Policy Brief. Queering Displacement: The State of the Ukrainian LGBTQ+ Community During the Russian Full-Scale Invasion (For GPPI)

A scene from the Palanca-Maiaki-Udobnoe border crossing point, between the Republic of Moldova and Ukraine, on March 1, 2022, as people fled Russia’s military offensive  | Photo: UN Women/Aurel Obreja/Flickr; CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has had a drastic impact on the lives of internally displaced people (IDPs). But one subgroup of these Ukrainians is particularly vulnerable: IDPs who identify as LGBTQ+.  I prepared the following brief in English and Ukrainian for the Global Public Policy Institute.