MP urges Lviv mayor to call off pride march

LGBT flags. Photo: DepositPhotos

Ukrainian MP Yevhen Petruniak has appealed to Lviv Mayor Andriy Sadovyi and Head of the Lviv Regional Military Administration Maksym Kozytskyi, calling on them to immediately consider canceling the “LGBTQ+ Pride” event scheduled for June 7.

The parliamentarian stressed that amid Russia’s full-scale invasion and continuing missile attacks on Lviv, any large public gathering poses a direct threat to public safety and places an unnecessary burden on the police and emergency services.

According to the deputy, such events carry a purely political message and are aimed at dividing society in the rear, making them vulnerable to exploitation in enemy information and psychological operations. Petruniak argued that the modern LGBT movement has moved beyond defending human rights and has become an aggressive political project intended to undermine traditional values and the country's demographic security.

“We must speak the truth openly: all these LGBT marches are not about rights – they are about ideological aggression against the Ukrainian family, traditions, and the demographic future of the nation,” the lawmaker said.

He also warned about what he described as the promotion of transgender ideology among children and teenagers, claiming that it leads to “hormonal mutilation” and turns young people into lifelong patients of pharmaceutical companies.

Petruniak further stated that most people with homosexual inclinations do not wish to be associated with what he called “grant-funded activism” and do not support public demonstrations. He urged the Lviv authorities to protect the foundations of moral and social norms.

As previously reported by the UOJ, employees of the Dutch Embassy in Kyiv raised an LGBT flag above the embassy building.

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