Ayman Eckford is a UK-based freelance journalist as well as an independent analyst for the Solid Info think tank. A transgender person and refugee from Ukraine, Ayman's work covers the LGBT community, Russia, disability rights, and big issues throughout Europe.
In the years since the Russian invasion, the Russian-occupied territories in Ukraine have seen a dramatic backslide in LGBT rights and tolerance.
Derek Huffman moved his family to Russia to escape “LGBT propaganda.” Now he’s been sent to the front lines in Ukraine.
“With the unlawful deportation of a gay makeup artist, I see in the US troubling flashbacks to the country I fled: Russia.”
LGBT refugees are among the most motivated, patriotic, and productive newcomers. Turning them away is self-sabotage.
The Assad family’s 53-year dictatorship of Syria is over. But will the new regime be any better for LGBT people?
How conspiracies about “Anglo-Saxons”, LGBT people, and Jews power the Russian war machine in Ukraine.
As state propaganda hijacked Russian LGBT activism, it took a special kind of mascot to claw through the noise.
"As a queer refugee from Ukraine, I take the UK’s Southport riots personally. So should all LGBT people."
