Bogdan Globa (born 26 May 1988) is a Ukrainian
LGBT rights activist
A list of notable LGBT rights activists who have worked to advance LGBT rights by political change, legal action or publication. Ordered by country, alphabetically.
Argentina
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who claimed asylum in the United States in 2016 and in 2018 founded ProudUkraine.
In 2009, Globa co-founded the charity Point of Support, later working as its CEO. After completing a course titled "Advocacy of LGBT rights in the USA", he founded TERGO, a support organization for parents of LGBT+ children.
On 7 November 2013, speaking during parliamentary hearings on European integration and anti-discrimination legislation, Globa was the first openly LGBT person to address
Verkhovna Rada
The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine ( uk, Верхо́вна Ра́да Украї́ни, translit=, Verkhovna Rada Ukrainy, translation=Supreme Council of Ukraine, Ukrainian abbreviation ''ВРУ''), often simply Verkhovna Rada or just Rada, is the ...
, the Ukrainian parliament.
On 26 May 2015 the
Holosiivskyi District
Holosiivskyi District ( uk, Голосіївський район, translit.: ''Holosiivs’kyi raion'') is an urban district of the city of Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine.
Holosiivskyi District was created during changing of administrative divisi ...
Court of Kyiv opened proceedings to establish the existence of discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation on the suit of Bogdan Globa to the
Democratic Alliance (Ukraine)
Democratic Alliance ( uk, Демократичний альянс, Russian: Демократический альянс) is a pro-European political party in Ukraine, registered in September 2011, formed on a basis of an anti-corruption platform ...
. The case is pending before the
European Court of Human Rights
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR or ECtHR), also known as the Strasbourg Court, is an international court of the Council of Europe which interprets the European Convention on Human Rights. The court hears applications alleging that a ...
.
In early 2021, Bogdan married his partner in a private ceremony in Washington, DC. They currently reside in New York City.
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Living people
1988 births
People from Zachepylivka
Ukrainian LGBT rights activists
Ukrainian gay men
21st-century Ukrainian LGBT people
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