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First National Conference of LGBT
Organizations and MSM Projects,
Kyiv, 2008
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as well as members of LGBT community of Ukraine among the state authorities at the
national level.
In April 2008, at the First National LGBT Conference LGBT organizations and activists
have signed a memorandum on the need to create a Federation of LGBT Organizations
of Ukraine, participants of the conference also discussed draft documents regulating
activities of the projected Federation. Efforts to create a national association that
could consolidate LGBT organizations and represent their interests at the highest level
continue.
LGBT movement is becoming increasingly more important factor in the
socio-political life of Ukraine. Lesbians and gays do not stand apart
from the socio-political processes. Lesbian and gay organizations now
operating in Ukraine will consistently stand for the legal civic rights of
LGBT citizens. LGBT movement will succeed in ensuring equal rights and
opportunities, for there are many arguments “for“ and not a single rational
argument “against“ them.