{"id":266074,"date":"2023-03-09T07:30:13","date_gmt":"2023-03-09T07:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=266074"},"modified":"2023-03-10T07:41:25","modified_gmt":"2023-03-10T07:41:25","slug":"ukraine-considers-lgbtq-breakthrough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=266074","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine considers LGBTQ breakthrough"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>RT.com &#8212; March 8, 2023<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Ukraine\u2019s former deputy culture minister has proposed legalizing same-sex civil partnerships, arguing it would both reward the service of LGBTQ soldiers and please Kiev\u2019s foreign backers. Inna Sovsun of the Golos party announced on Tuesday that she has submitted the bill to the Verkhovna Rada for consideration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLegalization of single-sex relationships is very important to me now, because if I come home [dead], my partner can\u2019t even bury me,\u201d was one of the arguments from the Ukrainian LGBT Soldiers and Allies\u2019 Facebook community that Sovsun quoted in announcing her bill.<\/p>\n<p>The bill is a product of nine months of work, involving two NGOs. It would establish legal grounds for people in same-sex relationships to regulate property ownership, inheritance, pensions and death benefits, Sovsun argued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI could say that this is what our Western allies are demanding of us \u2013 and it is true, they are,\u201d but 56% of Ukrainians agree that LGBTQ people should be entitled to civil partnerships, she wrote. \u201cAs a society, we have matured beyond the \u2018Russian swamp\u2019 and Soviet worldview.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Because Ukraine values \u201chuman dignity and freedom,\u201d Ukrainians are \u201csimply a different biological species\u201d than Russians, she concluded.<\/p>\n<p>While Sovsun did not provide a source for her figures, the percentage correlates to a 2017 online survey commissioned by the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA).<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine decriminalized homosexuality in 1991, but its constitution defines marriage as a voluntary union between a man and a woman (Article 51). As late as 2018, the Justice Ministry in Kiev argued there were no legal grounds for same-sex civil partnerships.<\/p>\n<p>Sovsun represents Golos, a self-described \u201cliberal\u201d and \u201cpro-European\u201d party that supports President Vladimir Zelensky\u2019s ruling majority. They won 20 seats \u2013 out of 450 \u2013 in the 2019 election, though 11 MPs have since broken away to set up their own party, called \u2018Justice.\u2019 Sovsun herself was deputy minister of science and education between 2014 and 2016 \u2013 following the US-backed coup in Kiev \u2013 when the government\u2019s move to restrict the use of Russian language helped touch off the unrest in Donbass.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/russia\/572607-ukraine-lgbt-civil-partnership\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukraine\u2019s former deputy culture minister has proposed legalizing same-sex civil partnerships, arguing it would please Kiev\u2019s foreign backers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":252002,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-266074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ukraine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=266074"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":266075,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266074\/revisions\/266075"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/252002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=266074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=266074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=266074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}