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Hundreds upon hundreds of cultural sites across Ukraine have been damaged since Russia’s full-scale invasion. More than 500 locations, including libraries, archives, museums and historical buildings, suffered damage. It’s not just physical heritage that Russia is bombing and shelling: the Kremlin is also waging a disinformation war to denigrate Ukrainian memory and identity.

Q***r activists and artists are urgently working to ensure LGBTQIA+stories and cultural heritage aren’t lost. At the heart of this effort is the ***r.war.archive.ua, a grassroots initiative documenting q***r life during the war.

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„History Unit: Reframing Q***r Narratives in Media“ is a project of the “Education Agenda NS-Injustice” funded by and .

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The N**i soldier embodies performative masculinity in a literal sense. His actions and image convey a specific cultural understanding of masculinity: machismo, militarism, heroism, and whiteness. He is both cruel and unapproachable, yet he can also evoke unbridled sexual desire – as if he has just stepped off the set of an er*tic photo shoot or gay p**nography film. This essay traces how fascist culture both suppressed and appropriated homosexuality to forge identities through violence and the othering of difference. 

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„History Unit: Reframing Q***r Narratives in Media“ is a project of the “Education Agenda NS-Injustice” funded by and .

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In the first two decades of independence, q***r people in Ukrainian Donetsk became aware of and understood themselves while being surrounded only by information from print media, television, or their immediate social circles. And there, the necessary resources were lacking. Most of what the press published about LGBTQI+ people were scandalous reports. This piece tracks how this situation and the lived experiences of q***r people have changed since then.

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„History Unit: Reframing Q***r Narratives in Media“ is a project of the “Education Agenda NS-Injustice” funded by and .

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