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More protections for LGBTQ+ people in Ukraine · PRIDE Daily

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  Speaker 3: Happy International Pronouns Day. Coming up, a long overdue apology.
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  Speaker 3: First though, more protections for LGBTQ plus people in Ukraine.
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  Speaker 3: President Zelensky has approved a national human rights strategy which
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  Speaker 3: designates queer people as a vulnerable group when it comes
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  Speaker 3: to discrimination and hate crimes. This plans to update laws,
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  Speaker 3: investigate more incidents, provide better training to police and judges
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  Speaker 3: and improve access to free legal help for victims. Ukraine's
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  Speaker 3: become much more pro-LGBTQ plus since Russia invaded. due to
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  Speaker 3: the visibility of the thousands of out queer soldiers putting
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  Speaker 3: their lives at risk.
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  Speaker 4: Ukraine wants equality and there are members of the LGBTQ
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  Speaker 4: community fighting on the front line. They want the same
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  Speaker 4: rights as everyone else and basically it's about love.
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  Speaker 3: Former Canadian ambassador to Ukraine Natalka Simok speaking to Kyiv Independent.
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  Speaker 3: Homosexuality is legal in Ukraine which is predominantly Christian but
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  Speaker 3: there's no same-sex marriage. The human rights strategy is part
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  Speaker 3: of the country's efforts to eventually be part of the
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  Speaker 3: European Union. Next, the daughter of bigoted American TV evangelist
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  Speaker 3: Jim Backer, who died earlier this month, says she's sorry
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  Speaker 3: for all the hurt he caused to LGBTQ plus people.
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  Speaker 3: Tammy Sue had been estranged from the 86-year-old since 2022.
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  Speaker 3: Her father used his platform to encourage anti-queer hate over
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  Speaker 3: many decades. She says it breaks her heart to know
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  Speaker 3: he was responsible for millions of LGBTQ plus people suffering
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  Speaker 3: through rejection, depression and suicide. And Isaac Humphries, the first
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  Speaker 3: out gay player in Australia's National Basketball League, is retiring.
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  Speaker 3: The 28-year-old's been forced to quit due to a knee injury,
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  Speaker 3: so he'll be taking on a different role with Adelaide
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  Speaker 3: 36ers behind the scenes tomorrow. A video of Isaac coming
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  Speaker 3: out to his teammates in 2022 went viral. Since then,
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  Speaker 3: he's been named joint captain of his club and played
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  Speaker 3: for Australia's national side. No time to tell you that.
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  Speaker 3: Ireland's non-binary and intersex recognition bills being debated again in
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  Speaker 3: Parliament later. You've got the first of Chapel Rowan's two
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  Speaker 3: LGBTQ plus fundraising gigs in Los Angeles. And Puerto Rico's
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  Speaker 3: 8th National Transvisibility March has taken place in the capital,
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