Luydmila Kuzmenko, logistician
“I don’t understand why there is a scandal about sexual minorities. Everyone has their own opinion. It is worthless to try to impose it on others. If someone is part of a minority; you either communicate with this person, or you don’t. But it’s nonsense to tell him ‘you cannot be like that.’”
Valentina Vaytseska, librarian
“The society is becoming more tolerant, but in Ukraine, it is hard because of the economic situation. People live in hard conditions. When people are unemployed, when salaries are paid late, it can affect tolerance because the people get embittered.”
Vincenzo Jansoldaty, businessman
“Recently I see from my environment that it is getting worst, especially with LGBT. For religious minorities, we always had a tolerant society except for the relationship with the Russian Orthodoxes, but it is more a political question. But in general, we have a very liberal society comparing to our neighbors.”
Sergei Li, retiree
“The society is more tolerant now. I have been living here for my whole life, and I remember how the relations with minorities were. I remember from my youth how even movements like punks were not accepted. But now, it is considered as a normal phenomenon”.
Asoleya Ivanovna, teacher.
“I think that these people have rights. They have their choice. They can decide how they want to live further, with who to meet and how to meet. Everyone has the right to live and the right to be happy.”
