time around the year 2000 as a guest of the...
Life in Secret: LGBTQ People in Eastern Ukraine
Less information finds its way out from the occupied areas in the Donbas region. Armed paramilitary forces control everyday life in the regions around Luhansk and Donetsk. Minorities, such as LGBTQ people, suffer from this situation. When Kyrylo Samozdra...
Щоб стати видимим – потрібно діяти: як ЛГБТІК-спільнота виборює право бути
«Чи готові ви висловлювати свою соціальну позицію? Адже видимість спільноти – це соціальний вчинок. І щоб бути видимим, потрібна сміливість говорити». Цей коментар належить німецькій журналістці Стефані Кюхнен (Stephanie Kuhnen), авторці книжки про видимість лесбійок...
Берлінська Quarteera для Антона. Конфлікти інтересів у російськомовній німецькій ЛГБТ-організації
Антон Дорох, активіст з України, розповів про подвійну дискримінацію ЛГБТІК-мігрантів в Німеччині та про конфлікти інтересів всередині російськомовної організації «Quarteera» у Берліні. Неурядова організація «Квартира» у Берліні здійснює соціальні, культурні та...
Should We Chase the Rainbow Bear? The Highs and Lows of LGBTQ+ Sports in Germany and Ukraine
For a sphere that’s constantly chasing world records, sport is surprisingly slow in accepting diversity. It’s hard for Ukraine not to get jealous of Germany with its vibrant LGBTQ+ culture and dozens of rainbow communities. But is it all so bright and fun for its...
Acceptance: how Germany worked its way from gay concentration camps to legalizing same-sex marriage and equal rights for LGBT people
Accepting the otherness of another person is a sign of awareness and education, in addition to emotional intelligence. Accepting your own otherness is a sign of inner strength. Accepting the otherness of its citizens is a sign of a civilized state that lives...
Quarteera for Anton. Conflicts of interest within the Russian-speaking organization
Activist from Ukraine among Russian-speaking LGBT people in Germany: “Perhaps other countries in the post-Soviet space aren’t developing so rapidly” Anton Dorokh, an activist from Ukraine, talked about the double discrimination of LGBT refugees in Germany and...
“The doctor calls me a prostitute”
Besides the Corona pandemic, there is a second epidemic in Ukraine: HIV. Why the queer community suffers particularly from it. In December, in Pavlo Boiko's store in Kyiv, if you want, you can get a free HIV rapid test with your purchase. This is not a strange...
Finding my Ukrainian family
I applied for this journalist exchange hoping to find my Ukrainian roots, but my Ukrainian roots found me first. Though I’ve lived in Berlin since 2017, I grew up near Cleveland, Ohio, a former steel center in the American Rust Belt. Northern Ohio is a very...
LGBT+ visibility outside Kyiv
How to show visibility in a year like 2020? LGBT+ groups in Ukraine came up with creative ideas, even a Pride march was organized. Some regional organizations talk about their challenges of showing visibility every year and how these challenges have increased under...
Portrait(s) of Queer Ukraine – part three: Two Trans*Women Married after Fleeing to Berlin
The Corona crisis sends queer people back to the closet. The LGBTIQ community loses its safe spaces. In the neighbouring countries Poland and Russia consolidate homo- and transphobic moods, initiatives and even laws. Inside Ukraine far-right groups become...
Portrait(s) of Queer Ukraine – part two: Escaping from Abuse and Coming Out after War
The Corona crisis sends queer people back to the closet. The LGBTIQ community loses its safe spaces. In the neighbouring countries Poland and Russia consolidate homo- and transphobic moods, initiatives and even laws. Inside Ukraine far-right groups become stronger and...
Portrait(s) of Queer Ukraine – part one: Gay Love in Kyiv and Trans*Activism in Kharkiv
The Corona crisis sends queer people back to the closet. The LGBTIQ community loses its safe spaces. In the neighbouring countries Poland and Russia consolidate homo- and transphobic moods, initiatives and even laws. Inside Ukraine far-right groups become...