With war, Kyiv pride parade becomes a peace march in Warsaw


              People take part in the 'Warsaw and Kyiv Pride' marching for freedom in Warsaw, Poland, Saturday, June 25, 2022. Due to Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine the 10th anniversary of the equality march in Kyiv can't take place in the usual format in the Ukrainian capital. The event joined Warsaw's yearly equality parade, the largest gay pride event in central Europe, using it as a platform to keep international attention focused on the Ukrainian struggle for freedom. (AP Photo/Michal Dyjuk)
            
              People take part in the 'Warsaw and Kyiv Pride' marching for freedom in Warsaw, Poland, Saturday, June 25, 2022. Due to Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine the 10th anniversary of the equality march in Kyiv can't take place in the usual format in the Ukrainian capital. The event joined Warsaw's yearly equality parade, the largest gay pride event in central Europe, using it as a platform to keep international attention focused on the Ukrainian struggle for freedom. (AP Photo/Michal Dyjuk)
            
              People take part in the 'Warsaw and Kyiv Pride' marching for freedom in Warsaw, Poland, Saturday, June 25, 2022. Due to Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine the 10th anniversary of the equality march in Kyiv can't take place in the usual format in the Ukrainian capital. The event joined Warsaw's yearly equality parade, the largest gay pride event in central Europe, using it as a platform to keep international attention focused on the Ukrainian struggle for freedom. (AP Photo/Michal Dyjuk)
            
              People take part in the 'Warsaw and Kyiv Pride' march for freedom in Warsaw, Poland, Saturday, June 25, 2022. Due to Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine the 10th anniversary of the equality march in Kyiv can't take place in the usual format in the Ukrainian capital. The event joined Warsaw's yearly equality parade, the largest gay pride event in central Europe, using it as a platform to keep international attention focused on the Ukrainian struggle for freedom. (AP Photo/Michal Dyjuk)
            
              People take part in the 'Warsaw and Kyiv Pride' march for freedom in Warsaw, Poland, Saturday, June 25, 2022. Due to Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine the 10th anniversary of the equality march in Kyiv can't take place in the usual format in the Ukrainian capital. The event joined Warsaw's yearly equality parade, the largest gay pride event in central Europe, using it as a platform to keep international attention focused on the Ukrainian struggle for freedom. (AP Photo/Michal Dyjuk)
            
              People take part in the 'Warsaw and Kyiv Pride' marching for freedom in Warsaw, Poland, Saturday, June 25, 2022. Due to Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine the 10th anniversary of the equality march in Kyiv can't take place in the usual format in the Ukrainian capital. The event joined Warsaw's yearly equality parade, the largest gay pride event in central Europe, using it as a platform to keep international attention focused on the Ukrainian struggle for freedom. (AP Photo/Michal Dyjuk)
            
              People take part in the 'Warsaw and Kyiv Pride' marching for freedom in Warsaw, Poland, Saturday, June 25, 2022. Due to Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine the 10th anniversary of the equality march in Kyiv can't take place in the usual format in the Ukrainian capital. The event joined Warsaw's yearly equality parade, the largest gay pride event in central Europe, using it as a platform to keep international attention focused on the Ukrainian struggle for freedom. (AP Photo/Michal Dyjuk)
            
              Warsaw's mayor Rafal Trzaskowski, second right, and European Commissioner for Equality, Hanna Dalli, right,  take part in the 'Warsaw and Kyiv Pride' marching for freedom in Warsaw, Poland, Saturday, June 25, 2022. Due to Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine the 10th anniversary of the equality march in Kyiv can't take place in the usual format in the Ukrainian capital. The event joined Warsaw's yearly equality parade, the largest gay pride event in central Europe, using it as a platform to keep international attention focused on the Ukrainian struggle for freedom. (AP Photo/Michal Dyjuk)
            
              People take part in the 'Warsaw and Kyiv Pride' marching for freedom in Warsaw, Poland, Saturday, June 25, 2022. Due to Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine the 10th anniversary of the equality march in Kyiv can't take place in the usual format in the Ukrainian capital. The event joined Warsaw's yearly equality parade, the largest gay pride event in central Europe, using it as a platform to keep international attention focused on the Ukrainian struggle for freedom. (AP Photo/Michal Dyjuk)
            
              Warsaw's mayor Rafal Trzaskowski, second right, and European Commissioner for Equality, Hanna Dalli, right,  take part in the 'Warsaw and Kyiv Pride' marching for freedom in Warsaw, Poland, Saturday, June 25, 2022. Due to Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine the 10th anniversary of the equality march in Kyiv can't take place in the usual format in the Ukrainian capital. The event joined Warsaw's yearly equality parade, the largest gay pride event in central Europe, using it as a platform to keep international attention focused on the Ukrainian struggle for freedom. (AP Photo/Michal Dyjuk)
            
              People take part in the 'Warsaw and Kyiv Pride' marching for freedom in Warsaw, Poland, Saturday, June 25, 2022. Due to Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine the 10th anniversary of the equality march in Kyiv can't take place in the usual format in the Ukrainian capital. The event joined Warsaw's yearly equality parade, the largest gay pride event in central Europe, using it as a platform to keep international attention focused on the Ukrainian struggle for freedom. (AP Photo/Michal Dyjuk)
            
              People take part in the 'Warsaw and Kyiv Pride' marching for freedom in Warsaw, Poland, Saturday, June 25, 2022. Due to Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine the 10th anniversary of the equality march in Kyiv can't take place in the usual format in the Ukrainian capital. The event joined Warsaw's yearly equality parade, the largest gay pride event in central Europe, using it as a platform to keep international attention focused on the Ukrainian struggle for freedom. (AP Photo/Michal Dyjuk)
            
              People take part in the 'Warsaw and Kyiv Pride' marching for freedom in Warsaw, Poland, Saturday, June 25, 2022. Due to Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine the 10th anniversary of the equality march in Kyiv can't take place in the usual format in the Ukrainian capital. The event joined Warsaw's yearly equality parade, the largest gay pride event in central Europe, using it as a platform to keep international attention focused on the Ukrainian struggle for freedom. (AP Photo/Michal Dyjuk)
            
              FILE - LGBT activists and their supporters gather for the first-ever pride parade in the central city of Plock, Poland, Saturday Aug. 10, 2019. Despite the war in Ukraine, the country's largest LGBT rights event, KyivPride, is going ahead on Saturday, June 25, 2022. But not on its native streets and not as a celebration of gay pride. It will instead join Warsaw's yearly Equality Parade, using it as a platform to keep international attention focused on the Ukrainian struggle for freedom. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski, File)
            
              FILE - People take part in the annual Gay Pride parade, under the protection of riot police in Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, Sept. 19, 2021. Despite the war in Ukraine, the country's largest LGBT rights event, KyivPride, is going ahead on Saturday, June 25, 2022. But not on its native streets and not as a celebration of gay pride. It will instead join Warsaw's yearly Equality Parade, using it as a platform to keep international attention focused on the Ukrainian struggle for freedom. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File)
            
              FILE - People take part in the annual Gay Pride parade, under the protection of riot police in Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, Sept. 19, 2021. Despite the war in Ukraine, the country's largest LGBT rights event, KyivPride, is going ahead on Saturday, June 25, 2022. But not on its native streets and not as a celebration of gay pride. It will instead join Warsaw's yearly Equality Parade, using it as a platform to keep international attention focused on the Ukrainian struggle for freedom. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File)
            
              FILE - A woman holds a poster depicting Russian President Vladimir Putin during a protest in front of the Russian embassy in Madrid, Spain, Friday Aug. 23, 2013 against Russia's new law on gays. Russia passed a law in 2013 that bans the depiction of homosexuality to minors, something human rights groups views as a way to demonize LGBT people and discriminate against them. (AP Photo/Paul White, File)
            
              FILE - Riot police detain a protester who is trying to stop Ukraine's first gay pride demonstration in Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, May 25, 2013. Despite the war in Ukraine, the country's largest LGBT rights event, KyivPride, is going ahead on Saturday, June 25, 2022. But not on its native streets and not as a celebration of gay pride. It will instead join Warsaw's yearly Equality Parade, using it as a platform to keep international attention focused on the Ukrainian struggle for freedom. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File)
            
              FILE - People take part in the annual Gay Pride parade, being protected by riot police in Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, June 18, 2017. Despite the war in Ukraine, the country's largest LGBT rights event, KyivPride, is going ahead on Saturday, June 25, 2022. But not on its native streets and not as a celebration of gay pride. It will instead join Warsaw's yearly Equality Parade, using it as a platform to keep international attention focused on the Ukrainian struggle for freedom. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File)
            
              FILE - Gay rights activists carry rainbow flags as they march during a May Day rally in St. Petersburg, Russia, Wednesday, May 1, 2013. Russia passed a law in 2013 that bans the depiction of homosexuality to minors, something human rights groups views as a way to demonize LGBT people and discriminate against them. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky, File)
            
              FILE - Riot police stops Orthodox believers who are trying to stop Ukraine's first gay pride demonstration in Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, May 25, 2013. Despite the war in Ukraine, the country's largest LGBT rights event, KyivPride, is going ahead on Saturday, June 25, 2022. But not on its native streets and not as a celebration of gay pride. It will instead join Warsaw's yearly Equality Parade, using it as a platform to keep international attention focused on the Ukrainian struggle for freedom. (AP Photo/Sergei Chuzavkov, File)
            
              FILE - Russian police officers detain a gay rights activist with his flag during an attempt to hold a gay pride parade in Moscow, Russia, Sunday, May 27, 2012. Russia passed a law in 2013 that bans the depiction of homosexuality to minors, something human rights groups views as a way to demonize LGBT people and discriminate against them. (AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel, File)
            
              FILE - Gay and lesbian rights activists perform during the annual Gay Pride parade, protected by riot police in Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, June 17, 2018. Despite the war in Ukraine, the country's largest LGBT rights event, KyivPride, is going ahead on Saturday, June 25, 2022. But not on its native streets and not as a celebration of gay pride. It will instead join Warsaw's yearly Equality Parade, using it as a platform to keep international attention focused on the Ukrainian struggle for freedom. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)
            
              FILE - A Russian Gay Rights protester is taken away by riot police officers in Moscow, Russia, Saturday, May 16, 2009. Russia passed a law in 2013 that bans the depiction of homosexuality to minors, something human rights groups views as a way to demonize LGBT people and discriminate against them. (AP Photo/Roustem Adagamov, File)
            
              FILE - People take part in the Equality Parade, the largest gay pride parade in central and eastern Europe, in Warsaw, Poland, Saturday June 19, 2021. Despite the war in Ukraine, the country's largest LGBT rights event, KyivPride, is going ahead on Saturday, June 25, 2022. But not on its native streets and not as a celebration of gay pride. It will instead join Warsaw's yearly Equality Parade, using it as a platform to keep international attention focused on the Ukrainian struggle for freedom. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski, File)
            FILE - Anti-LGBT protesters burn an LGBT flag at the International Amnesty building during the opening ceremony of the Pride Week in Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, June 13, 2017. Despite the war in Ukraine, the country's largest LGBT rights event, KyivPride, is going ahead on Saturday, June 25, 2022. But not on its native streets and not as a celebration of gay pride. It will instead join Warsaw's yearly Equality Parade, using it as a platform to keep international attention focused on the Ukrainian struggle for freedom. (AP Photo/Sergei Chuzavkov, File)
With war, Kyiv pride parade becomes a peace march in Warsaw