Petro Poroshenko is the first Ukrainian president to support homosexuals - American press
Famous American publication Mashable notes that Petro Poroshenko became the first Ukrainian president to openly support homosexual pride on the streets of Kyiv. Before him, none of the heads of Ukraine had done this.
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President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko, the publication notes, expressed support for the rights of LGBT (homosexual-transgender community), confirming his approval of the equality march on the Kyiv embankment.
“I will not participate in it,” Poroshenko reassured journalists, “but I don’t see any reason to interfere with this march, because this is the constitutional right of every citizen of Ukraine.”
The publication notes that not a single president in the entire post-Soviet space has shown such open support for holding a homosexual celebration. Taras Karasiychuk, the organizer of the planned gay march, praised Poroshenko's words, saying he was "joyfully shocked by his words."
The US Ambassador to Ukraine Jeffrey Pyatt also supported the procession of minorities. On Twitter, he said: “I strongly welcome Poroshenko’s announcement to ensure security for Saturday’s march in Kyiv.”
Well-known political strategist Vladimir Granovsky notes in Facebook: “I think that at the gay parade itself, there were really nothing but gays and lesbians! The backbone of this parade was made up of fighters for “human rights” from public organizations supported by foreign funding. It’s tough there, they don’t pay money for that.”
Kiev journalist Vladimir Bogun is sure that the situation itself “with today’s equality march in Kyiv reeks of outright hypocrisy. “I don’t care at all,” he writes, “what was carried out there and under what slogans. But thousands of cops brought from all over Ukraine defended LGBT rights and prevented a direct clash between homosexuals and right-wing radicals. But these same right-wing radicals are calmly attacking peaceful protests throughout Ukraine under different slogans. And almost all defenders of the right to one’s own opinion, including European ones, stick their tongues into one big bull…”.
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