Antigay ideology is a centerpiece of Russia’s anti-Ukrainian propaganda. One advocacy group in Kyiv, retooled as a service organization, is offering security to threatened L.G.B.T.Q. citizens.
, in February. “What if you learn that they broke Kyiv’s defenses overnight?” Sirous, who is thirty-six, and their partner, Olya Onypko, who is thirty-seven, own a condo in a high-rise apartment complex on the outskirts of Kyiv, just east of where the front line lay for all of March. The first day of the war, when Russian shells hit Kyiv before sunrise, residents of the complex gathered in the courtyard.
Antigay ideology is a centerpiece of Russia’s anti-Ukrainian propaganda. Russia has portrayed the 2013 protests that became the Ukrainian Revolution of Dignity as organized “by gays and neo-Nazis,” and its invasion of Ukraine as a campaign to protect Russian speakers not just from Ukrainian “Nazis” but from “Gayropa.
Olya Onypko in a room at the L.G.B.T.Q. shelter in Kyiv that she helps to run. Her official title is Queen of the Shelter. Sirous took charge of security. They screen applicants based on responses to online forms and check their references. Then Onypko interviews the candidates. The process is meant to insure that the applicants are members of the L.G.B.T.Q. community and will be able to fit in at the shelter. The rejection rate is about ten per cent. Then there were the three Russians, from Russia, who asked for help, perhaps because they feel that, even now, L.G.B.T.Q. people are safer in Ukraine than in Russia.
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