Ahead of World Pride 2023 in Sydney, SBS Russian gathered stories of the Ukrainian LGBTQI+ community members. These are stories of people who were forced to flee the war and the Russian occupation. In the first episode of the short series, SBS Russian talks to Marina, director of the public organization "Inaya" in Kherson.
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SBS Russian would like to thank Quarteera, Berlin-based organization for Russian-speaking LGBTQI+ people. Quarteera hosts its own Russian-language podcast "Queer-talk" detailing life stories of LGBTQI+ people from Ukraine, Belarus and Russia.
SBS Russian would like to remind our listeners that it might be impossible to promptly check the accuracy of information during the war.
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