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The Calgary Institute for Humanities LGBTQ2S+ Lecture: Ukraine, Russia, and the Struggle for LGBTQ Freedom

Oxford Professor of Modern Russian History Dr. Dan Healy examines the role anti-LGBTQ campaigns & anti-Western homophobia play in the framing of Putin’s war in Ukraine and how LGBTQ politics have evolved in Ukraine. How did Putin weaponize the Kremlin’s homophobia? How have Ukrainian queers and queers across the region responded to this threat?

• In Person

Presented by The Calgary Institute for the Humanities and UCalgary Alumni