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This publication presents information that reflects the social, legal and political situation of the LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) people in Ukraine in 2025. It contains data and analyses of the issues related to LGBTQ rights and interests in legislation, public and political life, and public opinion, and provides examples of discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation or gender identity and more.<\/p>\n
Authors: Andrii Kravchuk, Oleksandr Zinchenkov, Oleh Lyashchenko<\/p>\n
Project Manager of Nash Svit Center: Andriy Maymulakhin<\/p>\n
This report was prepared according to results obtained through monitoring and human rights activities by Nash Svit Center. The authors express their gratitude to donor organizations and individuals who support our activities as well as LGBTQ organizations and individual activists, participants of e-mail lists and Facebook groups who collect and exchange up-to-date information on various aspects of the LGBTQ situation in Ukraine.<\/p>\n
The publication was prepared with the support of \u0410\u0406\u0406 Out Action Fund, lnc. We also thank Freedom House, Tides Foundation, Crown Agents, LSVD and individual donors for supporting our activities. Opinions expressed by the report\u2019s authors are solely theirs, and should not be considered as the official position of the donors to Nash Svit Center.<\/p>\n
Cover photo: Equality March 2025 in Kyiv, \u00a9Serhii Nuzhenko\/RadioSvoboda.org (RFE\/RL). All photos in this publication are taken from open sources.<\/p>\n
LGBT Human Rights Nash Svit Center<\/strong> \u00a9 Nash Svit Center, Kyiv, 2026<\/p>\n When using the report\u2019s materials, a reference to Nash Svit Center is mandatory. This report (in Ukrainian and English) is available on Nash Svit\u2019s website.<\/p>\n Since the beginning of 2025, no noticeable changes in the legislation related to the protection of LGBTQ rights in Ukraine happened, but the task of adopting relevant laws was included in the Roadmap for Ukraine’s accession to the EU. Similarly, the prohibition of discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation and gender identity has been included in few regulatory documents of various state institutions. The Ukrainian government has demonstrated its readiness to implement the recommendations of its international partners to achieve modern European standards in this area, which cannot be said about the Ukrainian parliament.<\/p>\n The main obstacle to the adoption of laws and policies to protect LGBTQ rights in Ukraine remains the influential leading Ukrainian Christian churches. They try their best to avoid public discussion of these topics, but when forced to respond to events related to LGBTQ issues, they demonstrate sharing the views of Russian propaganda.<\/p>\n With the support of human rights organisations and international partners of our country, the Ukrainian LGBTQ movement is conducting an active advocacy campaign to promote equality and combat violence and discrimination against the LGBTQ community, especially LGBTQ military. The attitude towards them in the Ukrainian military remains problematic, but with the help of the Gender Advisor of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the Military Ombudsman, the situation is improving.<\/p>\n The National Police, in general, provides effective protection for LGBTQ events from their aggressive opponents belonging to radical right-wing groups, but the situation with the investigation of hate crimes based on sexual orientation and gender identity remains extremely unsatisfactory.<\/p>\n The latest public opinion poll by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology confirms a steady trend of improving the attitude of Ukrainian society towards the protection of LGBTQ people\u2019s rights.<\/p>\n Since the beginning of 2025, there have been no fundamental changes in Ukrainian legislation regarding the protection of LGBTQ rights. The bills on civil partnership and on amendments to anti-discrimination and criminal legislation, previously submitted to the parliament, have not yet been considered. According to the Rules of Procedure of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, due to the resignation of the Cabinet of Ministers, governmental Bill 5488 (amendments to criminal, administrative and anti-discrimination legislation) was withdrawn. At the same time, a group of MPs registered a new Bill 13597 which differs little from withdrawn Bill 5488.<\/p>\n On February 11, 2025, the Verkhovna Rada withdrew homo \/ transphobic Bill 6325 from consideration. Meanwhile, Bill 6327, which proposes to introduce administrative liability for \u201cpropaganda of homosexuality and transgenderism,\u201d was included in the agenda of the parliament\u2019s current session \u2014 however, given the fate of all similar bills, its consideration and adoption seem extremely unlikely.<\/p>\n A number of government regulations and strategies adopted in 2025 included provisions prohibiting discrimination and combating hate speech on grounds of sexual orientation and gender identity, as discussed in more detail in the next \u00adsection of this report. However, in our assessment, they are mostly declarative in nature and do not affect the daily lives of LGBTQ people.<\/p>\n On January 23, 2025, the European Court of Human Rights issued a judgment in the case of Sverdlova and Shevchenko v. Ukraine<\/em> concerning the ban on holding an event on May 25, 2013, on protection of LGBTQ people\u2019s rights, imposed by the decision of the District Administrative Court of Kyiv City of May 23, 2013, following a lawsuit by the Kyiv City State Administration. The ECtHR decided that the plaintiffs were effectively deprived of the opportunity to appeal this decision, which concerned a violation of their right to peaceful assembly, to an appeal court, and found a violation of Article 13 of the European Convention on Human Rights \u201cRight to an effective remedy\u201d in conjunction with Article 14 \u201cProhibition of discrimination.\u201d<\/p>\n On June 10, 2025, the Desnyanskyi District Court of Kyiv, considering a claim for establishing a fact of legal significance, established the existence of a de facto marital relationship between two men who had previously married each other in the United States.<\/a>(1)<\/a><\/sup>https:\/\/reyestr.court.gov.ua\/Review\/128012542<\/a><\/span> The plaintiffs were same-sex partners who, according to Article 3 of the Family Code of Ukraine, constitute a family. Ukrainian laws allow such permanent partners to enjoy very limited rights of family members, but this requires prior establishment of the fact of their family relationship in court. Similar decisions regarding same-sex partners in Ukraine have been made before, but in this case the court established not only the fact of their family relationship, but also characterized them as a \u201cde facto marital relationship\u201d \u2014 which, however, does not mean legal recognition of their marriage concluded abroad.<\/p>\n The homophobic movement \u201cVsi razom!\u201d (\u201cAll Together!\u201d), which did not participate in the case, tried to appeal this decision in the Kyiv Court of Appeal, but was unsuccessful: the court decided that the appeal did not contain arguments referring to specific circumstances that would indicate the impact of the contested court decision on the rights, freedoms, interests and\/or obligations of the NGO \u201cVsi razom!\u201d.<\/a>(2)<\/a><\/sup>https:\/\/reyestr.court.gov.ua\/Review\/130357027<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has approved the Roadmaps for political and legislative reforms, the ultimate goal of which is Ukraine\u2019s accession to the EU. The Roadmap on the rule of law contains a separate Section 3.11 \u201cDiscrimination against LGBTIQ people\u201d which includes four actions aimed at addressing these issues:<\/p>\n The deadlines for implementing these measures are 2025-2026. The relevant bills have received the status of \u201cEuropean integration related\u201d that increases their chances of adoption.<\/p>\n However, based on the previous experience of the legislative work of the government and parliament, the adoption of the relevant draft laws by the Verkhovna Rada within the specified deadlines seems unlikely. The most problematic is the adoption of legislation on registered civil partnerships available to same-sex couples, which would grant them basic family and marital rights. Although the Ministry of Justice acknowledges its need, citing the ECtHR decision in the case of Maymulakhin and Markiv v. Ukraine<\/em>, the Chairperson of the Verkhovna Rada Ruslan Stefanchuk has already stated that currently legislative initiatives on civil partnerships are not a priority.<\/a>(3)<\/a><\/sup>https:\/\/hromadske.radio\/news\/2025\/04\/22\/tsyvilni-partnerstva-ne-u-prioryteti-stefanchuk<\/a><\/span> The situation can only be changed by active lobbying of bills on civil partnerships and on amendments to anti-discrimination and criminal legislation by international organisations and Ukraine’s foreign partners.<\/p>\n Unlike the parliament, the Ukrainian government demonstrates a fairly consistent policy of taking into account the rights and interests of LGBTQ people in various spheres of life. In particular, on September 15, 2025, the Prosecutor General of Ukraine issued Order 294 on approval of Amendments to the Regulation on the Unified Register of Pre-Trial Investigations, the Procedure for Its Formation and Maintenance, which stipulates that, when registering information about the commission of a crime, the police are obliged to indicate a possible motive for discrimination or intolerance and a specific protected characteristic, in particular sexual orientation and gender identity. However, the Prosecutor General’s Office is currently awaiting the adoption of amendments to the criminal legislation that would expand the list of protected grounds, and until then, it continues to register motives of intolerance only on the grounds already specified in the Criminal Code: race, nationality (i.e., ethnicity), and religious beliefs.<\/p>\n The Strategy for the Development of the Healthcare System for the Period until 2030, approved by an order of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, provides for the development of the healthcare system on the principles of equal and fair access to quality medical services without discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation and gender identity (hereinafter abbreviated as SOGI). Also, thanks to the advocacy efforts of the National LGBTI Consortium, changes affecting the problems of LGBTQ people were made to the State Strategy for Ensuring \u00adEqual Rights and Opportunities of Women and Men for the Period until 2030.<\/p>\n The prohibition of discrimination on SOGI grounds was included in the Strategy for the Development of the Public Prosecutor’s Office for 2025 \u20132028, as well as the in the codes of ethical conduct of the State Customs Service and the State Tax Service.<\/p>\n The National Agency of Ukraine for Civil Service has approved amendments to the General Rules of Ethical Conduct of Civil Servants and Local Government Officials, which stipulate that civil servants and local government officials are obliged to prevent hate speech on a number of grounds, including sexual orientation, in their activities.<\/p>\n The State Service for Food Safety and Consumer Protection became responsible for monitoring the content of job advertisements and their compliance with anti-discrimination legislation in this field \u2014 in particular, regarding the prohibition of discrimination on SOGI grounds in employment.<\/p>\n On the occasion of the International Day against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia , the Council for Human Rights, Gender Equality and Diversity under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, together with the embassies of foreign states, the EU Delegation and the Council of Europe Office in Kyiv, as last year, adopted a joint statement on commitment to ensuring equal rights, protecting human dignity and preventing all forms of discrimination. Deputy Minister Maryana Betsa, along with foreign diplomats, participated in the official opening of LGBT+ Veterans Hub.<\/p>\n Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Maryana Betsa at the opening of the LGBT+ Veterans Hub: \u201cProtecting the rights of the LGBT+ community is an integral part of our path to Europe\u201d.<\/p><\/div>\n <\/p>\n On September 25, for the first time in Ukraine\u2019s history, the government appointed an open gay, LGBTQ activist Ivan Verbytskyi, to a high position \u2014 Deputy Minister of Culture and Strategic Communi\u00adcations.<\/p>\n The National Council for Television and Radio Broadcasting \u2014 the national media regulator \u2014 issued a second injunction and subsequently twice fined the website of homo\/transphobic movement \u201cVsi razom!\u201d for publishing materials that spread negative stereotypes, support restrictions on rights, and may provoke violence against the LGBTQ community.<\/a>(4)<\/a><\/sup>https:\/\/webportal.nrada.gov.ua\/natsionalna-rada-oshtrafuvala-dvi-kompaniyi-ta-vynesla-7-prypysiv<\/a><\/span> NGO \u201cVsi razom!\u201d appealed both fines (40,000 and 88,000 UAH) in the Kyiv District Administrative Court which has not yet considered these cases.<\/p>\n The Commissioner for Human Rights of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, Dmytro Lubinets, and his office have been quite active in responding to cases of human rights violations and hate speech based on SOGI. In the Report on the State of Observance and Protection of Human and Civil Rights and Freedoms in Ukraine in 2024, the Ukrainian Ombudsman once again drew attention to the need to adopt a law on civil registered partnership and amendments to criminal and anti-discrimination legislation related to the protection of LGBTQ people\u2019s rights.<\/a>(5)<\/a><\/sup>https:\/\/ombudsman.gov.ua\/report-2024\/rivni-prava<\/a><\/span> The Commissioner\u2019s Secretariat responded to the refusal of the Kyiv printing house Dominanta Tekstyl to print the flag of the organisation \u201cLGBT+ Military and Veterans for Equal Rights,\u201d warning its director that the printing house\u2019s actions \u201chave signs of discrimination against consumers based on sexual orientation and gender identity\u201d that is prohibited by Ukrainian law.<\/a>(6)<\/a><\/sup>https:\/\/vsirazom.ua\/news\/ofis-ombudsamana-ukrayiny-zazihaye-na-svobodu-pidpryyemnyczkoyi-diyalnosti<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Understanding the danger from their aggressive opponents and the demands of wartime, organisers of public LGBTQ events coordinated their holding with local state and military administrations and the police in advance. As a rule, local authorities and the police tried to dissuade the organisers from their plans, but after lengthy negotiations they would agree to provide their security. However, one of the events planned as a part of KyivPride on the territory of an exhibition centre was cancelled due to pressure from the police and local authorities on the tenants of the pavilion where the event was to take place.<\/a>(7)<\/a><\/sup>https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/kyivpride\/posts\/765232815827262<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n In the vast majority of cases, however, the National Police in 2025 provided effective protection for LGBTQ events in various cities of the country from their aggressive opponents, who, for the most part, consisted of young men, often teenagers, under the banners of far-right organisations. In addition to the already traditional LGBTQ prides in Kyiv and Kharkiv, as well as the Kyiv queer film festival Sunny Bunny, the police, supposedly for the first time, ensured the more or less successful holding of public LGBTQ events in the West of the country \u2014 in Ivano-Frankivsk and Lviv.<\/a>(8)<\/a><\/sup>https:\/\/galka.if.ua\/z-superechkamy-ta-politsiieiu-u-frankivsku-vidkryly-lhbt-tsentr-insayt-foto<\/a>, https:\/\/suspilne.media\/lviv\/1042563-lgbtik-spilnota-provela-akciu-u-lvovi-ak-minuv-zahid<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Photo used by the National Police to illustrate the report of their raid on the gay nightclub Dark Room in Kyiv.<\/p><\/div>\n A blatant case of obviously discriminatory and hostile attitude towards LGBTQ people was demonstrated by law enforcement officers during a police raid on the gay nightclub Dark Room in Kyiv. One of the men, who were detained and accused of disobeying the police and petty hooliganism, appealed the administrative report drawn up against him in the Holosiivskyi District Court of Kyiv. At the trial, he and other victims of police actions spoke about insults, bullying, psychological pressure and physical violence, and other illegal actions against them by the police. The court not only closed the case against this person due to the absence of the body of an administrative offense, but also issued a separate ruling on the illegal actions of police officers. It was brought to the attention of the head of the Holosiivskyi Division of the Main Police Department in Kyiv, the head of the Main Police Department in Kyiv, and the head of the National Police of Ukraine in order to take appropriate response actions in this regard, about which they were to report to the court within one month from the date of its receipt.<\/a>(9)<\/a><\/sup>https:\/\/sud.ua\/uk\/news\/publication\/339982-izobrazhali-s-golovoy-petukha-izbili-ukrali-iphone-i-otvezli-v-ttsk-sud-priznal-nezakonnymi-deystviya-politsii-vo-vremya-reyda-v-gey-klube-v-den-traura<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n In September 2025, the President of Ukraine established the Office of the Military Ombudsman, headed by Olha Reshetylova, who had been previously appointed the Commissioner of the President of Ukraine for the Protection of the Rights of Military Personnel and Their Family Members. In an interview with Radio Kultura, she answered a question about the protection of the LGBTQ military personnel rights: \u201cProvisionally, the staffing list, which we are making, will include an entire unit that will deal with issues of gender equality and anti-discrimination. Of course, the issues of LGBT military personnel and their protection in the army are very important. We must welcome all categories of the population to the Armed Forces. It is clear that LGBT military personnel also defend our state, but due to certain stereotypes in society, they are exposed to oppression, and we have to address this\u201d.<\/a>(10)<\/a><\/sup>https:\/\/ukr.radio\/news.html?newsID=108539<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n The NGO \u201cUkrainian LGBT+ Military and Veterans for Equal Rights\u201d (abbreviated as \u201cMilitary LGBT+\u201d) conducted the first major study on the situation of LGBTQ military personnel, which revealed the problems they face in the army: harassment, psychological pressure, unequal treatment and ignoring of complaints by the command, etc., up to physical violence by fellow soldiers. However, this study did not have the opportunity to quantitatively assess the prevalence of such phenomena. At the same time, some respondents noted that they did not encounter pronounced homophobia in their military service, but on the contrary, received psychological support from comrades and commanders. In general, it may be stated that the situation of LGBTQ people in the Ukrainian military does not fundamentally differ from the attitude towards them in society as a whole.<\/a>(11)<\/a><\/sup>https:\/\/www.lgbtmilitary.org.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/PRINT-Army-UA-.pdf<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n “Military LGBT+” also reported a case where, thanks to an appeal to the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, and the Advisor on Gender Issues of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oksana Hryhorieva, a commander, who discriminated against non-binary soldier Evelyn from the International Legion, was demoted.<\/a>(12)<\/a><\/sup>https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/223191401708259\/posts\/1505353956825324<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Like last year, in 2025 the Kyiv City State Administration celebrated Pride Month by painting its Facebook logo in rainbow colours and declaring its consistent support for the policy of equality, tolerance, and accessibility.<\/a>(13)<\/a><\/sup>https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo?fbid=1141806021311338<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n During this year, we did not detected previously traditional appeals to the central government from local governments with demands to prevent the adoption of laws protecting LGBTQ rights or, conversely, proposals to adopt laws restricting them. At the same time, the Odesa and Lviv regional councils asked the Verkhovna Rada to denounce the Istanbul Convention \u201cdue to the demographic catastrophe\u201d.<\/a>(14)<\/a><\/sup>https:\/\/oblrada.od.gov.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/71-27-VIII.pdf<\/a>, https:\/\/vsirazom.ua\/news\/lvivska-oblrada-zaklykala-vladu-zahyshhaty-instytut-simyi-ta-denonsuvaty-stambulsku-konvencziyu<\/a><\/span> Supposedly, understanding futility of their appeals and their purely ritualistic nature, the members of these regional councils, however, formulated this request in the mildest possible form: \u201cin the case if the sufficiency of national legislation on combating violence is established, consider the possibility of initiating the process of denouncing the Convention.\u201d<\/p>\n Regarding the holding of what is likely was the first open LGBTQ event in the city, Ivano-Frankivsk Mayor Ruslan Martsinkiv, known for his repeated homophobic statements, once again noted that he did not support the LGBTQ community, but \u201cThere is current legislation that provides for holding certain events. Accordingly, if the law is not violated, people have the right to hold such events. [\u2026] The law is the law, and we must abide by it. But we openly and frankly express our position \u2014 regarding both the Ukrainian language and Christian values.\u201d<\/a>(15)<\/a><\/sup>https:\/\/galka.if.ua\/u-demokratychniy-kraini-kozhen-maie-pravo-vyslovliuvatysia-martsinkiv-pro-lhbt-podii-u-frankivsku<\/a><\/span> At the same time, he thanked members of the radical right-wing organization Tryzub for attempting to disrupt the opening of an LGBTQ community centre in Ivano-Frankivsk.<\/a>(16)<\/a><\/sup>https:\/\/kurs.if.ua\/marczinkiv-podyakuvav-molodi-yaka-namagalasya-zirvaty-vidkryttya-czentru-dlya-lgbt<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n The registration of Bill 13597 (amendments to criminal, administrative and anti-discrimination legislation) demonstrated that an informal but effective group in support of equal rights for LGBTQ people has been formed in the Verkhovna Rada, to which new members of the parliament are gradually being attracted. This bill was initiated by 32 MPs, mainly from the Servant of the People and Holos factions, while the initiative groups of previous bills of this kind were at least half as small. The leaders of this informal group and its most active members are Inna Sovsun (Holos) and Olena Shulyak, the head of the Servant of the People party.<\/p>\n The most unexpected thing, however, was that the initiators of Bill 13597 was joined by Heorhii Mazurashu MP, previously infamous for his homophobic and transphobic proposals. It is difficult to explain his motivation, but it is clear that support for initiatives to protect the rights of LGBTQ people in the Ukrainian parliament is gradually growing.<\/p>\n It is noteworthy that principled opponents of equal rights for LGBTQ people in the Verkhovna Rada \u2014 particularly, Ihor Fris and Yulia Tymoshenko \u2014 refrained from public comments on the relevant legislative initiatives in 2025. Yulia Tymoshenko and Danylo Hetmantsev MP (Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Finance, Tax and Customs Policy, Servant of the People faction) expressed their indignation at the holding of a queer film festival in Kyiv on the eve and during Orthodox Easter and called on its organisers to cancel the event,<\/a>(17)<\/a><\/sup>https:\/\/t.me\/s\/getmantsevdanil\/9206<\/a>, https:\/\/www.rbc.ua\/rus\/news\/timoshenko-zaklikala-skasuvati-priznacheniy-1744967649.html<\/a><\/span> but neither the festival itself nor its opponents attracted much public attention.<\/p>\n On June 11, a member of the Lviv Oblast Council from the European Solidarity party, a priest of the OCU Mykola Bilyak, registered a petition to the Mayor of Lviv and members of the Lviv City Council demanding \u201cto prevent events organised by LGBT communities from being held in Lviv\u201d directed against a public action planned for June 14 to protect the rights of transgender people.<\/a>(18)<\/a><\/sup>https:\/\/leopolis.news\/deputat-yes-zaklykav-sadovogo-zaboronyty-marsh-lgbt-petycziya-nabrala-neobhidnu-kilkist-golosiv<\/a><\/span> The petition received the required 500 votes, but has never been considered, and the planned event successfully took place under police protection.<\/p>\n A homophobic statement was made as well by the head of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Council Mykola Lukashuk, reacting to the words of Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson that Ukraine should regulate the legislation on same-sex partnerships within the framework of European integration. Although the Swedish Prime Minister did not say anything about same-sex marriages, Mykola Lukashuk saw in his words the imposition of those and the \u201cLGBT agenda\u201d in general, which, in his opinion, contradicts the cultural identity and social values of Ukraine.<\/a>(19)<\/a><\/sup>https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/nbankr\/posts\/pfbid0qJr6etW1QHRKG7rWe659uhdkzWnkmQY5xiA8KLzq9ykodi8P95ZKfscQmafTAS2hl<\/a><\/span> As in the case of the queer film festival, these statements did not receive much publicity and public reaction.<\/p>\n Along with the activation of the LGBTQ movement, its opponents from the far-right organisations also became more active, consistently trying to block and disrupt all public LGBTQ events in cities such as Kyiv, Kharkiv, Lviv, and Ivano-Frankivsk. However, everywhere they encountered effective police protection of these events \u2014 even in Lviv and Ivano-Frankivsk, where previously local authorities and police tried in every way to avoid their duty to ensure freedom of peaceful assembly of the LGBTQ community. The police, however, did not pay attention to direct calls for violence against LGBTQ that were publicly voiced by right-wing radicals \u2014 for example, during the Volunteer March in Kyiv on March 14, a group of young people under the flags of far-right organisations chanted \u201cTo all LGBT supporters \u2014 death, death, death!\u201d to which the police accompanying the march did not react in any way.<\/a>(20)<\/a><\/sup>https:\/\/ccl.org.ua\/news\/grupa-ozon-provela-monitoryng-myrnogo-zibrannya-marsh-do-dnya-dobrovolczya<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n The police did not react in any way to the chants of “Death, death, death to all LGBT supporters!” by participants of the Volunteer March in Kyiv on March 14, 2025.<\/p><\/div>\n Public and political support for aggressive homophobic calls and actions in Ukraine, however, remains low, and those are increasingly associated with the aggressor country \u2014 Russia. This can be illustrated by an incident happened on August 18, during the farewell ceremony to the deceased soldier, artist, and anarchist David Chichkan in the center of Kyiv, on Maidan Nezalezhnosti. A group of soldiers from the Russian Volunteer Corps (which is fighting for Ukraine, but consists of Russian citizens) led by its commander Denis Nikitin attacked Ukrainian LGBTQ soldiers who were holding a rainbow flag (David Chichkan was an ally of the LGBTQ community). Left-wing anarchists, who were present at the farewell, sprayed the attackers with pepper spray, and everyone present as well as many commentators on social networks explained to attackers that Ukraine is not Russia, and we here are not happy to see demonstration of our enemy\u2019s traditional values.<\/a>(21)<\/a><\/sup>https:\/\/mezha.net\/ua\/bukvy\/kyiv-funeral-clash-over-lgbt-flag-sparks-controversy<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n The most active and visible opponent of the LGBTQ community in Ukraine remains the Civic Movement \u201cVsi razom!\u201d represented by its leader, journalist and Pentecostal preacher Ruslan Kukharchuk (nothing is known about the other members of this organisation). The website of \u201cVsi razom!\u201d is the main source of homo \/ transphobic publications then being distributed by Ukrainian ultra-conservative and religious media, for which it has already been fined twice by the national media regulator, and Kukharchuk himself is the organiser and leader of various public events supporting discrimination and inciting hatred against his LGBTQ fellow citizens.<\/p>\n The farewell to the deceased volunteer, artist, and anarchist David Chychkan in the centre of Kyiv, on Independence Square, August 18, 2025.<\/p><\/div>\n Such was, for example, the so-called March of Tradition \u2014 an action of opponents of the Equality March, which both simultaneously took place in Kyiv on June 14, 2025. As last year, the presence of \u201cVsi razom!\u201d movement supporters at this event was almost invisible \u2014 several hundred demonstrators consisted, for the most part, of young people under the flags of far-right groups, who hid their faces under masks, and some of them even openly demonstrated the Nazi salute. Similarly, Ruslan Kukharchuk led a small protest against the bill on the criminalization of hate crimes on SOGI grounds, which took place under the Ministry of Justice building on May 13. The crowd of this action also consisted of young people under the flags of various far-right groups.<\/p>\n Participants in the March of Tradition\u2014 a counter-protest by opponents of the Equality March in Kyiv on June 14, 2025 \u2014 did not hide their far-right and neo-Nazi views.<\/p><\/div>\n Another direction of Ruslan Kukharchuk’s activity \u2014 organising appeals from local governments to state authorities with homophobic demands \u2014 has been showing a clear decline in recent years; in 2025, if they took place at all, it was completely imperceptible.<\/p>\n The media paid a significant attention to the case of the Ukrainian Catholic University\u2019s refusal to provide a dormitory to a student who posted a rainbow flag emoji on her Instagram page (this incident is described in more details in the next section of this report. This case attracted a lot of public attention and led to numerous discussions and debates on topics that Ukrainian churches would prefer to ignore. It cannot be said that any particular opinion dominated these discussions, but this was presumably the first time when the attitude of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church and Ukrainian churches in general towards LGBTQ people has provoked such a lively public discussion and condemnation from the believers of these churches themselves \u2014 until now, the voice of liberal believers has been almost inaudible.<\/p>\n In 2025, some businesses and institutions in Ukraine did not, as before, paint their logos in rainbow colours during the Pride Month, particularly mobile operators Kyivstar, Lifecell, and Vodafone as well as taxi service Uklon \u2014 apparently, due to the influence of the transphobic and homophobic policies of the new US government. At the same time, this action was again supported by the Kyiv City State Administration, Privatbank, the household appliances and electronics retail corporation Comfy, TV channels Novyi and Kyiv24, the bookstore Ye, the Odesa National Art Museum, the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation, the Ukrainian Institute, state postal service Ukrposhta, the largest marketplace Prom.ua, and many others.<\/p>\n Another public opinion survey, conducted in early October 2025 by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology (abbreviated as KIIS) at the request of Nash Svit Center, like similar surveys in the three previous years, demonstrated a trend of slow but steady improvement in Ukrainian society’s attitude towards LGBTQ people and the protection of their rights.<\/a>(22)<\/a><\/sup>https:\/\/gay.org.ua\/publications\/AReport_NashSvit_21Oct2025.pdf<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/gay.org.ua\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/How-do-you-feel-about-LGBT-homo-bisexual-and-transgender-people-in-general-eng1.png” show_in_lightbox=”on” _builder_version=”3.0.76″ saved_tabs=”all” \/][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.0.76″]<\/p>\n In particular, over the past three years, the number of people in Ukraine who have a generally negative attitude towards LGBTQ persons has remained virtually unchanged and constitutes about a third of the population. Meanwhile, the share of those who have a generally positive attitude towards LGBTQ people has increased by 4.5 points over the past year, which is a statistically significant indicator. The vast majority (slightly less than half of the population) are indifferent.<\/p>\n At the same time, even a negative attitude towards LGBTQ people does not necessarily mean a denial of their human dignity and rights. Sociologists of the KIIS note, \u201cIt is also important to understand that, as before, the category of citizens who have a \u2018negative\u2019 attitude towards LGBT people is not actually crystallized consistent opponents. As other survey results have shown, those who have a \u2018negative\u2019 attitude towards LGBT people mostly welcome their participation in defending Ukraine from Russian aggression, more than half of them support equal rights for LGBT people, and more than a third are even positive or at least indifferent to the idea of a registered partnership.\u201d<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/gay.org.ua\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/In-your-opinion-should-LGBT-people-in-Ukraine-have-the-same-rights-as-other-citizens-of-our-country-eng2.png” show_in_lightbox=”on” _builder_version=”3.0.76″ saved_tabs=”all” \/][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.0.76″]<\/p>\n The share of those, who believe that LGBT people should have the same rights as other citizens of Ukraine, in 2025 was 78.1%, which is 7.7 points more than in 2024 and 14.4 points more than in 2022. This opinion prevails among all socio-demographic categories into which sociologists divided respondents (gender, age, region, type of settlement, education, employment, family well-being), accounting for at least 72%.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/gay.org.ua\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/Do-you-support-the-introduction-of-registered-partnerships-for-same-sex-couples-similar-to-ordinary-marriage-but-without-the-right-to-joint-adoption-of-children-eng3.png” show_in_lightbox=”on” _builder_version=”3.0.76″ saved_tabs=”all” \/][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.0.76″]<\/p>\n The introduction of registered civil partnerships for same-sex couples in 2025 was supported by 29.8% of respondents, 30.1% were indifferent, and 35.1% were against it. Thus, only slightly more than a third of Ukrainians oppose it now. If in 2022 the gap between those who support civil partnerships for same-sex couples and those who oppose it was 18.3% in favour of the latter, in 2025 it decreased to 5.3%. Among younger age groups, the number of civil partnership supporters already outweighs the number of its opponents (for respondents aged 18-29 \u2014 33.4% versus 29.2%; 30-39 \u2014 40.3% versus 28.4%, respectively).<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/gay.org.ua\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/How-do-you-feel-about-the-participation-of-LGBT-people-in-defending-Ukraine-from-Russian-aggression-eng4.png” show_in_lightbox=”on” _builder_version=”3.0.76″ saved_tabs=”all” \/][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.0.76″ custom_css_main_element=”margin-bottom: 0.9em !important” background_layout=”light” border_style=”solid”]<\/p>\n In 2025, about 70% of respondents had a positive attitude towards the participation of LGBT people in resisting Russian aggression. The highest rate of negative attitude was 12% (for residents of villages and Western regions of Ukraine as a whole).<\/p>\n Leading Ukrainian churches, united in the All-Ukrainian Council of Churches and Religious Organisations, continue to demonstrate absolute rejection and intolerance towards LGBTQ people, oppose any steps to protect their rights, and avoid public discussions on such topics. However, they have to respond to certain events related to LGBTQ issues, the public discussion of which demonstrates both the confusion of church leadership in the face of today’s challenges and an ambiguous attitude towards these issues among ordinary believers and clergy.<\/p>\n In April 2025, the odious Metropolitan Luka of Zaporizhzhya (Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Moscow Patriarchate, shortened as UOC (MP)) appealed to religious leaders of Ukraine to speak out against the Sunny Bunny queer film festival in Kyiv, which this year fell on Easter.<\/a>(23)<\/a><\/sup>https:\/\/spzh.eu\/ua\/news\/85876-ijerarkh-upts-zvernuvsja-do-relihijnikh-lideriv-ukrajini-cherez-lhbt-kinofestival<\/a><\/span> Although several unpopular politicians expressed their indignation at such an (accidental) coincidence of a Christian holiday and an LGBTQ event, no one among prominent religious figures responded to Metropolitan Luka’s call, not even his colleagues \u2014 bishops of the UOC. It should be noted that currently the UOC (MP) enjoys a very negative reputation in Ukrainian society and religious circles due to its refusal to sever ties with the mother Russian Orthodox Church, and Metropolitan Luka is considered one of its most conservative and pro-Russian hierarchs.<\/p>\n The leadership of the main competitor of the UOC (MP), the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (shortened as OCU), however, was publicly outraged by the holding of a small rally to protect the rights of LGBTQ people beside the building of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, which is located near the St. Michael’s Golden-Domed Monastery of the OCU: \u201cThe Kyiv Metropolitanate of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine considers the chosen place, time and purpose of this event as a deliberate cynical anti-church provocation aimed at its scandalous advertising.\u201d<\/a>(24)<\/a><\/sup>https:\/\/www.pomisna.info\/uk\/vsi-novyny\/zayava-kyyivskoyi-mytropoliyi-pravoslavnoyi-tserkvy-ukrayiny-3<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n A rally for the rights of LGBTQ people in front of the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs that offended the religious feelings of the OCU leadership, June 7, 2025.<\/p><\/div>\n However, the attitude towards LGBTQ people in the ranks of the OCU clergy is not so unambiguous. Scandalously known for his far-right and anti-European views, the OCU priest Yaroslav Kulyk expressed the opinion that the Russian attack on Kyiv on June 17 was \u201cGod\u2019s retribution\u201d for the LGBT pride march that took place in the capital on June 14, which caused a lot of indignant comments and even theological discussions, including from his fellow priests.<\/a>(25)<\/a><\/sup>https:\/\/sofiyske-bratstvo.org\/chy-buly-rakety-rukoyu-gospodnoyu<\/a><\/span>\u00a0 Shortly after this, Father Yaroslav announced his departure from the OCU due to his categorical disagreement with the \u201ccourse, methods of governing the Church, as well as the openly biased, unfair and impolite attitude\u201d towards him by Metropolitan Epiphany, the head of the OCU, and moved to the tiny Ukrainian Orthodox Church \u2014 Kyiv Patriarchate under the leadership of Patriarch Filaret.<\/a>(26)<\/a><\/sup>https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/yaroslav.yasenets\/posts\/pfbid0C2kg4NQ5cSkSLig1ek5ACEYx5aR5WG7W2mxrVLfRzxqP9vxGfzoQs9oebqSfmGMYl<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n At the same time, the priest of the Ternopil Diocese of the OCU, Oleksiy Filyuk, quite popular for his videos on social networks, stated that, although he does not question the biblical teaching about the sinfulness of homosexual marriages and would not agree to marry a same-sex couple, he does not see anything terrible in the very fact of its existence: \u201cIf Hanka<\/a>(27)<\/a><\/sup>A diminutive of Hanna, a popular Ukrainian female name.<\/span> wants to sleep with Hanka, there is nothing terrible in it. Let her do as she pleases.\u201d<\/a>(28)<\/a><\/sup>https:\/\/glavcom.ua\/country\/society\/populjarnij-svjashchennik-bloher-rozpoviv-chi-povinchaje-odnostatevu-paru-1049895.html<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n A very large public attention and heated discussions were caused by a Facebook post of Natalia Vorozhbyt (a writer, screenwriter, and director), in which she told that her daughter Paraskeva Kurochkina, who entered the Department of Humanities of the Ukrainian Catholic University (shortened as UCU) in Lviv, was denied accommodation in a collegium (a special dormitory) intended for participants in the program \u201cChristian Spirituality in the Postmodern Age.\u201d<\/a>(29)<\/a><\/sup>https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/natalia.vorozhbyt\/posts\/pfbid0ZdoGipPqZG1eV7ifWwK159VGhtYBgHBk5FdNWZVFd3Mtk6B8CyXezPSxShQ9eNZ8l<\/a><\/span> The reason for the refusal, voiced in a telephone conversation by a representative of the university, was that few years ago Paraskeva had posted on her Instagram page an emoticon of a rainbow flag. Natalia Vorozhbyt stated that she and her daughter were deeply offended by this attitude from the university administration, but decided not to file an official complaint, and Paraskeva Kurochkina refused to enter the UCU and instead became a student at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.<\/p>\n This incident was so widely covered by the Ukrainian media and hotly discussed on social networks that the university administration was forced to publicly respond to it and apologize twice to Vorozhbyt and Kurochkina, but only for poor communication. The public was divided in their attitude towards the incident and the homophobic views of the UCU leadership and the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (shortened as UGCC) as a whole, which owns this educational institution. Many believers of the UGCC stated that they do not share the extremely negative and uncompromising attitude of their church towards LGBTQ people, which cannot be justified by adherence to biblical doctrine.<\/p>\n Among those who supported the victims and condemned the homophobia prevalent in the UGCC was the well-known liberal priest of this church, Nazarii Zatorskyi, who serves outside Ukraine in the Paris diocese.<\/a>(30)<\/a><\/sup>https:\/\/zaxid.net\/skandal_dovkola_uku_gniv_rozbitih_ilyuziy_n1618566<\/a><\/span> Although the UGCC leadership has never condemned the numerous openly homophobic and anti-LGBTQ statements made by its clergy, in this case Bishop Hlib Lonchyna, the Apostolic Administrator of the Paris diocese, stated that Father Nazarii’s views \u201ccontradict the doctrine of the Catholic Church and cause confusion and scandal among the faithful,\u201d and therefore forbade him, under pain of punishment, to express opinions that cast \u201cdoubt on the truths of the doctrine clearly set forth in the Catechism of the Catholic Church.\u201d<\/a>(31)<\/a><\/sup>https:\/\/credo.pro\/2025\/09\/387387<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Public support for the rights of LGBTQ people and condemnation of homophobia by UGCC priest Nazarii Zatorskyi (pictured) has sparked anger and threats from the church leadership.<\/p><\/div>\n This case also drew attention to the legal problems of protection against discrimination and ensuring freedom of religion in Ukraine. The law \u201cOn the principles of preventing and combating discrimination in Ukraine\u201d provides that the general principle of prohibiting restrictions on rights and freedoms on certain grounds may contain exceptions \u201cwhen such a restriction has a legitimate, objectively justified goal, the means of achieving which are appropriate and necessary.\u201d Theoretically, a police investigation and\/or a court should have established whether the restriction of Paraskeva Kurochkina\u2019s rights by the UCU leadership was justified in this case. However, the victim\u2019s refusal to file an official complaint does not create legal grounds for considering this incident in civil proceedings. Currently, Ukrainian legislation contains a single provision on punishment for discrimination that can be applied in such cases \u2013 Article 161 \u201cViolation of the equality of citizens depending on their racial, national, regional affiliation, religious beliefs, disability, and on other grounds\u201d of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. However, it is the object of a private prosecution \u2014 that is, the police can only initiate a criminal investigation under this article if there is a complaint from the injured party.<\/p>\n It is typical that neither the sharp criticism from its own liberal believers nor the noticeable softening of the attitude towards LGBTQ people by the leadership of the Catholic Church as a whole has so far affected the irreconcilably hostile attitude towards them from the leadership of the UGCC, which is shared by the rest of the leading Christian denominations of Ukraine. On September 17, the Head of the UGCC, Major Archbishop Svyatoslav, headed a regular meeting of the Council of Christian Churches of Ukraine \u2014 a consultative and advisory body created by the leaders of Ukrainian Christian churches to represent and coordinate their activities. Its participants once again repeated the Kremlin narratives, emphasizing \u201cthe importance of protecting public morality in Ukraine during the war and the inadmissibility of adopting laws that, in fact, are aimed at destroying the institution of the family and restricting freedom of expression under the slogan of \u2018fighting discrimination\u2019\u201d \u2014 that is, the adoption of any laws and decisions aimed at protecting the rights of LGBTQ people.<\/a>(32)<\/a><\/sup>https:\/\/sobor.com.ua\/news\/narada-3<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n The main tasks of the Ukrainian LGBTQ movement since the beginning of the full-scale invasion remain participation in the resistance to Russian aggression and survival in war conditions as well as advocacy for the adoption of laws and policies to protect LGBTQ rights as part of Ukraine’s accession to the EU.<\/p>\n Azovstal defender Oleksandr Demenko was elected the new head of the NGO Ukrainian LGBT+ Military and Veterans for Equal Rights.<\/p><\/div>\n On the initiative of the co-founder and first head of the NGO \u201cUkrainian LGBT+ Military and Veterans for Equal Rights\u201d Viktor Pylypenko, the general meeting of the organisation elected its new head Oleksandr Demenko, a defender of Azovstal who spent 20 months in Russian captivity. Viktor Pylypenko was elected his deputy, Chairperson of the Executive Committee. In 2025, \u201cMilitary LGBT+\u201d continued its advocacy activities to protect the interests of LGBTQ military personnel and the entire Ukrainian LGBTQ community, but also began to engage in specific human rights activities. In particular, thanks to their legal support, Evelyn Aschenbrenner, a non-binary person from the USA (pronouns they \/ their), who served in the International Legion from March to December 2022, where they faced transphobic attitudes from the battalion command, was able to achieve concrete solutions to correct the situation: the leadership of the International Legion were informed and instructed to prevent discrimination, and the chief of staff of the relevant military unit was brought to disciplinary responsibility and demoted.<\/a>(33)<\/a><\/sup>Please see footnote 12.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Following a complaint by the \u201cMilitary LGBT+\u201d about discriminatory actions by the printing house Dominanta Tekstyl (they refused to print the organisation\u2019s flag), the Secretariat of the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights warned the management of the printing house about the illegality of their actions and suggested eliminating the identified violations. More effective was the appeal by the \u201cMilitary LGBT+\u201d to the National Council for Television and Radio Broadcasting with a complaint about the homophobic publication of the website \u201cVsi razom!\u201d about the aforementioned incident with the printing house \u2014 the national media regulator imposed a fine of 40,000 UAH on the violator.<\/a>(34)<\/a><\/sup>Please see footnotes[4]<\/a>,[6]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n The first major study of the situation of LGBTQ people in the Ukrainian military, conducted with the support of the NGO \u201cUkrainian LGBT+ Military and Veterans for Equal Rights,\u201d identified the problems faced by Ukrainian LGBTQ military and veterans and drew public attention to them.<\/a>(35)<\/a><\/sup>Please see footnote 11<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n The LGBTQ movement has significantly intensified its activities in Western Ukraine, where it was previously almost invisible due to the hostile attitude of local authorities as well as churches and radical right-wing organisations influential in this conservative region. Although the latter do not give up attempts to disrupt any LGBTQ events, thanks to effective police protection NGO Insight managed to successfully open a community centre in Ivano-Frankivsk. \u00a0In Lviv, albeit on the second attempt, for the first time in recent years NGOs Feminist Workshop and Bilkis managed to hold a public mass action to protect the rights of the LGBTQ+ community \u201cTo be yourself is a right.\u201d<\/a>(36)<\/a><\/sup>Please see footnote 8<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n On June 14, 2025, under effective police protection, a mass public action to protect the rights of LGBTQ people took place in Lviv for the first time in recent years.<\/p><\/div>\n Similarly, thanks to the active actions of the police, radical right-wing activists in Lviv did not manage to completely disrupt the presentation of book by Alina Sarnatska \u201cWho united love and courage\u201d about the experience of LGBTIQ+ people in the war, organised jointly by the publishing house Vydavnytsvo and the NGO ALLIANCE-GLOBAL. However, due to the obvious threat from their aggressive opponents, the participants of the presentation had to be evacuated under police protection after its conclusion.<\/a>(37)<\/a><\/sup>https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/alliance.global.group\/posts\/pfbid0TvtZeZMDQ2HQCwkqAJA4Q3z2UynTAdAXLS7BTf3YZQi2KTJu7exEDzyb88D3aXMjl<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n The Third Kyiv Queer Film Festival Sunny Bunny this year took place without any notable incidents. The police provided its constant security and blocked a group of aggressive young men under flags of far-right groups who tried to disrupt its opening.<\/a>(38)<\/a><\/sup>https:\/\/zmina.info\/news\/festyval-kvir-kino-sunny-bunny-v-kyyevi-bilya-kinoteatru-zhovten-stalasya-sutychka<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n The Equality March 2025 in the Ukrainian capital, organised by KyivPride, was more massive and lasted longer than the last year. It is worth noting the hard work of its team with local authorities and the police, thanks to which it became possible to hold this and several other events within the framework of the Pride Month \u2014 representatives of the Kyiv administration and law enforcement agencies, traditionally, tried not to ensure freedom of peaceful assemblies for the LGBTQ community, but to dissuade the organisers from holding those events, intimidating them with possible terrorist acts by aggressive radical right-wing opponents and shifting responsibility for their possible consequences from the aggressors to their potential victims.
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<\/a>SUMMARY<\/h2>\n
<\/a>1. LEGISLATION AND JUDICIARY<\/h2>\n
<\/a>2. STATE AND LOCAL AUTHORITIES, LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES<\/h2>\n
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<\/a>3. POLITICS, MASS MEDIA AND SOCIETY<\/h2>\n
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<\/a>4. CHURCHES AND RELIGIOUS ORGANISATIONS<\/h2>\n
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<\/a>5. LGBTQ COMMUNITY<\/h2>\n
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