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Sixty-two Ukrainian parliamentarians signed a petition demanded from Kyiv's mayor to ban a planned gay pride parade later this month.

Sixty-one lawmakers signed a petition urging Ukraine’s capital city’s mayor to ban a gay-pride parade in Kyiv scheduled for 25 May.

Pavlo Unhuryan, parliamentary and leader of the right wing of Ukraine’s Family Movement, announced today (20 May) that the petition requests a total ban on gay-pride parades ‘and similar events in Kyiv in May-June 2013.’

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