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‘Queens of Joy,’ First LGBTQIA+ Doc to Be Broadcast in Ukraine, Unveils Trailer, Director Pleas for ‘Safeguarding’ of Queer Soldiers (EXCLUSIVE)
'Queens of Joy' exposes discrepancy in rights of LGBTQ+ soldiers fighting in Ukraine; the director pleads for 'safeguarding' measures.
In 2022, a few months after the Russian invasion of Ukraine that resulted in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian war that started in 2014, filmmaker Olga Gibelinda saw herself capturing the opposite of sorrow: joy. Currently, gay marriage is illegal in Ukraine, meaning that when soldiers are killed, their partners are not immediately informed, do not have the right to decide what happens to their bodies and are also not entitled to state support. Changing Ukrainian constitution is prohibited during martial law, making it impossible to legalize same-sex marriages during the war, but activists have organized petitions asking for the recognition of civil partnerships in the meantime.
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