But many fleeing Ukraine have made their way to Poland, named one of the least gay-friendly countries on the continent by ILGA-Europe, where hundreds of provinces and towns declared themselves “LGBT-free” until the EU threatened to cut off their funding last year. The Russian invasion has been particularly scary for Ukraine’s LGBTQ+ community because of Russia’s abysmal record on gay rights, including its 2013 law against “gay propaganda” that has been used to jail gay rights groups.
