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Ukraine’s LGBTQ+ soldiers call for more rights – as Russia forces minorities into active service

By Nick Mayhew, Lecturer in Russian, University of Glasgow

Russian authorities have been rounding up gay men and coercing them to fight in Ukraine, according to some recent reports.

The Russian leader has long vilified the gay community in Russia and introduced a raft of new anti-LGBTQ+ laws while promoting supposedly “traditional” masculinity as part of his narrative of…

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