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A court has banned what would have been Ukraine’s first gay-pride demonstration.

Ahead of World AIDS Day on Saturday, international organizations have urged the Ukrainian government to increase funding for treatment and do more to prevent HIV from spreading from high-risk groups into the mainstream population.

The U.N.’s human rights office has urged Ukraine to rethink a much-criticized bill that envisions jail time for people who disseminate positive information about gays.

Ukrainian lawmakers have given tentative approval to a much-criticized bill that envisions jail time for people who disseminate positive information about gays.

A commission advising the Ukrainian government is targeting "SpongeBob Squarepants" and other children’s TV shows for "promoting homosexuality," among other purported hidden agenda items, such as pornography & promoting drug use.

Ukraine lawmakers may pass an anti-gay gay bill that would prohibit "propaganda of homo-sexuality."

Leaders of Ukraine’s gay community say homophobic violence and sentiment are on the rise in the country as the gay movement pushes for rights.

With an eye toward severe criticism from the European Union, Ukrainian lawmakers failed to vote on a "gay gag rule," similar to that passed in some Russian areas, which would have prohibited individuals from discussing LGBT rights in public.

Sir Elton John recently wrote an article for the British newspaper The Guardian, where he criticized a potential Ukrainian law that would prohibit the media from reporting on LGBT rights.

Gay Serbs publicly denounced what they felt to be the government’s blind eye to their concerns, including an incident of anti-gay violence in which a lesbian was attacked by a knife-wielding youth who police promptly let go.